Okay. I have been hunkered down for 72 hours and I was getting cabin fever so I went out to Dunkin' Donuts (the only place I found open). The wind has really died down, the rain is off again-on again. We have had no damage to our house. Got a couple of pix. Hope the people in the northern part of the state fare as well as we did.
I can't BELIEVE how many trees are down for a storm that did not exceed 125MPH at land fall.
Here I am paging and asking you about hurricanes and do you have a blog yet, and the answer to both arrives in a URL!
I love this...gumbo limbo, Frances and all.
Nice to see you again virtually, after New Orleans so many cold rainy days ago.
Aisha
Posted by: aisha | Sunday, September 05, 2004 at 03:58 PM
Aisha,
Mother Nature played a trick on me, took away my electricity just as I was paging you, telling you how I'd been spared. Luckily, she was just kidding and it came back on. Millions are without though in the aftermath of the storm.
Carol
Posted by: Carol | Sunday, September 05, 2004 at 05:13 PM
I'm glad you survived in good fashion. And can post it on your blog. Very nice. I realize that not all have the same hurricane experience but I usually enjoyed them. Of course, it wasn't always a crime to go out in them and explore. I liked going to the beach and watching the usually calm late summer ocean during a storm. Waves crashing sometimes almost to A1A. After the storm the beaches were so changed. Shelling became easier. Anyway, give my best to all the family.
Posted by: Jay | Sunday, September 05, 2004 at 09:30 PM
Hey Carol. So great to hear that you're OK. My brother in-law and family are all safe in Guatemala (he, on business, his wife and daughter decided to join him for some reason ;-) Great pictures! So wonderful to see your smiling face.
RT
Posted by: Ranger Teper | Sunday, September 05, 2004 at 10:06 PM
Carol, glad to find the blog, to see you aree OK. I heard of the hurricane in Florida and immediately thought of you ( thought of Chris, too...where is that boy?).
Cool blog; excellent, if showing the destructive power of nature) pictures.
Paula
Posted by: Paula | Tuesday, September 07, 2004 at 01:26 AM
Hey Carol. Hope your doing OK after Frances, and that you have time to read this. Anyway, I was reading your "About Me" info and the part about weeding the collection reminded my of a novel by Connie Willis (a great writer who, unfortunately, has been pigeon-holed in the SF category and who deserves better... but I digress) called "Bellwhether." In it, the main character likes to go to the library and sign out various classics--not to read but just so they get signed out once in a while, to avoid getting "weeded."
Take care,
Peter
Posted by: Ranger Teper | Tuesday, September 07, 2004 at 10:38 AM
Peter! Good stuff. I enjoyed your reference to Connie Willis' weeding anecdote. It's true librarian activism. I have "pretended" that a book has been checked out once or twice myself (ssshh!) in order to keep it on the shelf. Why throw away Black Beauty just because no student in two years thought it worth their while?
Carol
Posted by: Carol | Tuesday, September 07, 2004 at 04:39 PM