3:00 p.m. We’ve just had it confirmed that the city is unlikely to be able to remove the debris from our street before Frances...
1:30 p.m. Nero fiddled; I cook. Poor Man’s Cake (a promise is a promise, hurricane or no), cereal (I make my own), gallons...
10:30 a.m. Porter let his boss know that he’ll be a little distracted today. But as long as the power and phone lines hold up,...
9:10 a.m. At 7:00 we learned that Home Depot had plywood, so we rushed out. This is definitely a two-person job. I arrived first,...
Thursday, September 2, 2004. 5:45 a.m. Time to face the new day, and the prospect of standing in line for hours at Home Depot...
9:00 p.m. Hurricanes don’t allow you to say, “I’ve had a wearying day, and I need to take the evening off.”...
5:45 p.m. Whew! People here are definitely taking this more seriously, sooner, than last time. On no day before Charley, not...
12:45 p.m. Too late. All the Home Depots in the area are out of plywood. THAT’s what we should have done last weekend...
Wednesday, September 1, 2004 . Yes, it’s true. While we are still recovering from Charley, Frances has us in her sights. Not...
Life for us has been essentially back to normal for a week, but there are still people around here without power. The more local the...
Disasters seem to bring out the best and the worst in people. You hear about looting and price-gouging, but after Charley I’ve...
Power is gradually being restored to the area, though many of our friends are still without. If we stay near home, it is easy to...
Hurricane Charley did not cut off our water supply; we did not even lose pressure, as some cities did, so our tap water remains...
God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (1 John 1:5) And night shall be no more; they need no light of lamp or...
8/14/04 10:00 p.m. Our power was restored at 7:45 p.m. We had spent the day trying to conserve cool air, in the house, the...
8/14/04 9:00 a.m. This won’t be long, as I don’t want to use too much of the laptop’s battery; there is as yet no...
8/13/04 9:20 p.m. Bringing the computer down now. Love you all! Hope to post good news in the morning.
8/13/04 8:50 p.m. Just lost power; it came back on in a few seconds. But it may be a harbinger of things to come....
8/13/04 8:45 p.m. Wind really picking up now. I hear tree branches falling on the roof. They sound large but I know from...
8/13/04 8:30 p.m. The rain's picking up now, and so is the wind. Still less than a normal summer storm. Right now we're just...
8/13/04 7:15 p.m. Charley is now a Category 3, and some of the commentators are talking almost as if it's all over. But it's not here...
8/13/04 6:40 p.m. Time to make some dinner, while we still have power. We've filled almost every available container with water....
8/13/04 5:00 p.m. I'm taking a break at the moment. We've brought the potential missiles inside, and have positioned the cars right...
8/13/04 4:00 p.m. Janet and I just returned safely from her voice lesson. It had looked as if we would have plenty of...
8/13/04 11:00 a.m. We awoke this morning to the eerie, sultry pre-hurricane stillness, though if I hadn't known a hurricane was...