9:45 a.m. We should be at church now, but storm—not to mention curfew—made the 40-minute trip an unwise venture. We...
11:30 p.m. Okay, now it feels as if I’m preparing for a hurricane: I’m baking a pound cake. I think the Daleys are...
10:30 p.m. Just after writing that, I heard some wind gusts, but we still don’t expect much till tomorrow.
9:30 p.m. Thank you again for your prayers—don’t stop just because my updates aren’t quite as frequent as before....
10:30 a.m. Porter and Jon just finished putting the plywood back up. It goes much faster when you have two strong...
Saturday, September 25, 2004. 8:00 a.m. The Daleys arrived safely last night. Although at the time of Frances I assured them...
Friday, September 24, 2004. 2:45 p.m. Back from a morning marathon shopping trip. Not particularly hurricane-related, though it's...
Thursday, September 23, 2004. 6:30 p.m. Janet, now back in school, said she misses getting regular updates from us via the...
Wednesday, September 22, 2004. 9:15 a.m. Jeanne is dancing around and driving all the computer models crazy, and more storms are...
Sunday, September 19, 2004. 11:45 p.m. Here is a picture from Heather & Jon’s website of what Ivan did to Pittsburgh.
Saturday, September 18, 2004. 6:00 p.m. Ivan is hitting Philadelphia hard, too. NMKB lost a tree, found a couple of leaks thanks...
Saturday, September 18, 2004. 7:45 a.m. Jeanne's projected path is looking much nicer for us, and Hurricane Karl, though stronger,...
9:45 p.m. The news stories I could find online were slow to provide information, but finally it got Google’s attention. Check...
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. :)
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...
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...
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,...
Tuesday, September 14, 2004. 6:15 a.m. The word is that our friend’s family on Cayman Brac fared well, though Grand Cayman...
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...
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....
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...
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...
3:00 p.m. Another reason to homeschool? I feel sorry for Central Florida’s school students and teachers—at this rate, they...
Friday, September 10, 2004. 9:30 a.m. We’re into comfort food now. Last night I baked oatmeal cookies (most of which will...
9:15 p.m. Things are sticky at work, and Porter is stressed over the possibility of missing days next week. (The previous hurricanes...