So… my little corner of the world got hit by two separate mega storms over the last 5 days. Worst two storms in either 30 or 60 years (depending on who you listen to) – both in the same week. Both at or above hurricane strength. But what did all the damage was huge waves and a major storm surge. My house, located up on steep hill overlooking the ocean, is fine as are my family’s two houses down near the ocean but not directly on it. Houses down right on the water were damaged, docks destroyed, boats smashed, etc. Sadly, the facility where the ferry service out to my island is located on the mainland was basically destroyed. That’s going to be inconvenient as hell and costly to rebuild. I keep a car over there on the continental USA, parked in a small parking garage next to the ocean. The garage was smashed (even though made out of concrete!) by huge waves – concrete chunks rained down on the cars and the floor of the garage buckled. The garage completely flooded. Amazingly, my car was the only one that survived unscathed (though it did get flooded) and they were able to clear enough debris to get it out of there. It started right up, I tell ‘ya – nothing stops a Toyota! Though the power stayed on on my island (we have backup generators) it was out for days on the mainland. Yesterday afternoon I took a nap during the second storm and when I woke up I thought I was in the 1980s – no internet, no land line phone, and no cell phone service. All only came back up and running a short while ago.