Not insulted. PDs comment about people weathering the storm in the apartment building that was washed away triggered the memory of hearing about the hurricane party, which got me googling, and I looked it up, and linked to it without enough of an explanation in my post, (the word “Party” came from me, I should have said, “yes, that I remember that, and I heard it was a hurricane party, and check this out, apparently it was an urban legend helped along by Walter Cronkite!”, instead of “that party never happened”. Which triggered PD’s reply, and my attempt at an explanation, and so on. My apologies.

My apologies, too.

I was just, like, "did I say that??"

Absolutely no big deal. We're all noting the power of storm surge and its lethality if you choose to ride it out.

It's blowing up a big storm out there right now. I just checked the radar and it's an outer band of Hurricane Laura.

We're five hundred miles from where it made landfall. Wow.

Just checked the radar. We're about three hundred miles from the center of what's left of Laura. That's still pretty darn big.

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Originally posted by jodi:
How things drift from the truth as they get retold.

I remember getting a vivid demonstration of that from the game of "telephone" in a junior high school science class. We formed a chain around the room, the teacher read from a script to person 1, who told person 2, etc. The last person was then instructed to say aloud what they'd just heard. Then the teacher read what she'd told person 1.

That kind of demonstration leaves a lasting memory.

We did the same thing in grade school. Telephone is a great way to show how stories get changed.

God's will?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry...2f01c5b6cf66b2b51d00

They voted to keep the statue, but the storm took it down.