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Jeanne - 2nd Thursday

Thursday, September 23, 2004. 6:30 p.m.  Janet, now back in school, said she misses getting regular updates from us via the...

 
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Jeanne - Wednesday

Wednesday, September 22, 2004. 9:15 a.m. Jeanne is dancing around and driving all the computer models crazy, and more storms are...

 
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Ivan - 2nd Sunday

Sunday, September 19, 2004. 11:45 p.m. Here is a picture from Heather & Jon’s website of what Ivan did to Pittsburgh.

 
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Ivan - 2nd Saturday

Saturday, September 18, 2004. 6:00 p.m. Ivan is hitting Philadelphia hard, too. NMKB lost a tree, found a couple of leaks thanks...

 
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Jeanne - Saturday

Saturday, September 18, 2004. 7:45 a.m. Jeanne's projected path is looking much nicer for us, and Hurricane Karl, though stronger,...

 
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Ivan - 2nd Friday 9:45 p.m.

9:45 p.m. The news stories I could find online were slow to provide information, but finally it got Google’s attention. Check...

 
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Ivan - 2nd Friday 7:30 p.m.

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. :)

 
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Jeanne - Friday

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...

 
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Ivan - 2nd Friday 6:15 p.m.

Friday, September 17, 2004. 6:15 p.m.  As devastating as Ivan has been, I had though I was done with personal commentary on this...

 
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Hurricane Jeanne - Thursday

Thursday, September 16, 2004. 6:30 a.m.  If I'd known that this season's hurricanes were to be of such intense personal interest,...

 
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Ivan - Tuesday

Tuesday, September 14, 2004. 6:15 a.m.  The word is that our friend’s family on Cayman Brac fared well, though Grand Cayman...

 
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Ivan - Monday

Monday, September 13, 2004. 9:30 a.m. I said that the flooding doesn’t directly affect us, but that’s not quite true. We’ve...

 
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Ivan - Sunday

Sunday, September 12, 2004. 10:00 p.m.  It was good to go to church today. We had only missed a week, but it felt like a year....

 
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Ivan - Saturday 9:30 p.m.

9:30 p.m. Now the focus of our prayers turns from Jamaica to the Cayman Islands. We have a friend who is from Cayman Brac , and her...

 
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Ivan - Saturday 8:00 a.m.

Saturday, September 11, 2004. 8:00 a.m. As we wait, keeping a weather eye on Ivan, the floodwaters keep rising from the damage done by...

 
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Ivan - Friday 3:30 p.m.

3:00 p.m. Another reason to homeschool? I feel sorry for Central Florida’s school students and teachers—at this rate, they...

 
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Ivan - Friday 9:30 a.m.

Friday, September 10, 2004. 9:30 a.m.   We’re into comfort food now. Last night I baked oatmeal cookies (most of which will...

 
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Ivan - Thursday 9:15 p.m.

9:15 p.m. Things are sticky at work, and Porter is stressed over the possibility of missing days next week. (The previous hurricanes...

 
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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...

 
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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...

 
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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.”...

 
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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...

 
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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...

 
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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...

 
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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...