I have no recollection at all of Hurricane Erin, but then I was sort of out of the loop on news for the entire week+ before 9/11. I actually moved
from Los Angeles back to New York that week, getting to NYC on 9/7/2001. I had driven across country with a friend for about a week, stopping at my
parents in Baltimore for an extra day on the way. My friend and I were not really paying attention at all to the news during our trip, instead
focusing on things like seeing Meteor Crater in AZ, enjoying heck out of Santa Fe, NM, photographing the vistas and sights along the way and hunting
down the best steak houses we could find in the Midwest.
I didn't even have a TV set up those first few days in New York, everything still in boxes in my new apartment. I am surprised that my parents didn't
mention anything about a hurricane coming up the coast, though, or if they did they didn't make a big deal about it. I suppose it's possible that
between the excitement of moving and then 9/11 happening 4 days later (which I witnessed in person, not the planes but the towers burning) I just
forgot all about it. It might have been relegated to a minor detail in my mind by that point with so much else happening in my life.
Looking at pictures of the storm path, though, it was very far out in the Atlantic, it seems. Much farther out than Gloria or Irene, so maybe it just
wasn't considered a threat so didn't register as major news. Pretty interesting, though.
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