- Well, I’m here, back in the office and all is well. Thankfully, the storm went about an hour southeast of us and we didn’t get it badly at all. We did get wind and lots of rain but since we got the western side the storm, it wasn’t much of anything more than a bad rainstorm. Rain started around 3ish Wednesday morning and picked up through about 11/12; we lost power at 7 and around 10, fired up the generator. By noon, the rain and wind has stopped but since we didn’t know if we’d get power back soon, my husband went out for more extension cables in case we had to sleep a night without AC, because we could run fans off the generator. But by 1 PM it was back on. We then began picking up debris and whatnot. It seemed like a long day, with me making some mac and cheese and a veggie for lunch (gas stoves come in clutch when power is out!) and then having leftover tacos for dinner.
- My son ended up staying at his friend’s house (he and probably four other boys) and they never even lost power! He came home for about half an hour on Wednesday afternoon then went back out. Sigh. At some point I have to resign myself to the fact he’s going to live his own life. We never did go out to eat with him the night of his birthday because he claimed he was too full and he’d rather have just been hanging out with his friends. But the four of us went out to eat anyway, at a burger joint, and it was actually really good. We’re supposed to do his belated birthday dinner tonight but now he has a cold so we’ll see.
- I was grateful we didn’t have work Thursday, even though we totally could have. And the kids could have gone to school. But we finished picking up sticks and branches, the boys mowed, I made a few meals for future use, and we got a lot of other random stuff done. In the evening, we had dinner with a friend and his wife then the guy and my husband had a fantasy football draft that I stuck around for (we did it at a brewery). It was nice to get back to normal life stuff after all the stress of the storm!
- It’s weird being back at work and realizing I was here Tuesday; it seems like a lifetime ago! As I said, long days. I remember seasons like this when I was working at FSU and teaching and we’d have a storm. We’d be off work for a few days and then it was difficult getting back on track. You lose your momentum. Probably worse for teaching because you’d just started a semester, but now it’s not as bad. It might be affecting the kids though. Just got an email from Elliot’s English teacher saying no one is doing the reading (It’s Gatsby). It’s a couple weeks in and they already had a storm and hit that speed bump. Sigh.
- This weekend holds a few things: potentially going out to dinner tonight, potentially a girls’ night thing for brew club (I’m considering not going), brewing Sunday, a friend get-together Sunday night, then I moved a fantasy draft to Monday, since Isaac has a meet on Tuesday. Next week is going to be crazy busy! Draft Monday, meet and dance Tuesday, eye surgery Wednesday, another draft Thursday. Sigh. It’s a lot but I guess I wouldn’t really trade it for anything else!
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I’m happy the storm went easy on you. From what they were predicting, I was afraid you were going to get hit much harder.
It definitely looked like we were going to get pummeled.
I’m glad you were spared the worst of it. You Floridians are tough about these things. If we had wind, rain, and power outage here, people would freak out. Your son’s growing independence is a good thing, but can be bittersweet.
And weather closures do mess up school schedules. We had a snow closure right at the start of our spring semester last year, and it seemed we played catch up the whole rest of the term.
I’m so glad y’all are ok and the storm didn’t hit y’all too hard!