When I was about 10 years old, my parents “shipped me off” to spend a week at my grandparents home in Topping, Virginia, a small town close to the Chesapeake Bay and about an hour southeast of Richmond. They lived in an old home without air conditioning on a small farm where my grandfather worked...
I’ve mostly lived on the coast since I was born. I remember all the big hurricanes, Bertha, Fran, Floyd, Bonnie, Irene, Florence, Dorian etc. There were a few more in there I forgot the names of. When I was a kid, a big storm coming was an exciting thing. The power would go out, the...