I love the smell of a good hurricane

[starroute]

We're getting the remnants of Ivan here in eastern PA right now, and I've just been outside breathing in the aroma.

Hurricanes always smell of the sea. We're 100 miles inland, but if I go out during a hurricane and close my eyes, I can imagine I'm at the beach.

Yum.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. I smelled the Hurricane , the smell of the sea Thursday night - breezy

Ivan just blew us over down here in NC earlier today . Hope everything stays sturdy in PA for ya .

[iamjoy]

2. Glad YOU Enjoy It

but when you are in an area that got hit with 90 mph winds, hurricanes smell, alright, but we aren't thinking of the ocean. Immediately after the storm, we are too busy lamenting the damage, relieved it wasn't worse or if it was worse that we are all okay. Don't want to think about the people who weren't...we aren't thinking about any clean, just rained or ocean smell. After a day or so, it smells of rot, mold, mildew, sweat...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. Didn't smell much like ocean here...

Smelled like a sweaty old storm with an angry sky...a peek of sunshine here and there, but those threatening clouds were there all day. What a grouch Ivan was!

[whistle]

3. I'm most gratified that you can romanticize the experience with...

...those of us who have been flogged by not one, not two, but now three hurricanes in the last month. I know you mean well and God bless you. However, I am a Central Florida resident and you are the second person from PA today who has offered their affirmation about the benefits that hurricanes can bring. It's sort of like me suggesting that the Monongahela River overflowing its banks in the spring would be an excellent opportunity for the residents to go surfing. :shrug:

If you can make it some time, I invite you to come to Florida right before our next big hurricane and you can stand close to the Beach and fill your lungs with salt water. I'm kidding :tinfoilhat: I love the smell of the ocean air and you are correct, hurricanes do bring that inland and it is important to remember that God/nature always provides a balance of both the good and the not so good. It is our job to recognize both. Thank you for letting me vent.

[starroute]

6. Beauty grows out of shit -- that's just the balance of nature

The most beautiful sunsets I've ever seen came in a year after a major volcanic eruption somewhere in Indonesia. Should I not have appreciated their beauty because it grew out of an event that originally caused suffering?

For that matter, the sunshine that makes Earth an ideal place for life also makes on Mercury impossible and heats Venus to the temperature of an oven.

The balance of nature seems to require that there be "too much" someplace in order to have "just right" someplace else.

Next winter, when we're up to our ears in snow and ice, you can sit back and enjoy your Florida climate. For now, please accept that what we pay over the winters in shoveling and auto accidents, we do have a right to get back in hurricanes that have been reduced by distance to the soothing flow of a tropical waterfall.

[Heyo]

5. Yeah....

During Frances I tasted the rain... salty. (not like Skittles.. that's tasting the *rainbow*)

Even though I live 5 miles from the beach... it normally doesn't rain saltwater.

Heyo