Hurricanes

Back in 2004, when I was pregnant with my first child, I had to take my uncle to work.

I had $5 for gas, he took my money and blew it on drugs. Needless to say I was severely upset.

Now mind you, this was the year when we were bombarded by all the hurricanes and tropical storms.

I was about seven months pregnant. My car ran out of gas about six or seven miles from my house, in the middle of a cat1/tropical storm. This just elevated the anger that much more. I'm stranded on the side of the road, I'm seven months pregnant, and I don't even have a cell phone. So what do I do? The only thing I can do, I start walking.

Now I live in Southeastern NC, we get these kind of things all the time, I'm no stranger to hurricanes or varying degrees of storms. Something just came over me in my trudge to the house, and all these cars passing an obviously pregnant woman. This idea, thought, whatever you wanna call it. I started compulsively saying, we will not have another hurricane in our area for seven years. For seven years we will not have a hurricane here.

Now, if you live around here, you would know, hurricanes are a farmers livelihood. We get most of our rainfall from hurricanes. I knew without these, we would be in a very bad drought. Either I didn't care, or it really wasn't up to me, and I was just the messenger.

So for seven years, no hurricane has hit the area. This is the seventh year. Pretty much to the day that I made the prediction, we had a first close call, but what we got in our area was more of a tropical storm, than a cat1 hurricane.

My prediction, for this year, is that we will have at least three cat3's or better, and seven years of hurricanes. After this year, I'm not sure of how many, nor the category the storms will be. I just know, that for the next seven years we will have hurricanes in the area, whether it be one a year, or possibly more.

After walking about two miles, in pouring rain, and very nice wind gusts, one man happened to stop and help me. He was dropping his girlfriend off at home. She told him that after she was dropped off, he was to come back and stop and ask if I needed help, cause no pregnant woman in her right mind would be out walking for no reason in this kind of weather. She even threatened him, that if he didn't, they were over. So he dropped her off, and she stood at her door to watch, and make sure he stopped.

He asked me why I was walking, and I told him what happened, I'm crying, cause he was the only one that had stopped to help me, and I was very embarrassed, considering, all I was wearing was a granny button up moo moo gown, and that was ALL.

He offered me a ride to my house, but being I didn't know him, I refused, I asked him if he happened to have a cell phone on him, which he did, and he let me call my (then) boyfriend to come and get me. The man stayed there with me, on the side of the road, until my boyfriend came and got me. The whole time standing there chanting, "For seven years we will have no hurricanes" when my bf picked me up I was still saying it.

He didn't know what to say, he just put his arm around me and I lost it and started bawling. I've never forgot it, and I've told everyone, that we wouldn't get another hurricane until at least 2011.

Now the thing that actually confuses me on it, is, that I wasn't sure that if the hurricanes would start this year, so late in the season, or if they wold start next year, but with all the activity we're having, I'm guessing it starts this year. So, those of you on the east coast. Get prepared.

I"m not sure it has, but I guess I've learned to trust an angry gut feeling. Either that, or I can make massive curses.

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