hurricane gustaf
I am in the midst of the Cross Canada Birthday Tour 2002 with my sisters and 6 week old niece. We're an adventurous lot, so we decided to fly to New Brunswick on September 11, and were subjected to security officers in Toronto that obviously had their training with the Shining Path in Peru. They confiscated everything they could and even shook the baby! I thought the suicide bomber sleepers she was wearing were cute, but there is no accounting for taste. We landed in the middle of the first Hurricane I ever remember and were one of the last to make it over the bridge (140 km winds). School was cancelled, trees were all over the place, power was out-the only generator in Kensington is at the Tim Hortons, but don't panic, it was working fine. All of the corn (about an acre) in my Dad's garden was knocked down, and we aren't allowed to eat anything else until we leave.
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