Wow that storm was scary

[conuly]

In our house, it was like being a fish in an aquarium with some asshole smacking the outside of the glass.

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Comments

[sovay]

In our house, it was like being a fish in an aquarium with some asshole smacking the outside of the glass.

I hope no one broke the fishbowl.

[conuly]

Not that I can tell!

[steorra]

"Will you get robbed this year? How would you rate your chances?"

I guessed around 1%, and wondered if that was still too high. Apparently I was in the right ballpark - although I don't know if the ballpark is the same size in Canada.

"Across that decade, respondents put their chance of being robbed in the coming year at about 15 percent."
That seems obviously way too high given that I haven't been robbed in the past 6 years ... or 12 ... or even 30.

[conuly]

Yeah, I read the question and, like you, tried to work out my odds. Well... I've never been robbed before, and while I know crime happens in this area the last mugging of somebody I personally know was several years ago and the last burglary even longer, so my answer was "Pretty slim, probably", and... yeah, 1 percentish sounds about right for that. 15 percent is a ridiculous number.

[steorra]

I have had a burglary happen to me, 8 years ago, but I wasn't counting that because burglary when you don't even see the burglar isn't robbery.

[maju]

Someone broke into the house in which my daughters and I were sleeping, about twenty years ago. They didn't steal anything because one of my daughters disturbed them. That's the last time I remember being the victim of any sort of crime until someone fraudulently used my credit card last year.

[al_zorra]

The storm skipped over or around us almost entirely. We kept waiting for it to start. Finally we thought the earlier prediction of 7 - 8 PM was the right one after all. We checked -- and learned the storm had gone much further west and north hours ago already. We hardly even got any rain -- just a bit for a few minutes around 1 PM.

Very lucky. Because everywhere else -- not so lucky, not at all.

Well, we have more of these a'comin' this summer . . . .