still no power

 We are fine,exhausted, hot and I lost 4 and bob 8 pounds from living on crackers bread, PBand J, we have worked daily and clean up is almost done. I have no access to fb and email uses my data. I don't have a phone withunlimted data. WE ARE STILL without power. maybe tomorrow. that is why i am missing and I miss all of you

Hurricane Milton (apocalypse inside my head)

the top left is the line we were sitting in for an hour waiting for sandbags to put at our sliding glass door.

✅  Water 12 gallons and 45 bottles, a few in each room in case one room has blown windows or roof gone

  ✅ cash ✅ photos of every thing in the house taken and in the cloud  ✅ Beaus Rabies/shots record in my phone. He went to vet yesterday, yes we went with him. Vet Tech said get a copy of your shots, if you go anywhere during or after storm, they will want to see it.

✅important papers in plastic bags inside cooler, duct taped so it will float and survive.

✅RX inside small cooler, for dog and both humans, name, address and phone number, 

✅ Card made with 5 MOST important passwords 

✅ phones charged, iPad, Chromebook charged, 3 battery packs charged, I used one of the packs during Helene power outage to run a USB lamp

Two new lanterns, with 6 settings, Red Steady, Red Flashes (hope I don't need those), high/low flash light and high/low as lantern with string to hang on arm, yes, I played with them. One can charge while using other one, since it said DO NOT use while charging.

This means I will not be in the dark when the apocalypse, umm Hurricane comes. We will get high winds about 8 pm Wed evening and the eye will be over us 3 am Thursday morning

ALL IN THE DARK... 

we have been through 9 hurricanes in 40 years and one has NEVER come in daylight hours.

If it thinks it might get here in daylight, it stops and sits in the gulf and gathers itself faster and faster to take aim AFTER DARK

Thank you to the many of you who offered us space to come and stay, and for all the messages, texts, and calls offering help.

Bob's niece and nephew, children of his oldest sister offered to charge a hotel for us to stay in

but they wanted us to go south to Venice, which is going to be hit harder than we are.

There is no where to go, or we would have gone... 

we are in zone E and we are not in evacuation zone. My neighbor told me today he checked the maps and it said for water to go over us it would have to be 33 feet, we may become and island and not be able to get out for a while or we may have a tree on the house or be minus a roof, but he told me to not fret about not being able to climb on a roof..

I ask him to promise me, the first thing he will do after the storm is come outside and look to see if a tree is on my house and come see if I am dead or alive, because one of my worst fears is a tree falling on me and NOT killing me, but trapping me there for 20 hours and no way for anyone to find me.

He laughed and said, you sound like my wife. (he did not offer me to come and stay where there are no trees, because it is the house of 7 cars, with 6 adults and an 18 month old baby and 3 dogs) I would have said no. ha ha

Bye for Now and We will see  you on the other side and I hope that means after the storm and not in heaven.

I am trying to be funny, but I do not feel funny. 

I feel really terrified waiting for D-Day tomorrow

If you are on Facebook, watch for a post from Amanda McCall, I will text her if I can and she will tag my page with and update, she is one of my family in Augusta that was hit by Helen a few days ago and was without power for 7 days, plus no cellphone service because

 the cell towers went down

if you hear nothing you will when we can.

I hope you don't see me on the news trying to climb from the roof into a row boat, because I am also afraid of water and boats...not just the dark

Bob's Birthday Oct 1, 2024

 

5 days after Helene, Bob turned 88 and we chose to keep working and celebrate

I took Beau for his morning walk and Wow! these are unedited and out of the cell phone.

This sky was soothing to my soul.  I lost contact with my brother and all of his family in Augusta Ga, no text, no call, nothing. 

I finally got through to him on Monday 30th, 4 days, I happened to call him when he was 50 miles from his home getting food and water and gas, and they had cell service. As i type this on 10/3 he still has very little cell service but for a text once in a while and is still without power, with maybe by 10/5.

He knew nothing of what was going on, and I told him how bad it was.

I spent a harrowing hour watching and listening to the tales of horror for Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. I found nothing but bad news.

The storm hit us on Wednesday and roared up the coast and hit our big bend area as a cat 4 storm, instead of it dissipating it went through the entire middle of the state of Georgia, my home state of birth. 

Helene took aim at Georgia and left a 250-mile-wide swath of devastation, hitting from Atlanta to Savannah, and there has never been a hurricane hit Augusta or any of middle Georgia in history. Hurricanes are always coastal and when on land go down to tropical storms.

18 of our states have 25 to 60 billion dollars of damage. 

I sent this text to my brother, he may or may not have read it yet. This info was Georgia's Govenor talking and giving info.

I just watched 20 minutes of your Governor talking and your whole area from the state line until to Augusta was hit by a cat 2 Hurricane and there are thousands of poles down and they can't get to the poles to put the poles back up or the wires until they move all the trees he said he flew in his helicopter and followed it and there's a 250 Mi wide like a tornado went through the middle of Georgia it's absolutely the worst disaster that has ever it hit Middle Georgia.

They they're trying to get it as fast as they can there were 1.3 million without power. 

Georgia Power has determined Hurricane Helene was the most destructive hurricane in its history damaging infrastructure across the state.

 Initial damage estimates illustrating the extensive destruction of Hurricane Helene include: • 5,000+ power poles that must be repaired or replaced • 9,000+ spans of wire equivalent to an estimated 425 miles • 500+ transformers • 1,500+ trees on power lines that must be removed or addressed to restore power

As of now there are 160 Dead and many missing in NC.. Florida has 109 dead.

My son Dan and his wife work on the Clearwater Beach, and there building had water and sand in their building. It took them 4 days to let owners and employees back to work on their buildings.

2 died from drowning on their beach alone. they were without power for several days. They and their dogs and cats are ok, we just pray they will have a job now.

I WAS ABOUT TO BE BACK ON THE REGULAR BLOG TRAIN BUT NOW WE ARE WAITING FOR ANOTHER HURRICANE... I WILL BE AROUND OFF AND ON AND OFF AND ON