Posting Mainly for Family and Friends – Irma pre-arrival report
This is probably nearing the end of my having an Internet connection. We are are ready as we can be at this point. All it’s going to take is one limb on a power line nearby. I suppose there is more that we could have done but time has run out. For example we don’t have a generator. I’m sure that we will lose electrical power and that means no water since we have a well. We have a considerable amount of water stored for drinking, spit baths, and minimal toilet flushing. We have a weather radio and an AM/FM radio both with battery backup. We have storm protection on each window, and strong garage doors. The 45 minutes or less it takes us to secure the storm shutters turned into 6 hours. For a while I didn’t think I’d be able to make them secure at all. I could not figure out the problem and was beginning to jury rig. Then Terrie (brighter than me) realized that when we had the house painted earlier this year, the painters must have gotten their sealer into both the locking rods and the key locks. Without them, the shutters would just flop around! I was strongly reminded that “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley” as Robert Burns reminds us in his poem “To A Mouse.” Gang aft a-gley = often go astray. That was yesterday for sure. It took a lot of time and a lot of solvent to get things working! I had been so full of pride and satisfaction for having the sense, in 2005, to invest in shutters (instead of other things I would have rather had) but those convenient, costly things were a lot of work this time. We were exhausted. I just took it for granted that it would be an easy job as usual. Duhhhhhhhhh
Tonie
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