Wow.
You want to talk about a “perfect
storm”.
After a week of more or less solid rain
we were expecting up to 10 inches more over the past weekend with all
the moisture Joaquin was funneling into the air and said moisture
being sucked in over us by a high level low pressure and just as it
was beginning to come down the winds really picked up and the trees
began to fall …
Needless to say power outages began to
occur and phone lines began to fail.
To top it off our modem decided that
then was the time to give over the ghost and up and died right in the
middle of one of the Mrs.' Rom-Com's.
Being of Scots heritage we still have
the first penny we found on the ground (OK, so we have a few more,
now), and we have the equipment maintenance plan with our ISP so we
got a new modem 'free' but we had to wait three to five business days
for it to be delivered so we were unable to post until it arrived and
we plugged it in.
We could have went out and bought one
but we still have our money because we do not run willy-nilly and buy
something we have already paid for so we waited - with the constant
rain we decided we would rather stay dry anyway.
Luckily we did not have any outages
here but the neighbors lost power and phone service so we became
emergency central for all the neighbors seeking assistance in getting
their power and/or phone turned back on asap.
What was noticeable during all this was
that friends and neighbors stayed positive – after a week of no
sunshine that can be a feat in of itself – some even turned the
situation into an impromptu 'soggy bottom' party because they argued
that since their asses were getting wet anyway why not have fun with
it. Even though we had resolved to remain dry we did go to the party
at a local eatery and let our asses 'get wet' as it were with our
friends.
It was good to be around positive
people especially since it seems that all the negativity is glorified
today along with the stupidity … don't you think the last 35 years
of ever more negativity and increasing stupidity is enough?
The severity of the weather was not
quite as bad as predicted locally which was a good thing – the
damages were light when compared to the possible damages the weather
could have inflicted so all in all life here was hardly interrupted.
Be Happy and Have Fun
