Just Named - Tropical Storm now Hurricane Otto - the season's last lick??

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1. Oh man - you just gave me flash backs

1985 Hurricane Kate hit this area (Tallahassee, Florida) as a Cat 1 storm just a few days before Thanksgiving (night of November 21).

We had no power for a week and even though we had stockpiled water for the horses and for the house we ran out on the fifth day. With over twenty horses on the farm, that was a serious problem!

I loaded a bunch of 55 gallon drums into the horse trailer, drove to a friend's house where they had power, and filled all those drums. Drove back to the farm, filled the water troughs, backed the trailer next to the house so we could dip water for the toilets out, and took a break. Just as I sat down the power came back on.

I've got to handle it to the power company, they have some great timing.