Did you escape the flooding of Hurricane Katrina in 2005? Did you hide from the powerful winds of Hurricane Charley in 2004? Or, maybe you or a friend, neighbor or relative has firsthand experience of any one of the scores of hurricanes that made landfall throughout the Atlantic basin. If so, we want to hear from you!

That’s right kids, if you had a horrible life-scarring event related to hurricanes we are super pumped to hear about it and then tell other people!! So, please, send it on in! Seriously, we used exclamation points! It is a project! About storm stories! AWESOME!!

So, like, it would probably be really unethical and shitty of me to suggest that our readers flood (pun intended) that e-mail address with bogus stories, wouldn’t it? Yeah, I probably shouldn’t do that. It probably wouldn’t be funny to come up with a bunch of totally awesome recollections of things like that one hurricane-spawned tornado that swept you out of your hot tub in Larghetto on a Tuesday and deposited you atop the deck of Cha Cha Coconuts Saturday evening with a sweet mai tai in hand. That wouldn’t be nice. Seriously, we shouldn’t get in the way of this totally noble, non-exploitive, non-ZOMFG-l00k-@-that-awesum-car-crashzors-over-there project.