Karl’s Kurse

 

So Karl tends to attract natural disasters (or more recently manmade) everywhere he lives. I decided to compile these for you.

• 1989: San Francisco Earthquake
• 1992: Hurricane Iniki Category 4 hurricane: strongest to hit Hawaii in history
• 2000: Raleigh Record Snowstorm: about 24 inches in 2 days
• 2004: Hurricane Ivan 10th most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded
• 2005: Hurricane Dennis We also dealt with Hurricane Katrina but the eye didn’t go over our city
• 2009: Nor’ Ida Dropped 18 inches of rain thus flooding all of downtown Norfolk
• 2010: Gulf Oil Spill- The beaches on base have been officially closed due to the oil spill as on Monday. The base is not even on the gulf directly, it is on the bay but the oil has gotten up into the lagoons, etc.

When we moved here, we warned people of “Karl’s Kurse”, but at the time we thought it meant that we were in for a fierce hurricane season. There was no way we could predict what our city is dealing with now.

 

So with earthquakes, flooding, blizzards, hurricanes, and oil spills on his list,  I don’t ever dare tempt the curse by asking “What next?”