Saturday, September 13, 2008

Batten Down the Hatches

Watching the news from storm to storm makes me wonder. Are we gonna get hit this season? We've had some particularly brutal thunderstorms over the past few months, with some pretty heavy winds. And they were just storms. One ripped our shed right off the foundation and threw it across the yard...everything inside scattered in twenty different directions. Now, we have noplace to hide the garbage pails from the raccoons, who'll even rip into the paper recyclable pail...you'd think they could smell which one really holds food. Anyway...get ready, it's hurricane season!

2 comments:

Nan Patience said...

They keep saying that sooner or later, we're going to get hit with a big one (or maybe three judging by what's going on in the Atlantic)...

We'll only have a couple of days to decide what to take and what to leave behind and to batten down the hatches as best we can...

Does anyone else have their emergency kits, extra cash, and our papers in order? We don't.

j-m said...

Um...perhaps not as ready as we should be.

Some years ago, while living in Quogue, we were evacuated because of the Westhampton wildfires. We had kept hosing down our property, and had burning embers on the lawn, which was like straw from the drought we'd had that summer. I packed the car to the roof, with family photos, clothes for a few days, anything valuable...it's really hard to decide what to take!