Another Storm
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livingdebWe had another big storm last night. With hail again. Does it always hail somewhere when there's a big storm and I never noticed before, or is this a recent development?
There was no hail at my house, but the last tree shading my house fell over. Onto the neighbors' car. Their only car. Nearly paid off. Toyota--was supposed to last them a long time. Crunch. Splat.
The roots on a tree over 30 feet high should be more than two feet long, don't you think? Chinaberries--don't trust them.
So, is it a car insurance thing or a house insurance thing? The neighbors' car insurance company said that it was a house insurance thing, so they are calling my insurance company.
Tonight, there is supposed to be another equally horrible storm, during my sister's wedding rehearsal dinner.
After all this rain, the ground is getting quite saturated. There's a flash-flood watch through tomorrow. It may rain again tomorrow afternoon, during my sister's garden wedding. (Yes, she has tents.)
Meanwhile, after ballroom dance last night, we went grocery shopping. So we were at the store during the most exciting, crash-causing part of the storm. Then we drove through the flood waters in Robin's new truck that was ridiculously jacked up by the previous owner. Then Robin noticed there was a tree in the neighbor's yard. Then I noticed there was a big empty space in our yard.
Then we noticed that we had no electricity. We put all our cold things we had just bought in the cooler, because the fridge can do a pretty good job with no electricity for a while so long as you don't open it. We were good and didn't open it.
We didn't open it again this morning, when the electricity was still out. (News sources say 25,000 people lost electricity and half had it back this morning. They also say there were gusts of wind of 60 MPH and more--I believe you can call them hurricane-force when they reach 65 MPH.) Robin cooked the chicken, though, on our gas stove. And we got to know our neighbors a little better, which is nice because they are so wonderfully likable.
I'm feeling a little stressed, though. Now I'm at work, wondering if there's electricity at my house, and wondering how the insurance negotiations are going. Also I'm in charge of reservations for tomorrow at a place that doesn't take reservations, but they will take your name, but not until 4:30 tomorrow. I'm also wondering about my car, which I should have had brought in earlier but finally had brought in the day before yesterday, and it would have been nice to have been done in time for this rehearsal, or in time for my other job next week, or so that I could lend it to my neighbors.
But I'm not stressed about my daily entry, and I do not owe my blog buddy a cookie.
There was no hail at my house, but the last tree shading my house fell over. Onto the neighbors' car. Their only car. Nearly paid off. Toyota--was supposed to last them a long time. Crunch. Splat.
The roots on a tree over 30 feet high should be more than two feet long, don't you think? Chinaberries--don't trust them.
So, is it a car insurance thing or a house insurance thing? The neighbors' car insurance company said that it was a house insurance thing, so they are calling my insurance company.
Tonight, there is supposed to be another equally horrible storm, during my sister's wedding rehearsal dinner.
After all this rain, the ground is getting quite saturated. There's a flash-flood watch through tomorrow. It may rain again tomorrow afternoon, during my sister's garden wedding. (Yes, she has tents.)
Meanwhile, after ballroom dance last night, we went grocery shopping. So we were at the store during the most exciting, crash-causing part of the storm. Then we drove through the flood waters in Robin's new truck that was ridiculously jacked up by the previous owner. Then Robin noticed there was a tree in the neighbor's yard. Then I noticed there was a big empty space in our yard.
Then we noticed that we had no electricity. We put all our cold things we had just bought in the cooler, because the fridge can do a pretty good job with no electricity for a while so long as you don't open it. We were good and didn't open it.
We didn't open it again this morning, when the electricity was still out. (News sources say 25,000 people lost electricity and half had it back this morning. They also say there were gusts of wind of 60 MPH and more--I believe you can call them hurricane-force when they reach 65 MPH.) Robin cooked the chicken, though, on our gas stove. And we got to know our neighbors a little better, which is nice because they are so wonderfully likable.
I'm feeling a little stressed, though. Now I'm at work, wondering if there's electricity at my house, and wondering how the insurance negotiations are going. Also I'm in charge of reservations for tomorrow at a place that doesn't take reservations, but they will take your name, but not until 4:30 tomorrow. I'm also wondering about my car, which I should have had brought in earlier but finally had brought in the day before yesterday, and it would have been nice to have been done in time for this rehearsal, or in time for my other job next week, or so that I could lend it to my neighbors.
But I'm not stressed about my daily entry, and I do not owe my blog buddy a cookie.
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on 2006-05-08 10:16 pm (UTC)Where was I? ....Austin. Yep. Same city.
I think it is the frequency of recent storms. They are all just running together in my head. One storm = hail = the next storm = oh hum.
I'm sorry about your loss of electricity. Obviously you should move North. Our electricity was fine.