For a minute there I thought it had all been a dream.  I woke up cloudy-headed on Friday morning wondering if I had really witnessed the re-embodiment of the Doors and Led Zeppelin, watched a convincing Janis Joplin performance by a long-haired woman with hippie garb and kicka$$ boots, and danced among an auditorium crowd of baby boomers who hadn’t moved like that in twenty years.

Despite the dreamy, fog machine-haze of the night before, it was, in fact, real.  It was Flashback – the Classic Rock Experience.

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Now, allow me to confess that I didn’t know what I was getting into.  At 5 pm on Thursday, Fitz informed me that I had VIP concert tickets to Flashback at the Savannah Civic Center later that evening.  Not one to turn down a free music event – even on my four year anniversary (!) – I quizzically prepared for my evening assignment.  But what was Flashback?  What do you wear to a concert event throwback to the 60s and 70s?

The Hurricanes are coming! The Hurricanes are coming! The reincarnation of Paul Revere has ridden through Savannah this week threatening hurricane-force doom and gloom, demanding swift response. Sure, there is a storm a-brewin’. But does it really warrant all this hoopla?

Having recently been schooled on meteorology and hurricane history for my article (ahem) in the June/July “Bad” Issue of The South Magazine, and having grown up in south Florida, I like to think I’m am aware of the dangers of tropical weather events. I take them very seriously, but – quite frankly – I ain’t skeered. At least not of Hanna.

Per the article…

“The likelihood of a direct hit by a big storm is very, very small,” asserts resident meteorologist for WTOC Patrick Prokop. And, according to Prokop, that has much to do with our geography. “We are about the furthest point west on the East Coast,” he explains. “We are located in somewhat of a cove. Hurricanes traveling from south to north will largely miss us.” These storms will skirt the Savannah area on average once every three and a half years, with their most significant impacts sustained along the coast of the Carolinas or further northward.