Thanksgiving is one of, if not the most dangerous time of the year to travel. It's not just a matter of "Over the River and Through the Wood's to Grandmother's House We Go" anymore. People "zip" from one place to another by car, bus, plane and possibly snowboard...
However,
"...just 14 years after the initial Thanksgiving celebration in Plymouth Colony... ...New England ...[was] battered by what was later dubbed "The Great Colonial Hurricane" — the first major storm suffered by the first North American settlers..."
"The Puritans, after landing at Plymouth Rock, endured disease, brutal winters and battles with the natives. But their biggest test roared up the coast from the south, an unprecedented and terrifying tempest that convinced rattled residents the apocalypse was imminent.
And why not? The transplanted Europeans knew almost nothing of hurricanes, an entirely foreign phenomenon. Their fears of approaching death were reinforced when a lunar eclipse followed the natural disaster."
"The settlers easily could have packed up and gone home," said Nicholas K. Coch, a professor of geology at Queens College and one of the nation's foremost hurricane experts. "It was an extraordinary event, a major hurricane, and nearly knocked out British culture in America."
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2006-11-19-plymouth-hurricane_x.htm
...and you think YOU have it bad, when some "pinhead" in a "monster, gas--guzzling, SUV" is "tailgating" you on 295 on your way to grandma's...
ebsi
However,
Blast from the past; first hurricane hit Pilgrims in 1635
"...just 14 years after the initial Thanksgiving celebration in Plymouth Colony... ...New England ...[was] battered by what was later dubbed "The Great Colonial Hurricane" — the first major storm suffered by the first North American settlers..."
"The Puritans, after landing at Plymouth Rock, endured disease, brutal winters and battles with the natives. But their biggest test roared up the coast from the south, an unprecedented and terrifying tempest that convinced rattled residents the apocalypse was imminent.
And why not? The transplanted Europeans knew almost nothing of hurricanes, an entirely foreign phenomenon. Their fears of approaching death were reinforced when a lunar eclipse followed the natural disaster."
"The settlers easily could have packed up and gone home," said Nicholas K. Coch, a professor of geology at Queens College and one of the nation's foremost hurricane experts. "It was an extraordinary event, a major hurricane, and nearly knocked out British culture in America."
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2006-11-19-plymouth-hurricane_x.htm
...and you think YOU have it bad, when some "pinhead" in a "monster, gas--guzzling, SUV" is "tailgating" you on 295 on your way to grandma's...
ebsi
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). If you, or your extended relations (or anyone else for that matter) do not fit into any of the above--mentioned classes of cretins who tailagte or ride bumpers, then I am most puzzled why those nouns evidently irritate you...
For shame! :jeffd:
