I was sitting in the family room talking with my best friend up north. I look out and told her I was watching a hurricane. You can imagine her response (she's just like me).
Really - it was light enough that I could watch the cloud movement. It looked just like it does on the radar screen (without all those damn colors). It was actually pretty cool.
The winds are really starting to pick up here. I got some pictures from the front door of the palm trees and such bent over. Pretty much all the tourists around me are gone. The management company moved most of them out. I hear a group playing out in the pool across the way from me (WTF?) but other than that it's pretty quiet.
A funny thing - my mom keeps a Central Florida road map out on her kitchen table so that when we talk and I'm traveling she can figure out where I am. (It must be a single mom thing, I don't ask - it's just Mama Vi's way). Anyway - she says she keeps hearing about how Lake Wales and Haines City got the eye of both Charley and Frances and the eye of Jeanne will pass right over also. Then I hear pages turning, quiet. "Sweetie, that's you!" I almost wish she wouldn't have figured it out.
I still think it'll be fine. This house is only a year old. Was built to withstand a Cat 3. It may be scary, it may get ugly, but I think it'll be fine. I'm just worried about losing power. With my luck, it'll be my ex husband from Indiana that comes to fix it. That may not be a good thing. :)
Anyway - that's it for now. I took a nice long shower, made a fresh pot of coffee and am hunkering down.
It's gonna be a long night.
Posted by Tammi at September 25, 2004 07:09 PM | TrackBackIt's picked up here, but they say the worst will be from 10-3am. I think you'll get it worse than we do. I'm never getting the eye.
Posted by: Boudicca at September 25, 2004 07:25 PMWell, it might be a bad thing for him. The good thing, however, is that it could provide you with a good deal of stress release. (alright, I put $20 on Tammi, anyone else what to put down on this?).
Posted by: Laughing Wolf at September 25, 2004 07:29 PMI'm praying for you Tammi. Have been all afternoon. Keep us posted. I'll be checking in and following the news.
Do you you know that you have had more hurricanes this one year than in the 10 year period preceding it. I couldn't believe it either. You know, I always wondered about why homes were built the way they were in the caribean, now I know. I was too little to figure it out back then, but now, reading what you're going through it brings back all the stress and fear, but this time it's related to you and bou
Maybe you can think about things you'd like to blog, like the worst date you ever had. Gosh I've gotta couple to share with you when this is all over.
Till I read from you again, I'm sending you courage, faith and good vibes from here.
Michele
Posted by: michele at September 25, 2004 07:43 PM