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Ivan - 2nd Friday 7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m. We just heard from Heather. Jon made it home safely. He was cold and wet, but now he’s warm and dry. :)
sursumcorda, 17 September 2004 |
Jeanne - Friday
Friday, September 17, 2004. 6:15 p.m. Jeanne is doing her best to assure us that no storm is too small to pray about. At one...
Ivan - 2nd Friday 6:15 p.m.
Friday, September 17, 2004. 6:15 p.m. As devastating as Ivan has been, I had though I was done with personal commentary on this...
Hurricane Jeanne - Thursday
Thursday, September 16, 2004. 6:30 a.m. If I'd known that this season's hurricanes were to be of such intense personal interest,...
Ivan - Tuesday
Tuesday, September 14, 2004. 6:15 a.m. The word is that our friend’s family on Cayman Brac fared well, though Grand Cayman...
Ivan - Monday
Monday, September 13, 2004. 9:30 a.m. I said that the flooding doesn’t directly affect us, but that’s not quite true. We’ve...
Ivan - Sunday
Sunday, September 12, 2004. 10:00 p.m. It was good to go to church today. We had only missed a week, but it felt like a year....
Ivan - Saturday 9:30 p.m.
9:30 p.m. Now the focus of our prayers turns from Jamaica to the Cayman Islands. We have a friend who is from Cayman Brac , and her...
Ivan - Saturday 8:00 a.m.
Saturday, September 11, 2004. 8:00 a.m. As we wait, keeping a weather eye on Ivan, the floodwaters keep rising from the damage done by...
Ivan - Friday 3:30 p.m.
3:00 p.m. Another reason to homeschool? I feel sorry for Central Florida’s school students and teachers—at this rate, they...
Ivan - Friday 9:30 a.m.
Friday, September 10, 2004. 9:30 a.m. We’re into comfort food now. Last night I baked oatmeal cookies (most of which will...
Ivan - Thursday 9:15 p.m.
9:15 p.m. Things are sticky at work, and Porter is stressed over the possibility of missing days next week. (The previous hurricanes...
Frances - 1 week later
Thursday, September 9, 2004. 6:30 p.m. Ivan is getting my attention now, but I will add a few things to Frances. We will need a...
Ivan - Thursday 1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. Category 5. I just returned from shopping. (Again! – with each hurricane we think of something more.) I picked...
Hurricane Ivan - Thursday 6:30 a.m.
Thursday, September 9, 2004. 6:30 a.m. Somehow the Lord’s Prayer keeps coming out, “deliver us from Ivan.”...
Frances - Monday 5:30 p.m.
5:30 p.m. So much for lunch. We had power for an hour and a half, but lost it again around noon. Despite having really looked forward...
Frances - Monday 11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. The power came on, apparently for real, about 10:35—after two previous attempts. Believe it or not, neither the A/C...
Frances - Monday 8:30 a.m.
8:30 a.m. As I said before, the best part of a hurricane is the neighborliness. A neighbor we hardly know just stopped by and...
Frances - Monday 7:45 a.m.
Monday, September 6, 2004. 7:45 a.m. Apparently there was a fair amount of wind and rain last night, but for the most part we slept...
Frances - Sunday 8:45 p.m.
8:45 p.m. I could almost ditto the previous entry. Frances—the Energizer Hurricane. It keeps going, and going, and going. Just...
Frances - Sunday 2:45 p.m.
2:45 p.m. We’re still here, still fine, still without power, still getting squalls and gusts with periods of relative calm....
Frances - Sunday 9:10 a.m.
9:10 a.m. Looks as if that's it for the power; it's time to turn off the computer. See you on the other side! Keep praying! We...
Frances - Sunday 7:00 a.m.
7:00 a.m. Good morning! Porter's checking out the news while I bring up the computer and let people know all is well here. The winds...
Frances - Sunday 12:30 a.m.
Sunday, September 5, 2004. 12:30 a.m. I just awoke from a two-hour nap. It's pouring now, but the wind is still low. Frances is...
Frances - Saturday 9:20 p.m.
9:20 p.m. We just returned from a short walk outside. If I hadn't been thinking that at any moment a gust could blow a piece of...