Hanna banana

Hanna is supposed to come thru our area tomorrow It made landfall in Carolina today. I went up to my buddy's place by Dover to help move planes around and get ready for the storm. My Pa28 is up there and Dan will see that it has a place in a hangar It's waiting on parts and it can't be flown, so it needs to be secured. I don't know how we did it, but we got two planes crammed into one single- plane hangar. Then we had lunch and went to another airport. Smyrna, De. Then we took the wings and tail off one of his sailplanes and stashed them. Then we repositioned his 126 Sailplane to another field about twenty miles away. There were two of us helping Dan. The other guy was this airline pilot "Jeff". He has an incredible sailplane called a "DG" or something. It is a self launcher and looks like the gliders they race in. Super performance and big six figure dollars. Single seat-- 50 or 60 to 1 glide ratio. So I just assumed that Jeff would fly the 126 down to it's new location. Towed by Dan. But then I heard Dan telling Jeff about how he could start on taking apart the two seater while we were gone, and it dawned on me that maybe I was going to fly the 126. Which would be very cool! So I had a conversation with Dan. "So Lloyd, you ready to fly the 126 to Sandtown"? "Yes, but I've never flown a glider in this much wind before." "Yea, it's windy". "Uh, also, I've never flown low tow except in training years ago." "Yea well, it's only 20 miles, you can fly high tow if you want". As we were about to launch Jeff reminded me that I had a ball cap on and it might get rough enough for me to hit my head on the canopy. Ball caps have these buttons on the top which really hurt if you hit your head. I took the cap off. We took off and I was pretty rusty and it was pretty damned exciting for the first seven hundred feet. I got my head slammed twice against the canopy. But my GA friends--- I was smiling and yelling and having a great time. We leveled off at 2500 feet and it was a fine ride. I released over Sandtown and caught a little thermal but couldn't ride it long because it would drift me back too fast, So I settled for what I could get and flew upwind in some "zero sink". And I did't want to keep Dan waiting too long. We still had work to do. I tried to plan my landing roll up to the spot where the hangar was. My landing was fine, but the wind was so strong I came up about 500 ft. short of where he and his buddy were standing. We put the little 126B in their beautiful hangar. And we flew back to Smyrna. Tied down some more stuff. I thanked Jeff for saving me on that ball cap thing because I did hit the canopy. Then we flew back to Dan's. Then I jumped in the M-10 and flew back to home. It was getting dark. And solid overcast, and foggy and rainshowers were popping up. I was hot and I opened the canopy and flew in the light rain and dusk on the outskirts of a tropical storm. It felt great. Wife watched me land and she helped me put the professor's plane and then the M-10 in the hangar. Now I am going to watch Hanna on the computer and TV and see what she will do to us tomorrow. I suspect very little. But what about Ike? GA Informal.