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Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just under 21,000 steps a day.

I'm walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so.

65 degrees here in South Carolina, breezy, sometimes bordering on windy.

We had some thunderstorms wore through last night that were about as intense as I've ever seen.

There was a tornado watch.

I don't think we got any tornadoes,

but I walked out on the porch at one point.

And the rain was coming down, really hard.

The wind was blowing, really strong.

And I got to wondering

how much

worse is it

when a tropical storm

or hurricane

hit

because we've only been here

for a little more than a year

and that's one of the

questions that I've asked folks that have lived here longer.

What do you do?

What do you do when we've got a tropical storm or a hurricane and just how bad is it?

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