(Editor’s Note:  This is the first guest blog, brought to you by “Fives Timmy”, originally published on September 10, 2013 on “View from the Rough”)

Hurricane Sandy arrived in Rhode Island in late October 2012 rendering Aquidneck Island with no electrical power for a few days and no golf for anyone while courses recovered.

A week after the hurricane, I found myself at the driving range on a gorgeous Saturday morning, not a cloud in sight. As I practiced at the driving range at Green Valley Golf Course, I found myself to be alone on the range when all of a sudden another patron came along to hit some shags.  As the newcomer stretched he started to make small talk with me about the weather, the dialogue went like this:

New Player X:  “Boy, this weather is a lot different than last week when the Hurricane hit us, eh”

Me: (while practicing my driver tee shots):  “Yes, this is perfect for golf”

New Player X: “It sure is”

Just then I hit a massive drive straight down the middle of the practice range just as a new comment from the other man came as follows:

New Player X: “You have power”

Me: “Well I smacked that one great, but recently I have been spraying them all over the place”

With a look of total aghast the next comment was by the new comer:

New Player X: “I mean do you have power at your house” (his facial expression was priceless)

Me: (after a slight delay due to me thinking he was talking about my prowess with the #1 Wood and not the Hurricane damage)……..“Yes, I only lost it for about 36 hours”

Nothing more was said by either hacker….to this day, as many times as I have told that story and laughed, I believe the New Player X has probably told it more and laughed harder!!