Almost Back!
Hello fine people. Thank you first for your well wishes. Thankfully our home was spared any real damage. We are still without electricity, and that is a real pain, but other than that, we made it through wonderfully. There are so many here though that did not. Being without power I have not seen all of the destruction myself but I have been listening to my radio and now today, started to see some actual photos and video footage. It is going to be a long, long time before things here are back to normal.
Doug my friend, I believe your plans for Bolivar have most likely been altered. There is no Bolivar anymore. Everything has been wiped out and I am told it looks like it did when they first started to develop it many years ago. It is a real shame because it was a very nice and special place.
I have a generator that we borrowed from a friend last night. That is the only way I am online now. We were only able to get some ice two days ago. It has been very scarce until just recently. We lost everything we had in our freezer and fridge. I have not worked in a week because power has been out there too. I received a call however that it came back on about 2 hours ago so at least I will be back at work on Monday. That will help. I never thought I would ever be anxious to go back to work but after a week here without any power I am ready for the change. My wife's job has their own backup generators and have not missed a day of work other than the day the storm blew through.
I did not take many pictures. I just was not in the mood. I was too nervous just waiting for the windows to blow out or the roof to lift off of the house. It was a very nerve wracking 10 or 12 hours there. I did snap a few and will post them here now. Nothing great and you really don't need to waste time with any C&C. I only took them to capture just an instant in our life and it's really one that would probably be best just forgotten. That won't happen so it will just serve as a reminder for me to be better prepared next time and to buy my own generator
The first was taken at about 5:00am last Saturday morning. We were just getting the full force of the storm at that time. It is a bit deceiving because it was really very dark. It was a 30 second exposure though and it brought in a lot more light than I knew was there. The second was just a shot of my wife trying to act normal and making me some coffee in the middle of a hurricane. Her blurred movement seemed fitting for the moment. Our stove is natural gas and we never lost that thank goodness so we were able to cook, boil water, and even take a nice hot shower. The little things I hope never to take for granted again. I am sure we will once things are back to normal but hopefully not and hopefully we can remember the things we talked about and the things we felt during this event. Once it was over, after all of those long hours of uncertainty, we both just sort of slumped over each other and cried a bit because we had come through so luckily without major loss and without injury or worse.
