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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...
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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...
Frances - Thursday 3:00 p.m.
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...
Frances - Thursday 1:30 p.m.
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...
Frances - Thursday 10:30 a.m.
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,...
Frances - Thursday 9:10 a.m.
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,...
Frances - Thursday 5:45 a.m.
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...
Frances - Wednesday 9:00
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.”...
Frances - Wednesday 5:45
5:45 p.m. Whew! People here are definitely taking this more seriously, sooner, than last time. On no day before Charley, not...
Frances - Wednesday 12:45
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...
Hurricane Frances - Wednesday
Wednesday, September 1, 2004 . Yes, it’s true. While we are still recovering from Charley, Frances has us in her sights. Not...
Charley - 10 Days Later
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...