Maybe 1966..........the ship left Hong Kong, heading for Phillipines and got caught by typhoon.
Prior to that........after Fishery Protection patrol, was in midst of Storm Force 10 between Iceland and Scotland.

On land, in UK......."Great Storm of 1987", I was driving Newcastle to Cambridge through it!

I’m told there was a blizzard in 1996, but I don’t remember it (my mind tells me there was one in ’94, and maybe there was, but ’96 was worse—so maybe that’s what I’m thinking of, and I got the years confused. But, as I said, I don’t really remember it.\

I do, however, vividly remember last year’s two hurricanes (one of which isn’t even worth mentioning), an earthquake (which I felt but had no clue what it was, whereas some people living near me didn’t even feel it), and a Northeaster (in October, of all things). The hurricane that does deserve mention dumped massive amounts of rain, and flooded several basements and other facilities. One of the local nursing homes had to pump water from their elevator, and one of the hospitals had to evacuate due to the flooding. Fortunately, I live on the fifth floor in a building that wasn’t effected at all, but the administrator didn’t come to work the following Monday as she was pumping water out of her basement. (I later received a letter from the hospital stating that a computer had to be destroyed due to water damage, and that somehow my health information had been compromised because of it.

I may not have had flooding, but that was one of the worst thunderstorms I remember. It came early in the morning, and it woke me up. Being too tired to move, I lay there and wished fervently for it to be over.

I hadn’t even connected the storm with the hurricane until, sometime later, I was speaking to my mother on the phone. She asked me something about whether I had power and said, “good, because you just survived Hurricane Lee.”

I was looking at the news later, and was astonished by the devastation being reported. Folks used to talk about Hurricane Agnes (1972 being bad (it was dubbed “Hurricane Agony” by the governor), but now I think the topic will be Lee. A comparison of the two found that Hurricane Lee was far more destructive (lots of water damage, whereas Hurricane Irene, from that same year, produced destructive winds—though not even half as bad as experts were forecasting).

When the plane hit that field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, there was some anxiety in my family because my great aunt and uncle lived out there, and we didn’t know where they were in relation to the action. Fortunately, they were nowhere near. (That day was all the more traumatic for me as I somehow knew something bad was going to happen around 7, before I even got to school).