Hello after our hurricane. We all "sheltered in place." Michael, Tristan, and I were at my house. Amanda and Russell stayed at their house. The storm went through during the night. I heard wind and rain and was hot. The electricity went out about 8:30. We had ice and plenty of water, and it never went out. When we woke up on Saturday, the yard was littered with a few branches and lots of twiggy branches and leaves. Still no electricity. I opened windows to try to get some air stirring which helped a little. We got through Saturday and I was dreading trying to get to sleep that night. About 8:00 pm the electricity came back on. Amanda came over for a little while a little after 9:00 because their electricity was not back on. I haven't spoken with her this morning to know if it came back on or not. They had very little damage at their house. She said part of the fence leaned a little but did not fall and they lost about 5 shingles on their house.
Thank goodness we live in a county that ended up a little west of the eye's path. We did not get the flooding nor the extensive damage causing the power outages. Perhaps our outage was caused by limbs on lines or a blown transformer. Anyway, whatever was the cause it was accessible and, apparently, fixable.
We have heavy rains today--leftover moisture from Ike and a cold front moving in. So what debris isn't washed away with the rain this morning, we will clean up this afternoon. We fared much better than many and I am grateful.
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