Saturday, August 20, 2011

Forty-five minutes? We were so lucky, so far...

The storm came out of nowhere, but spoke loudly while it visited us this afternoon.
Thunder and lightening created dread for me and our noble pal Skipper who appeared to not have lost that creepy fearful sensation that we both seem to share from the hurricane that ’04 left us with.
Until the clash of thunder is right over your home with explosions staccato bombarding surrounding your personal world you have no idea how awful it can be. We were lucky we only lost power for forty-five minutes. I had called our Florida Power and light Company immediately on our house phone that is not a cordless since they don’t work in a power outage, and that’s another thing our FPL’s emergency number is very simple 1-800-4-outage, and they tell you by computerized voice and will contact you with updates if you so wish; only 235 homes were without power due to the storm.
I am sure many experienced similar reactions to war zones are what it could best be compared to.
Next week we may be getting one of those major storms coming directly at us.
If this next depression turns into a storm its name will be, Irene.
Pleasant enough name but until its associated with a hurricane of major strength and devastation, one never knows does one?
We should know within the next few days if we have to prepare to batten down the hatches and make ready for departing to areas unknown.
You see, until we have a realistic idea of the intensity and direction of the storm we don’t know what to do.
But yes it at least gives us a chance to get out of harms way; unlike the horror of a tornado, flash flood, earthquake or even sometimes a Tsunami.
And from experience we are in the know what to do, thankfully.
Only thing is this time we have to get another memory card for our camera to take the before and after pictures, which we found were so help in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley back in ’04.
The old adage, “A pictures worth a thousand words” is more than accurate when dealing with insurance companies.
You might want to also take pictures before you put your shutters on, since one time a new insurance company thought that our window had been broken when ours was left onto show that we had them. So I recommend, inside and out pictures to be taken before you batten down and the inside/out after too or at least outside; to prove that you took every effort to save your home and property.
Once you have all your proper information on where the storm may be going, since no one ever knows for sure then and only then can you consider in what direction you may have to go or maybe if lucky just stay put.
It’s definitely a wait and see game.
Wish us all luck in this neck of your woods of the world, it appears that we are now in the thick of the season and all we can do is watch, wait and listen to all our local authorities and meteorologists.

On that note of trying to keep safe now and always, take care, be well, smile and allow me to be the first tonight to wish you to kindly have a very happy good night and to count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time we will be here or be square, ya hear?

PS that medication that I was given for depression for all of $1.99 for thirty after only three days it did not agree with me, it caused nausea and more dizziness than even my Ataxia where I had to lie in bed and not move and so another good idea to help me my system refused…probably for the good, enough is enough!

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