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Charley - Friday Night
8/13/04 9:20 p.m. Bringing the computer down now. Love you all! Hope to post good news in the morning.
sursumcorda, 13 August 2004 |
Charley - Friday Evening 8:50pm
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....
Charley - Friday Evening 8:45pm
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...
Charley - Friday Evening 8:30pm
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...
Charley - Friday Evening 7:15pm
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...
Charley - Friday Evening 6:40pm
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....
Charley - Friday Afternoon 5pm
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...
Charley - Friday Afternoon 4pm
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...
Charley - Friday Morning
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...
Charley - Thursday Night
8/12/04 10:00 p.m. Janet just creamed us in Quiddler, so it's time for bed. We'll check on Charley in the morning.
Hurricane Charley - Thursday Evening
During our 20 years in Central Florida, we had experienced no more than the outskirts of a hurricane, although in 1999 Floyd was...
Options in Childbirth: A Personal Odyssey
When they put the sugar back into baby food, I should have known it was a bad sign. Progress is often a tidal creek, not a river....
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Hallowe'en
This Hallowe’en we had not a single trick-or-treater come to our door, perhaps due in part to confusion as to the day. Some of our...
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Creative Work
One day my sister wrote, "I am busy, but I can't figure out why I have nothing to show for it. I do a lot of driving and a lot of...