we survived the hurricane. we were only out of power for 7 days (originally we were told 4 weeks). while we had fun being creative with food (a lot of BBQ'ing and dutch oven dinners and eating food storage) and getting ready for bed and reading by candlelight (grant loved this, and his favorite was getting to blow out the candles), we were very grateful for electricity on day 7 (and not not have to listen to the generators anymore). even though the weather was awesome and it was fun hanging out with our friends and neighbors, let's hear it for the end of hurricane season (no more empty grocery store shelves and waiting in line for gas).
it was hard to sleep friday night with all the howling wind. we put grant to sleep in our closet, the safest place in our house, in case our house ripped in two. it was spooky to experience the calmness of the eye and then have the wind and rain return. the tree in the front of our house bent quite a bit in the wind but thankfully didn't break. grant loved watching movies with us on our portable dvd player while we waited for power to return. this radio was AWESOME (llbean) for listening to updates. to see more of the hurricane damage, our friends took awesome pictures around our community. go to http://mmproudfoot.blogspot.com/.
