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We finally got our power back on tonight. I thought it was going to be yet another "romantic" evening by candlelight. We lost it at 7:30 pm on Sunday and it was fun and games after that. This morning, they were saying that it might be as long as seven days, but Duke Energy said "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" and there was light.. The neighbor's very loud generator was running 24 hours a day outside our bedroom window so I was glad we weren't trying to sleep with that going.
I feel so bad for the people on the east coast who might not get power back until this weekend and even worse for the people on the west coast who are being told NEXT Friday...maybe.... I hope they get helped earlier than that.
We went outside during lulls in the storm to try to clear the storm drain at the corner of our property. The water was backing up at an alarming rate, so it had to be done. Next time, I'll just let it flood. That is just too scary to do again.
Outside of a lot of debris to be cleaned up, our only damage was to the tiny little bit of the water pipe coming into the house that is exposed. Naturally, something did a direct hit on that and now it's squirting water out. So, we have to go out and turn the water on and off whenever we need water in the house. I can live with that, though, until we can get to Home Depot and get more pipe. Hot shower tomorrow morning! WOO-HOO! I picked up palm fronds all morning and managed to get bit by some fire ants. Ouch.
We had some neighbors lose shingles and there are some big trees down in the neighborhood, but all-in-all we were very, very lucky.
We took most of the plywood down this morning (so nice not to be living in a tomb) except for one piece that we couldn't unscrew by hand as they were put in by an impact driver into cement. Will take it down tomorrow with the power screwdriver (which of course needed charging, which of course wasn't happening without power).
Very glad to get through Irma unscathed and ask for your thoughts and prayers for those who didn't. Areas of the Keys were decimated and, of course, the west coast got hit hard. There was a lot of water damage all over the state.
I'm going to pick up my little quasi-granddaughter tomorrow morning and take her somewhere to get her out of her mother's hair. Apparently she has major cabin fever and needs her quasi-grandmother's attention. Businesses should have power by tomorrow, I hope.
I feel so bad for the people on the east coast who might not get power back until this weekend and even worse for the people on the west coast who are being told NEXT Friday...maybe.... I hope they get helped earlier than that.
We went outside during lulls in the storm to try to clear the storm drain at the corner of our property. The water was backing up at an alarming rate, so it had to be done. Next time, I'll just let it flood. That is just too scary to do again.
Outside of a lot of debris to be cleaned up, our only damage was to the tiny little bit of the water pipe coming into the house that is exposed. Naturally, something did a direct hit on that and now it's squirting water out. So, we have to go out and turn the water on and off whenever we need water in the house. I can live with that, though, until we can get to Home Depot and get more pipe. Hot shower tomorrow morning! WOO-HOO! I picked up palm fronds all morning and managed to get bit by some fire ants. Ouch.
We had some neighbors lose shingles and there are some big trees down in the neighborhood, but all-in-all we were very, very lucky.
We took most of the plywood down this morning (so nice not to be living in a tomb) except for one piece that we couldn't unscrew by hand as they were put in by an impact driver into cement. Will take it down tomorrow with the power screwdriver (which of course needed charging, which of course wasn't happening without power).
Very glad to get through Irma unscathed and ask for your thoughts and prayers for those who didn't. Areas of the Keys were decimated and, of course, the west coast got hit hard. There was a lot of water damage all over the state.
I'm going to pick up my little quasi-granddaughter tomorrow morning and take her somewhere to get her out of her mother's hair. Apparently she has major cabin fever and needs her quasi-grandmother's attention. Businesses should have power by tomorrow, I hope.
epper:Like you, our damage was minimal. Happy for you.
