Still no damn D batteries anywhere. When am I going to learn to stock this stuff up before an emergency???
The guy in the condo beside us has come for the weekend. I think
he’s from Maryland or somewhere further north. I don’t know too much
about him but we’re all friendly. He acts like it’s not going to be a
big deal but he’s tying down his picnic table and throwing sandbags in
front of the condo where it always floods during a storm whether it’s a
small one or a large one. He rents out his condo over the summers to
tourists but this was his weekend there. Some weekend. There’s two
other families who live in these condos, the rest are for tourists. The
one older guy on one side might be still in the hospital but his
girlfriend is there at the house. I see her every now and then, don’t
know whether she’s weathering out the storm or not. Then there’s this
real cool guy on the other side. He is 82 and more fit than I am
believe that or not. I love him to death. I don’t know whether he’s
going to weather it out or not but my hunch is that he is knowing him.
The tourists are still here in a few condos and my hunch on that is that
they paid over a thousand bucks to rent these things, they’re staying.
Now this is of course if we don’t have a mandatory evacuation.
If we do, we really have no plan. Get off the island with as much
personal possessions as we can. They’ll close the causeway at some
point. They have the local police call everyone listed in their
directory in case of an emergency and I must call them to put my cell
number on that list.
The daughter went out and bought more supplies – she found D
batteries! We’re good there and she bought another flashlight which now
we’ve got 3. Four if I can find the other one. Candles. I have a
few, but the daughter is allergic to scented candles so we’ll just have
to make do with what we have. I have tea lights if worse gets to worse.
Food. Well I feel I need more. I have a few canned products, water,
drinks but if electricity goes out, we’re screwed because there’s a lot
of food in the refrigerator and freezer. We’re busy cleaning out the
bottom room that acts like a storage room outside and we grabbed a
couple of coolers in case we have to stock up on ice.
Dogs. Problem problem. Cassie is dying. She has cancer and we were
going to put her down but the daughter said no, let’s do it after the
storm that she couldn’t take on anymore stress. I sent BF out to get
some more pain pills for her and explained to the vet that we were going
to put her down this week but it’s going to have to be next week. I
just wanted some pills to keep her in not so much pain. We only got 1/2
bottle this time.
As of right now, it’s noon on Thursday and a little blustery at this
point. There’s supposed to be a cold front that may push Irene further
west but we don’t know it’s going to do that. It’s always windy here so
I can’t really tell if this is normal, from the cold front, or from
Irene.
Am I scared? Yes.
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