Ladies in that area, I hope you are all safe! I am thinking of you! Keeping my eye on that next system.....

By Karen~moderator on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 07:38 am:

I hate summer for this reason! LOL Power just came back on. Lots of wind and rain, I've been up since 2. I heard it coming through, and I'm such a sissy about storms. LOL Actually, I went outside about 2:45 this morning to see *how bad* it was - and I caught 3 of my neighbors doing the same thing! It wasn't bad, but the wind scares me and there's a lot of tree debris and stuff to clean up. I did notice that the Little Tykes thing in the back yard for Madison almost lost it's roof - we were really unprepared - call us clueless.

*IF* we still get to go on vacatin Saturday, we have to worry about DENNIS hitting the New Orleans area rather than FL - don't know which is worse at this point! But I guess we should put some things out of harms way before we leave, if we can leave.

DH is jealous - he couldn't have coffee this morning, so he drove to work @ 5 AM. *I* have coffee!!!!

Thanks for thinking of us - I'm sure all of us in this area are fine, this didn't even make it to hurricane strength, so that's good news. The one to watch now is DENNIS.

By Kernkate on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 09:16 am:

I was watching the weather channel and was also thinking of you Karen.
Hope all works out well for you vacation on Saturday.
I hope everyone else who is in Cindy's path is weathering the storm.

By Kaye on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 09:34 am:

The irony of all this is, here in houston we have had one 5 minute rain shower in the past 40ish days, we desperately need rain. We were all hoping for cindy to hit here!

By Karen~moderator on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 10:20 am:

I went to work and the power was off so I came home and cleaned up the yard. I was amazed at the number of trees and power lines/poles down and the roofs blown off of small structures! This was only the OUTSIDE edge of a tropical storm! I worry about the next one......

I'm waiting for my boss to call and say the power is on and I'll go back to the office. I figured why sit there in the dark and sweat when I could be busy at home?

By Paulas on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 01:50 pm:

We were under a tornado watch here in Northern Alberta yesterday but luckily nothing came from it.

By Pamt on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 03:08 pm:

We didn't get a single drop of rain in Baton Rouge. I was actually looking forward to at least a few good squalls. DH just turned on the sprinkler out front. *sigh*

By Karen~moderator on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - 05:59 pm:

We had 6" here, Pam - want some of it? LOL