The other night the wind was 56 mph. Yikes. It’s all fun and games until the furniture starts moving on the balcony! Sometimes, sitting on my couch, I feel like I’m in a dinghy on the North Sea! The windows and the front door rattle and everything shakes – the flue in the fireplace bangs, the vent over the stove whistles. I have to lock the front door to keep it from rattling loudy and I have to put the doggy doorstop in front of the kitchen door to keep it from repeatedly closing.
One day I was in the parking lot at an area grocery store, and I heard some loud noises. It sounded like bombs going off. I almost took cover. I looked around and there were a lot of small objects on the ground. Without my glasses on, they looked like avocadoes. I thought maybe an avocado delivery truck had driven through the parking lot and lost part of its load! At closer inspection, it was pine cones. Every one that landed sounded like a firecracker or a bomb. They were flying out of the trees.
My neighbor said he read this was the worst November we’ve had in years. I think 2018 was just as bad. At least this year (so far), I haven’t had to load the dogs into the car to drive them to a protected areato wal k them!
Susie's Senior Year Abroad 
Wondering if there’s any way to secure all the banging objects. I bet you’ll figure it out if there is. I remember in my apartment in NOLA that the wind would blow the towels i stuffed into the my bedroom windows, knocking them out!! If I had visitors, they would ask me why I put towels on the floor at night! The landlord kept insisting that the windows were solid. Solidly leaking.
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