How many have lived through REAL DOOM?

Part 2 is on Saturday. :)

It's actually called Apocalypse: The Second World War..very good..

Yeah, the smell. I will never forget it. I have dreamed the smell.

Sorry to hear that AC

When I think back on it, I'm amazed at how the days went by and I just remember certain parts of it. A T & T set up a phone bank up the street where we could call long distance to relatives or friends to let them know that we were OK - for free, if you can believe it. The Post Office wouldn't deliver mail to individual houses any more - they installed the kind of group mailboxes as are common in apartment or condominium complexes and you had to pick up your mail there instead of getting home delivery (we're talking about a single-family home neighborhood here, not an apartment complex). After some weeks, a literal convoy of power company vehicles from all over the United States converged on our area. They began lining up on the main roadways to repair the major trunk lines, then gradually worked their way to side roads, replacing poles, transformers, wires, etc. It was as though they were rebuilding the whole infrastructure from scratch. A day or so after the storm left, I remember seeing the trunk lines from Turkey Point (nuclear power station in south Florida) laying in the road, with all the power poles broken off at the base. It was truly astonishing to see. . .

It was nothing like Andrew, but I lived close to where hurricane Charlie hit, but my home didn't get much damage. We took a drive into Punta Gorda where the eye passed over, and it was pretty much obliterated.

I remember I was taking pictures of all the damage, flattened homes, flipped cars, etc. Then we drove by this old woman in her front yard, her house had been completely destroyed, and she was just staring at the rubble... Then she saw me with the camera and gave me the most evil look I've ever gotten, can't blame her at all for that.

So thankfully I wasn't at the center of the storm but it was still a shock to see... Gas stations running out of fuel, people fighting over generators at hardware stores, National Guard curfew imposed at night, people lining up for fresh water... crazy stuff.