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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...
sursumcorda, 3 September 2004 |
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...
Neighbors
Disasters seem to bring out the best and the worst in people. You hear about looting and price-gouging, but after Charley I’ve...
Post Charley - Tuesday
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...
Water
Hurricane Charley did not cut off our water supply; we did not even lose pressure, as some cities did, so our tap water remains...
Light
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...
Charley - Saturday Night
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...
Charley - Saturday Morning
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...
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.
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...