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pshaw_raven) wrote2024-10-10 12:51 pm
pshaw_raven) wrote2024-10-10 12:51 pm
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Let's Not Do That Again
Time for a proper update. So the hurricane is basically over where I live. We still have breezy conditions, the sun peeks through once in a while, but it's stopped raining. I went for a short run earlier and saw no real damage, though part of the road is getting very washed out and rutted. It's nothing the truck can't get through, but I wouldn't want to hit some of these things at speed. Catbirds are highly active today, and I don't think I've seen any all summer. Just - suddenly Catbirds.
The power flickered some around two, but we'd shut down anything that might be sensitive to it, or annoying like the printer. The cats tried to wake me up at 4:30 but since I slept badly, I used the squirt bottle to deter them, and they let me sleep in. Crowley got into bed and snuggled up until around 6:30 when the Barred Owls started territorial calling in the trees just north of the house - a spot I often hear them hanging around. Fox went out to the garage for something and said he disturbed a "hawk sized" bird that flew off silently, so we assume that was one of the Owls.
A lot fewer people are out of power around us than with the previous storm, and a lot of them are already back on. The internet radio towers apparently had no damage, they just didn't have electricity, so we have regular net access again. Things went about as well as we could have hoped for, unlike the folks south of here that really took a major beating. There are already reports of deaths, the roof came off the Tropicana Stadium (oh boy, Katrina flashbacks ...), and there were some places that got TWENTY ONE INCHES of rain. This thing was absolutely terrifying.
We've got the windows open since the temperatures are going to be pleasant until some time next week when it will warm up again - summer's last "fuck you" on the way out. The cats were at first obsessed with sitting in the windows but apparently outside is stupid and boring now, because they're asleep. I'm catching up on some household chores and tasks I couldn't do before, because hurricane anxiety had me so badly I had no executive function and almost no energy.
However, Lt. Dan is fine. Florida-ing legend.
The power flickered some around two, but we'd shut down anything that might be sensitive to it, or annoying like the printer. The cats tried to wake me up at 4:30 but since I slept badly, I used the squirt bottle to deter them, and they let me sleep in. Crowley got into bed and snuggled up until around 6:30 when the Barred Owls started territorial calling in the trees just north of the house - a spot I often hear them hanging around. Fox went out to the garage for something and said he disturbed a "hawk sized" bird that flew off silently, so we assume that was one of the Owls.
A lot fewer people are out of power around us than with the previous storm, and a lot of them are already back on. The internet radio towers apparently had no damage, they just didn't have electricity, so we have regular net access again. Things went about as well as we could have hoped for, unlike the folks south of here that really took a major beating. There are already reports of deaths, the roof came off the Tropicana Stadium (oh boy, Katrina flashbacks ...), and there were some places that got TWENTY ONE INCHES of rain. This thing was absolutely terrifying.
We've got the windows open since the temperatures are going to be pleasant until some time next week when it will warm up again - summer's last "fuck you" on the way out. The cats were at first obsessed with sitting in the windows but apparently outside is stupid and boring now, because they're asleep. I'm catching up on some household chores and tasks I couldn't do before, because hurricane anxiety had me so badly I had no executive function and almost no energy.
However, Lt. Dan is fine. Florida-ing legend.
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Also, I had to look up what a catbird is, as at first I thought there in Florida there was some sort of Floridian mutant species or something. But it's just a pretty cute little bird. I guess they were also hunkering down during the chaos.
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