Well, no real hurricane news to report yet. The winds are blowing about 40 mph, but they're not consistent. We should feel more effects later. I think that it's going to hit us in the middle of the night. We have had a few flickers of the lights, but still have electricity as of now...9:45 PM.
Jeremy and I got up at 6:00 AM to finish cleaning up the yard of any possible projectiles. We put everything in the shed that would fit, took the net off of the trampoline, turned Parker's swingset over on it's side and burned the limbs that we had already put in a pile. We left the house about 1:15 PM.
We were going to stay at Mike and Heather's house and have a hurricane party, but called them earlier today and they decided to evacuate. :) Heather being 8 months pregnant, decided last minute that she didn't want to be here through the storm, but mostly she didn't want to be here through the heat after the electricity went out. We're staying over at my parents house in town because we didn't want to be in our mobile home with such high winds.
We had some excitement earlier today. Dad had a big pile of limbs in the side yard and decided to burn it. Because everything was so dry, the flames went pretty high. A few minutes later we see a fire truck driving up...and then another one...and then a cop...and another cop...then a jeep and suburban from the fire department. Dad is spraying the fire with the water hose as they drive up. Apparently someone from the neighborhood saw the fire and called the fire department when all we were doing was burning limbs. It was crazy.
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