Reply #18: The sea is full of weird weather, and so am I

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Once while patrolling a sailing regatta in NY harbor, the entire western sky over NJ just turned black. I turned on my radar real fast and took a fix.
Before I was done, we were in FOG... I mean fog that you could not see the rail from the control station in a 41' boat.
Then the wind hit.
The radio was full of maydays.
Several of the racing sailboats were capsized or dismasted. They could not get their sails down fast enough. There were people in the water all over the place, small boats were capsized right and left.
And we had to respond slowly, looking out for hazards ourselves.
In less than half an hour, it was clear again.
Bizzare.

Lost the roof of my house in 58 in Kansas City, when I was a kid. That was a mess.

Got caught in a freak snowstorm on Mt. Washington, NH on Labor Day weekend 83... I had the right gear and just spent a cold night. Two died that night on the other side of the ridge.

Blizzards... yeah, but I don't worry about them too much. Hurricanes, way overrated as destructive forces, unless you are rich and have a beach house.
Earthquakes... not really weather, but lived in CA in 64 and saw the earth move like waves on the ocean.