Stormy Weather

The storm here in Sanford last evening was a doozy!! It came and went in a blink of an eye, but it was intense!! I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that it bordered on being a tornado! The wind was strong and LOUD!! I looked outside and the trees were swirling around in circles and practically laying on the ground! The rain was driving hard and heavy straight sideways and then switched direction and blew in the other direction and then switched back — over and over! The door to my shed (a very heavy wood door, by the way) blew open and I thought it was going to rip it off!! Then the wind swirled from another direction and slammed it shut again! As soon as the wind started to roar, the power went off — that was sometime around 5:30 or 6:00 (I think) and it never came back on until after 11:30!!! And I still don’t have cable – internet or TV! I’m on here through my dial up modem!

So, what did I do when the power was out???? Not much!!! ha-ha When the storm ended, I went outside with the girls to assess the damage. Luckily, I only had one huge limb and a few little ones down on the ground and they didn’t hit anything coming down!!!! It was pretty buggy right after the storm, so I didn’t stay out long! My laptop had enough juice to let me play a couple games I had on my hard drive – but that didn’t last long – it died and there was no power to recharge it! My new phone had enough juice to last a couple hours so I could check emails and play with the programming on it – but then it died, too! I thought about going for a drive to see how other areas faired the storm, but I couldn’t get out of my garage without the power to open the garage door……………..yeah, I know you can do it manually, but I don’t know how to do that – I’ve never had to figure it out – also, I think it involves climbing on a ladder to get up to the power box, which I have a strong aversion to (even if there were room to set up a ladder with the car in the garage)!!! So — I did a lot of throwing the ball for Megan and making circles for all three to chase around with the flashlight!!! They had a blast, but I was bored silly!!!

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