This hurricane business started off with me being sick. I had a fever and a cold, which I am now happily getting over. So, I was glad that we were off on Thursday and Friday. Little did I know the horror my Labor Day weekend would hold.
First off, Frances was the slowest moving storm ever. It wasn’t until Saturday that we experienced some powerful wind and rain. After riding through Mount Dora, I will say that our neighborhood held up well. I also heard that Volusia was hit pretty hard too. We probably won’t go back to school till Monday. We only lost a few shingles on the house, but our power went out early Saturday morning.
We spent the next few days extremely uncomfortable. With 7 people in the house, no air, and no hot water we all were irritable. I couldn’t sleep. We all were napping on the floors under the windows. It was awful. To top it off, our neighbors were running a monster of a generator. It sounded as if a huge semi was parked by our front door. I thought surely we’ll have power by Monday. Nope. Monday came and went, then all day Tuesday. It was that night that we were teased. The power came on for 5 seconds and all were screamin’ praises. Then the great power god decided that we were not worthy and shut it off. We took this as a sign of hope…that they were working on the power and it should be on in a few minutes. Well, 30 minutes later we all went to bed- still no power.
Now after several days of feeling gross, I decided to open my bedroom window while I slept. I woke 5 minutes later to find a slug creeping up my wall. Eewww. I now also, have an ant infestation problem. They are living in my computer and swarming my surge protector. Aaarrrggg!
Anyways, the power finally came on around 3pm today. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
I am now engaged in a CSI marathon and simultaneously trying to bring death upon as many ants as possible. I will now leave you with that. And if you don’t have power….i feel your pain.
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