So, the remnants of Hurricane Ike rolled through the Northcoast yesterday.  What a wild ride!  From the  winds that ripped through here, I can’t even imagine what it was like down in the Gulf.   I think they said our winds were 60mph gusting to 75.  To think of doubling that is just insane.  Oddly enough, I can see why some people in the gulf choose not to evacuate.  There is something strangly exciting about watching the storm.  I know we all stood out there in the strong winds just watching.  Knowing full well something could fly into us at any moment….yet our eyes glued to the sky.  Just weird.

Thousands are without power here.  We’re actually one of the lucky streets…we half 1/2 power.  Yes, 1/2.  Each house has half their power working and half out.  So like 1/2 our living room is working, half not.  Of course the t.v. half is not.  I figured this out after flipping every breaker and then having my neighbor come and tell us we all had the same problem. 

So we decided to run a bunch of extension cords to keep the fridge on so our food didn’t spoil.  In fact, our home could be the poster child for fire department safety videos….and what NOT to do.  There’s cords all over the place, with a few plugs running too many things. 

The kids were very upset this morning because a lot of schools were closed and theirs wasn’t.  So it was like Hurricane Kaylee leaving the house this morning:  “Every other flippin’ school in Ohio is closed…but not ours“…..”I can’t change my flippin’ nose ring because there’s no flippin’ power in the bathroom!”

Middle Child and Alan must have had a really fun flippin’ ride to school!  I bet it was flippin’ great!

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