While waiting in line at the grocery store today, I picked up a Reader's Digest and read an article about several traditional first...
I don't remember if we have the Olympics or the hurricanes to thank for this, but for one of those occasions we had the television...
Don't be surprised if you see posts appearing with long-past dates. I'm gradually collecting some of my old writings into this blog.
One consequence of having had to keep a weather eye out for hurricane news is that our television set was on quite a bit recently....
Thanks to a great deal of help from Jon Daley , I am venturing into the world of the Blog. It sounds rather like something from an old...
Friday, October 1, 2004. 7:30 a.m. Again, I don’t know who gets the credit for this; it appears to be circulating unattributed....
Tuesday, September 28, 2004. 1:00 p.m. The power is still on, and we are all happy about that. Porter is currently up on the...
9:15 p.m. We didn’t get our swim in. We were just finishing in the front yard when Porter came home. Since we had discovered...
Monday, September 27, 2004. 4:30 p.m. I apologize for the long delay between updates. Just after 1:00 yesterday afternoon, as the...
11:30 a.m. Still here, still fine, still have power, wind is anything but still. Impressive gusts, but sustained winds aren’t...
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...