Tammi's World

1st Gear

I was a little mopey yesterday. Still feel that way today, but also realize I gotta get out and do SOMETHING. Didn't lose anything in the Thunderstorms, so that's something to be grateful for. So today I'm going to leave the house. YEAH! Well, sorta.

I really need to head to Daytona, but need to wait until I see what the gas situation is. I really need to check on my customers in Lake Wales and Sebring, but also know there is nothing going on right now, except trying to get the basics for survival. I guess that leaves downtown Orlando. From what I understand the power company has done a fantastic job of getting everyone back in power. There are still outages, but progress is being made at a pretty fast click.

I've managed to hear from most everyone that I was worred about. They are all doing fine. My one cousin was pretty sick yesterday, but managed to get into the doctor and was feeling better last night. My other cousin and her family lost power for 13 hours but are back up and running. I guess it pays to be on the same line as a high school. They're really working to get the kids down here back in school. I haven't heard from Lee Ann, but know she doesn't live in a flood zone and that there are somethings going on with her, so won't worry quite yet. I'm also having phone issues - hard time getting calls out and don't know if I'm getting all my calls in. But if it comes down to it, I'll drive down there and check on her.

Anyway - I'm going to step out into the big bad world today. Not sure what I'll see, and really not looking forward to it, but a girl can't hide forever. It's kinda funny - people are responding to all this in a couple of different ways. Some are acting like this is no big deal - old hat by now. Other's are just spent. Done. Exhausted. Down. So it makes it tough. No matter what category you fall into at this point, you run into the other and it's making tempers very short and patience at an all time low. Talk about walking on glass. Yew.

I found an old disposable camera during the storm and took a couple pictures. Going to take that with me and take some more today. Even if no one else really cares, I want to document what I see. (Am hoping to never go through this again.) The camera is kinda old, so I'm not sure the film is still good, but it's worth a try.

Ok - enough stalling. Gotta kick it into gear. (And reverse probably wouldn't be the right choice at this time!)

Posted by Tammi at September 28, 2004 08:12 AM