25 September 22:44
We re watching the news update. It looks as if the western eye wall as made landfall at Vero Beach at 10:37pm.. Looks like it didn�t make it to a category 4��.thankfully, at least France had become a weak 2 before it hit.
We have been watching football today. Right now Minnesota is killing North Western ����.33 to 10. I keep hoping that NW will regain it�s competiviness. I loved that cinderella season they had a few years ago.
We finished off the ice cream��.knew that wouldn�t last the next few days.
26 September 12:44
I�m writing this on my laptop battery�.unfortunately I think my battery will die before we get power restored.
We made it through the night. It didn�t seem as bad as Frances, at least not in our subdivision. Only one nice size branch came down from the neighbor�s tree & it didn�t hit anything. There is not as much debris as there was last time, but Frances took out a most of it & kind of prepared us for this one.
We have another tree blocking us in to our cul-de-sac, one more house down from the last one. Of course, when I went to wally world the other day they didn�t have any bow saws��=( I was able to get a tree trimmer, but I don�t know how much help that will be.
We thought we were going to get away with having power��I woke up around 7am, the wind sounded no way as bad as the night before��.I thinking cool�we are going to keep our power�.nope, it was not to be. We lost it between 8-9am. =( Dang it!!!
Now I found this odd, in the middle of the worst part of the storm (both Frances & Jeane) all the frogs & toads in the area go crazy. They make such a rack it that sometimes you can�t hear the wind, if you can believe that��..it is really weird. You�d think they�d be in hiding or something��lol
19:14
We got lucky about the tree across the road. Last time, some of the neighbors & us had to take bow saws to it & do it ourselves. As we were napping (since there is nothing else to do) we heard chainsaws going & got up to help haul some of it away & just to do something. Instead of it being our neighbors it was the city. That was so cool, they had a semi to put it in & everything. The tree guys probably thought we were nuts���.lol��cuz a neighbor, Torn & myself stood out there and watched them even when the sprinkling rain turned to pouring raid�.as we did that the tree guys pointed to us while they were wearing their rain gear. Heck, we had nothing to do & needed a shower��..so why not��..lol
After we got back in, dripping, we remembered that have the spare bath that only has a shower not a bath tub (so it wasn�t filled with water) & we have a gas water heater. Alright!!! Now we can take a shower����it felt great��grin
Last time we didn�t use that shower cuz we didn�t know what to expect & had our cat carriers & a few precious things in the shower area, since it was the most reinforced room of the house. So we weren�t thinking of using it this time������..lol
We have a nice neighbor next door. She is single & a little bit older then us. She reminds me of a kind of Darma personality. Last night she came over to see if we had a shop vac. Her mom, who was staying with her for the storm, accidentally over flowed the bath tub & was soaking into her bedroom carpet. The she was having problems with the vacuum, so Torn went over and helped.
Today he helped to take down her pile wood. She has 2 cats herself, so she wanted to show us them. They were cuties. =) She asked if I wanted to go see some of the ripped up trees in the neighborhood. So we went and took some pics.
One huge tree was ripped up and leaning completely against a house. Luckily it had several thick branches instead of one big trunk so its weight was more evenly distributed onto the house so the roof was ok from what we saw. Hopefully they can get it off the house soon so not to start messing it up.
We saw another tree pushed down into someone�s yard. The city would not remove it; it has to be in the way of public access for emergency responses. =( It was w
ild looking.
Brett & Sammy & a friend came over to check on us. They have no power, but their place is ok. They finally got their land line working for their phone. The cell phone services are barely working if not completely down.
That is about it for today��.at least we had some people interaction��..boring as heck otherwise��.I so hope we get our power tomorrow, but I�m not holding my breath.
Right now I have about 55% power remaining on this battery�..lol
27 September 2004 00:26
WE HAVE POWER!! Alright! Got it back about 21:15
Right now playing catch up on everything��..so I�ll chat more tomorrow�I�m headed to bed. =)
Peace
Toni