“Your response to any major event will only be as good as you have planned.”
The sun was out when I woke up but has since disappeared. Partly cloudy is the forecast. Right now it is fully cloudy. It is 82˚, another hot day. We are under a hurricane watch. It has been 30 years since Bob, our last landfall hurricane. The powers that be are now tracking Henri which has the potential to be an historic event for New England. It all depends on the storm’s track. Sunday could be the big day.
I have a small grocery order being delivered today. The dogs’ canned food didn’t arrive so I ordered a few cans for the meantime and some storm provisions for me: chocolate chip cookies, potato chips and more bananas which I’ll hide from Nala. Tomorrow I’ll head for the dump.
I didn’t wash my kitchen floor anticipating rain yesterday and more paw prints, but I am at a breaking point. I need, for my psychological well being, to wash the floor today. It is a disgusting mess of prints, pine needles, leaves and box pieces Nala drags in and out of the house. Her latest prize is an empty milk container.
When I was a kid, hurricane Carol hit us. I was seven. I remember it well because my sister Moe had just been born and was being kept in the hospital for which my parents were relieved. We lost electricity. We also lost the giant elm tree from across the street. It fell and covered the road with its topmost branches. My father took my brother and me out during the storm’s eye so we could see the tree. We climbed around the branches and stood on the small part of the trunk still in the ground.
I remember Hurricane Bob. It hit in August 1991 and wreaked havoc on the cape destroying houses and trees and even roads. We had no electricity for days. So many trees fell the roads were impassable, and people were stuck inside their houses. I could hear the whirr of electric saws cutting into the trunks of trees and lopping off branches from the trees on the roads and no other sounds. It was almost eerie like the soundtrack from a horror movie. Crews came from off cape to help. Nothing was open. I was glad I had provisioned. I even had plenty of charcoal and cooked up some good meals. What I didn’t have was a coffee pot safe to use over charcoal. I have one now.
The sun is out. It is the partly sunny portion of the day.
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August 20, 2021 at 1:57 pm
Rather pleasant weather over here today, a bit of everything and just enough warm, around 68F. It’ll stay much the same during the weekend but perhaps without any rain for once 🙂
The kast two bad storms or hurricanes we had were in 2005 and 2007. The first one, called Gudrun, created havoc all over southern Sweden and some places didn’t get back the power until two months after, the hurricane 2007 was called Per and it was just as bad. Here however we had no power for two hours as most 🙂 🙂 and since I live as I do I could hear the sound of it but no wind reached my home or garden, it was really odd. Thankfully my neighbors cottage and garage took all the wind instead.
Have a great day!
Christer.
August 20, 2021 at 10:32 pm
Christer,
It stayed humid all day. I turned on the AC as the house was getting uncomfortable. Just a bit ago, I turned off the AC and opened windows. It is a nice cool night at 72˚. The hurricane watch is still in effect.
Bob was devastating here, but we have been lucky since then. The hurricanes have all been to the Southern US like Katrina destroying New Orleans. With Bob I was without lights for a couple of weeks.
Wish us well!!
Take care!
August 20, 2021 at 2:23 pm
Hi Kat,
Hopefully, Hurricane Henri will change course by Sunday and remain out in the Atlantic. Today is sunny with a predicted high temperature of 94°. The humidity will be high because of all the rain we’ve had the past few days has saturated the ground.
We’re too far from the coast to experience hurricanes. However, living through one Enhanced Fujita Scale 3 tornado and one subzero Fahrenheit ice storm without power is enough excitement for one lifetime. I would think that flooding from the storm surge would be your biggest problem should the Cape take a direct hit from Henri. Could you get trapped for days on the sencond floor should the area really flood?
The eeriest thing I can remember was coming to work during the days after 9/11. Our training center overlooks the huge DFW airport and seeing no airplane movements for five days. I thought about that must have been what the sky was like before the invention of the airplane.
August 20, 2021 at 11:02 pm
Hi Bob,
I hope it does change course and move inland. It would then be downgraded to a tropical storm. With all the pine trees, the wind can do tremendous damage. They have shallow roots and are often the first victims of the wind.
I am not in the flood zone. For that I am glad given how much the house insurance is for houses in the flood zone. The road just below mine always floods into yards and driveways. I am too high for it to reach me. The house next door has its backyard and cellar flooded in heavy rain.
I can go weeks without seeing a plane fly overhead. The closest airport is Hyannis, and my house is not on any flight path. What I notice is no cars on the road. That is quiet.
August 20, 2021 at 7:29 pm
Good luck!
August 20, 2021 at 11:02 pm
Thanks, Birgit
August 20, 2021 at 8:28 pm
Hi Kat,
The last local weather report I heard said Henri had shifted a tiny bit but not enough. The New York weather report said that Henri going out to sea was a non-starter. I have meat and vegetables, ice cream, some chocolate, chips and whipped cream cheese. I might be okay. The dogs have plenty of food, too. Plus there are hot dogs and beans.
I was going to suggest that you teach Nala to trade her stolen things for high value treats like pieces of banana (sorry 😀 ) or pieces of hot dogs. I had to do that with my old dog Tegan. Unfortunately, it occurs to me that Nala may be somewhat like Tegan in that she will learn to steal things and bring them to you in order to get the treats. However, if Tegan really wanted to destroy something, she did not steal it in a way that was noticeable or she took it into her crate and refused to trade. She knew her crate was sacrosanct and she could not be punished if she was in it. So, you should probably not try that with Nala. Forget I mentioned it. 😀
I’ve been out every morning this week. Tomorrow we won’t go to the lake because they are going to the groomer instead. Sunday we won’t be going anywhere, probably, because Henri.
Enjoy the day.
August 20, 2021 at 11:12 pm
Hi Caryn,
I have some different packages of cookies and chips. My freezer is filled with food, and I had a small food delivery today. My iPad is charged and filled with books. I’m all set.
I try to convince Nala that what I have is better than what she has. She dropped the bread, and I gave her a treat. In a flash, she picked up the bread again and took off. I did get the loaf, and it was okay, but it cost me another treat. She is tricky.
Today was the only day I’ve stayed home. I’m going to a friend’s house for dinner tomorrow. On Sunday I have no plans with the storm coming. Monday is my last uke concert in Hyannis.
Have a great Saturday!~