Update: Hurricane Irma and Me
Sep 12, 2017 12:02:52 #
Happy to say I, my family and circle of friends are all safe.
Irma began to weaken as she made landfall, by the time she arrived here on the Gulf coast north of Saint Petersburg, she was a Category 2.
All of our homes are safe. I am the only one left in the family without electricity or my land-line phone. That probably means that I don't have cable or internet either, but without electric that doesn't matter. I am now at my mothers home catching up on emails, charging cell phone and laptop batteries and relocating food from my freezer to hers. Duke Energy says they are still investigating the situation before they can make repairs.
Thanks to all that offered kind thoughts.
Irma began to weaken as she made landfall, by the time she arrived here on the Gulf coast north of Saint Petersburg, she was a Category 2.
All of our homes are safe. I am the only one left in the family without electricity or my land-line phone. That probably means that I don't have cable or internet either, but without electric that doesn't matter. I am now at my mothers home catching up on emails, charging cell phone and laptop batteries and relocating food from my freezer to hers. Duke Energy says they are still investigating the situation before they can make repairs.
Thanks to all that offered kind thoughts.
Sep 12, 2017 12:18:57 #
Sep 12, 2017 12:30:14 #
blue-ultra wrote:
Best wishes to you for a speedy recovery from the storm.
Thank you very much. We are the lucky ones - there are so many less fotunate.
Sep 12, 2017 15:11:51 #
So glad to know that you and your family are safe, Madman, and I hope your power is soon restored. Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected.
Sep 12, 2017 16:36:04 #
Thank you for the update Larry, so pleased you and yours are safe. Thoughts and prayers for others caught up in Irma.
Sep 12, 2017 18:02:59 #
Sep 13, 2017 09:19:57 #
Sep 13, 2017 17:46:36 #
Dixiegirl wrote:
So glad to know that you and your family are safe, Madman, and I hope your power is soon restored. Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected.
Thank you very much Dixiegirl. We are all safe, probably two days away from having electricity back.
Sep 13, 2017 17:48:10 #
Sylvias wrote:
Thank you for the update Larry, so pleased you and yours are safe. Thoughts and prayers for others caught up in Irma.
Thank you very much Sylvia for you kind thoughts.
Sep 13, 2017 17:55:01 #
birdmann wrote:
Good luck and speedy repairs.
Thank you very much birdman.
Glad to say that I really don't have any repairs to make - some small branches from the trees but that's it. Worst problem is the food left in my refrigerator all needs to be thrown out and replaced. I had just made my monthly shopping trip to the commissary at MacDill AFB. I buy about a months worth of meat and frozen goods, about half of that is in my daughters freezer, the rest at my mothers. I'd rather give it away than throw it away. Looks like I am about two days away from getting power back.
I am grateful that the situation was not worse.
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