I just had the weirdest dream...
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:31 am
I was visiting my Grandmother in North Quincy, MA, not far from the MBTA station. (In my dream)
Now, Grandma died in 2003 at the age of 99, and had moved down to Texas to live with my parents about 5 or 6 years before that when she couldn't take care of her large house, which had several rooms she rented out, anymore.
She is buried in Marshfield, MA, alongside my uncle who died at age 10 of cystic fibrosis, and her mother, Mary Hanley, from Galway, Ireland, who worked as a domestic and married a New England Yankee farmer whose great uncle, IIRC, lost an arm in the Civil War. Mary Hanley Lane died of cancer when Grandma was 1. Hence, Grandma was baptized Catholic but raised New England Congregationalist.
So, I am visiting my grandmother, (in my dream) the NWS internet page (she never had a computer) had Eastern Mass in a hurricane watch and a tornado watch, and the NHC forecast is for a near miss offshore, with possible hurricane conditions right on the coast.
Joe Bastardi says a direct hit, passing up Narragansett Bay and right over Boston. Again, Grandma never had a computer. I did used to visit during the Summer, and take the subway to Red Sox games. Bastardi says homes will be destroyed.
Anyway, the storm is by the Bahamas, per cable TV, and it is already windy as anything. And then it starts hailing, and then the alarm went off.
Now, Grandma died in 2003 at the age of 99, and had moved down to Texas to live with my parents about 5 or 6 years before that when she couldn't take care of her large house, which had several rooms she rented out, anymore.
She is buried in Marshfield, MA, alongside my uncle who died at age 10 of cystic fibrosis, and her mother, Mary Hanley, from Galway, Ireland, who worked as a domestic and married a New England Yankee farmer whose great uncle, IIRC, lost an arm in the Civil War. Mary Hanley Lane died of cancer when Grandma was 1. Hence, Grandma was baptized Catholic but raised New England Congregationalist.
So, I am visiting my grandmother, (in my dream) the NWS internet page (she never had a computer) had Eastern Mass in a hurricane watch and a tornado watch, and the NHC forecast is for a near miss offshore, with possible hurricane conditions right on the coast.
Joe Bastardi says a direct hit, passing up Narragansett Bay and right over Boston. Again, Grandma never had a computer. I did used to visit during the Summer, and take the subway to Red Sox games. Bastardi says homes will be destroyed.
Anyway, the storm is by the Bahamas, per cable TV, and it is already windy as anything. And then it starts hailing, and then the alarm went off.
