Hey there!  My uncle used to work on fishing boats in Florida.  He'd take people out on trips into the Gulf of Mexico.
Cool! I used to leave near the Gulf of Mexico, in Galveston.
Were you there during Hurricane Ike in 2008?  It was a CAT 2 when it made landfall and caused a lot of flooding.
I was! It was scary, but fortunately I was not affected. There was a lot of flooding.
I'm glad you were OK!  That was a bad one, it affected the entire US economy for years afterward.  140,000 people had to evacuate.
That's very sad. I know many evacuees went north to Dallas and Oklahoma.
That's right, and then to financial crisis happened in 2008 as well, making everything even worse.  Those were tough years!
Tough years, indeed. I am glad they are behind us!