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I finally fell asleep at around 5:30 a.m. Sunday. It was during the worst of Hurricane Jeanne, but I couldn't hold my eyelids open any longer, after having been up since 7 a.m. Saturday morning.
It was loud outside. It sounded like a war zone, with swishing trees, relentless, howling winds and the occasional explosion of a electrical transformer outside. From what I could tell, we experienced up to 70 mph wind gusts. Even 12 hours after Jeanne passed, we were still getting wind gusts up to 40 mph, to my amazement. When would it end?
But we and our house made it out just fine. There were a few branches and limbs in our front and back yards. Two oak tree limbs in our back yard that had been damaged by Hurricane Charley, which were just barely hanging on, came completely down. Fortunately, they didn't hit anything. They're too big for us to move, so it's just a matter of having someone come out and take them away. The pool screen, to my relief, is completely intact.
A section of the next-door neighbor's privacy fence, which was repaired less than a week ago, was lying on its side this morning. I could see into their house from their back patio.
We lost power at 10 a.m. Sunday. We spent Sunday night by candlelight, listening to the Buccaneers game on a battery-powered boombox. It was either the game or relentless Jeanne news on every other station. At that point, I was sick of hearing the same news over and over again and just wanted some normal programming. For dinner, we had what the BF had prepared for us for work earlier in the week: grilled chicken breasts, canned corn and vegetarian baked beans -- cold, because we couldn't heat them up. I was starving, so they tasted great. The fridge was getting warmer by the hour, and we were trying to eat the perishables before they went bad. I think I've had my fill of fat-free yogurt cups.
One good thing about not being able to go anywhere was that I ate well yesterday, which made up for the day before, when I had fettucine alfredo The Company had ordered in for the staff.
I'm typing this from a local Internet cafe. Hopefully, our power will be back by the time we get home.
Current mood: Awake
Replies: 4 shoutouts
LOL -- Steve said the same thing when we were there!!!
Posted by Huffy @ 10/06/2004 12:38 AM EST
Does everyone who enters that Internet cafe say, "Hey, Austin Coffee and Film!"
Posted by UFscoops @ 09/30/2004 01:32 AM EST
I was busy preparing my rap for this coming Wednesday.
Posted by Huffy @ 09/27/2004 10:55 PM EST
Winter Park is local? Were ya there for the open-mic poetry?
Posted by ~ @ 09/27/2004 07:47 PM EST