power! power! power! we got power back last night! it so awesome...no more living like a damn amish person! it is wonderful....other than that in my life i am at work again. i got to ocala and turned around the next day and came to work. i also on that trip was my oh so graceful self and fell down like 6 stairs at my grandparents and sprained my ankle. other than that nothing else is goin on in my life except that i am going to disney friday!
well the hurricane hit us on monday. it was bad. they said it was only going to be a 1 or 2 but it was a frigin 3. my house is still without power. my boyfriend nthony got his power back on wednesday. lucky SOB. well i stayed with him last night. but all the trees in my area are down. out of 3 sides of fence only one stood. my dad just got a generator yesterday. he drove to his fathers house on the westcoast but northern westcoast. got like 60 gallons of gas and the generator. let me tell you i don't what would posses anyone to put one in their house because they are fucking load! well and also they are deadly. but my greatness right now is i am in orlando my sister and i decided to drive to our grandparents houe in ocala/ since we left so late we stopped at her ex boyfriends house for the night. we are leaving at like 6 am. soooo.....we will get there bright and early in the morning. i might have to work on monday i don't know yet. i can't get a hold of my boss. they got a generator for work but it won't run all the comps so they are trying to get laptops to run. but i don't see this happening....well i hope it doesn't happen i would like to stay up here for a couple days atleast. i don't mind going back to work tuesday or wednesday but who knows. i will find out. i was saying all week i will go to ocala but then i never went cause i told my self the second i get up there they will get power back and i will have to turn around for work. well the second my sister and i said we were gonna go. i spoke to my boyfriends mom and she told me i might have to work monday. so blah!....ne who i guess thats it for now.....muah!
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This was our street just a few hours after Wilma passed through. Not all neighborhoods were so fortunate as to keep the tops of their trees. This sign bit the Big Burger. I don't know what that thing was, but it blew off the top of a shopping center. WHEW!
Today I could barely get any work done. I kept checking a bunch of websites for the latest news on Wilma, and trying to figure out how close she was going to come to my parents. This morning when we were watching the weather Av said "Look at all those colors!" I was trying to explain to him that all of that green was rain that was heading towards his grandparents.
At work it was a constant round of checking local South Florida webstites, IMs with Shiny, and trying to figure out when to call my folks. Just as I was reloading Herald.com my cell rings - odd since I'm at work, but it's my mom! She was calling to let me know that they were ok.
The power went out around 8am, and there was lots of rain and wind. Then a big crash. According to what they could see through the one small window they didn't shutter up, one of the big ficus trees on the road behind the house fell and landed on the backyard wall. Parts of the tree came through the screens over the pool, and apparently the tree is covering most of the house. Dad said that the tree just about covers the entire length of the house - the tree is that big - he said there doesn't look like there is any damage, but they won't know till after the tree is removed. There is no damage to the inside of the house though - no leaks or anything. Mom said it wasn't as scary as Hurricane Andrew, but certainly not pleasant. When the eye went over them (almost the entire county actually!) they got power back on briefly, but then the back wall of the hurricane hit and it was more powerful than the front one, which took a lot of people by surprise.
When I spoke with them again tonight, they were still in the darnk, and they had removed some downed trees from the street. My dad asked me to log in to his work email for him so that he could get reschedule a meeting and make sure that he didn't have to go in tomorrow. I find the use of modern technology interesting, since Dad asked me to email the family and let them know they were ok.
It was certainly a much more powerful storm than they had all anticipated, and damage looks pretty bad throughout the entire South Florida area. Here's hoping that everyone else weathered the storm as well...
Remember to pray for sandyquill and any other mindsayers in florida right now. I think the hurricane is in the atlantic now and God willing it stays there....
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