Even if it kills us. We knew there was something special going on when we saw the fish massing on shore and literally tossing themselves towards the Pelicans that swooped in from all sides to eat dinner. Dolphins, a perfect swell on the tide, a blue sky and 85F in mid-October, how perfectly impossible in England at this time of year. I thought then that this was too good to be true. At midnight the rain started and Hurricane Irene had arrived.
Hurricanes are strange.
One imagines something like a tornado, but this was just a huge weather system that spread right across Florida and the Gulf bringing tropical torrential rain, flooding roads and farms. We knew we'd better leave a day early to get to Miami airport. We drove for 300 miles in this torrent of rain and wouldn't you know it. A tyre blows at 80 mph. Actually Kit and me thought something had hit the roof of the car, neither one of us thought of the tyre until I lost steering capability.