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As we looked off, and saw the water growing darker and darker and deeper and deeper the farther we looked, till it was awful to consider,... I felt that I was a land animal.... I could then appreciate the heroism of the old navigator, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, of whom it is related, that being overtaken by a storm when on his return from America, in the year 1583, far northeastward from where we were, sitting abaft with a book in his hand, just before he was swallowed up in the deep, he cried out to his comrades in the Hind, as they came within hearing, “We are as near to Heaven by sea as by land.” I saw that it would not be easy to realize.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily
like a dog looking for a place to sleep in,
listen to it growling.
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
Warm Up To Winter Storm Preparedness ... Avoid the complacency trap! If, one year, you invest the time and money into preparing for the worst winter storm you can imagine and then it doesn't happen, there is a danger that you will slack off the next year...