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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...
sursumcorda, 9 September 2004 |
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...
Frances - Saturday 8:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m. Still hanging in there, as Frances is essentially stalled. It's pretty nasty on the coast, though. And Grand Bahama has...
Frances - Saturday 6:15 p.m.
6:15 p.m. Just to let you know that we dodged that one. It went a bit to the north of us.
Frances - Saturday 5:40 p.m.
5:40 p.m. We’re in a temporary lull, as Frances has stalled. Some places in Central Florida are without power already, but so...
Frances - Saturday 3:45 p.m.
3:45 p.m. More rain and gusts. Something hit the roof, sounded loud but, as I said before, a squirrel running across the roof...
Frances - Saturday 11:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m. First rain. A brief squall, with some high gusts, though not unusual for a summer storm. But it represents the first...
Frances - Saturday 6:30 a.m.
Saturday, September 4, 2004. 6:30 a.m. Perhaps I should apologize to you for having nothing of interest to report, but I can’t be...
Frances - Friday 10:00 p.m.
10:00 p.m. I may make it to bed at a reasonable hour tonight. There’s still more to do, but the news has been good enough...
Frances - Friday 6:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m. Porter has finished with the windows, which means he added our bedroom, the living room window over the piano, and the...
Frances - Friday 12:30 p.m.
12:30 p.m. It’s getting dark in here. No, it has nothing to do with the weather; plywood window-covering is not...
Frances - Friday 6:30 a.m.
Friday, September 3, 2004. 6:30 a.m. Good morning! The good news this morning is that the freezer is still working. I was a little...
Frances - Thursday 10:00 p.m.
10:00 p.m. The end of a long, but not unpleasant day. The worst news of today is that Heather, Jon, and Jonathan will not be coming...
Frances - Thursday 6:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m. Porter just left to take a huge trailer-load of neighborhood tree debris to the county transfer station. We’re...