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Outside My Window ~ 8.29.11
I had actually completed this post last night however prior to publishing, I saved it as a draft…and all but this paragraph was gone afterward. 😐 Beyond frustrated because of what happened, I wasn’t up to recreating the entire post so I went to bed. I’m leaving the first paragraph as it was….and will begin it again today. Outside my window ~ 8.28.11…is the close to our first day with no worries over an approaching hurricane. It was a beautiful albeit hot day….blue skies, sunshine and plenty of wind left over. Our forecast high was 91°F and it was still a bit humid since the storm passed. There are leaves, branches and limbs everywhere but surprisingly the trees still look pretty full. The…
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Storm of a lifetime?
We experienced a thunderstorm last night…a nice saturating rain. This was not from Hurricane Irene…this was because of a front that was moving east but stalled west of us. This is the front that is going to steer Hurricane Irene right up the coast to New England…giving us all an extremely soggy and windy hug all the way up. Trust me, no one is particularly excited at the thought…nervous is a better word…a little anxious. I’m not looking forward to long hours of howling winds and rain. We are now under a hurricane warning and a flood watch….a warning means hurricane conditions are imminent in the next 36 hours. I have been accumulating ice and will buy a bag or two on…
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A Weird Week
It has been a weird week…and it isn’t over yet. On Sunday, I found out a dear friend had passed away the night before… On Tuesday, we had an earthquake ~ 5.9 magnitude ~ the strongest quake to hit Virginia in the last 100 years. Yes, Virginia has earthquakes ~ however you normally don’t even notice them. I felt this one yesterday…it was the second time I have experienced an earthquake. I didn’t particularly enjoy it either time. We were in one of the “strong” blobs near near Newport News. And coming attractions ~ Hurricane Irene….closing in on where? Hurricanes are interesting I think…you watch them form and then march across the ocean…