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Want to see what Aaron got me for my birthday? Too bad. I'm gonna show you anyway.
http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/digitalS3000Overview.jsp?item=I628338&dbid=628338&urltype=overview
I'm so psyched to get it. It should be arriving via the postal service any day now. WOO HOO!!!!!!
Also, now that I have a little bit of money I'm going to get my 4 rolls of film (that have been waiting patiently on me) developed. Then I can post some photos of the damage the 2 hurricanes caused us. There were actually 4 hurricanes that hit Florida this season but only 2 had a major impact on "my" area. For those of you who don't live anywhere near the East coast heres a little tidbit of hurricane trivia. The last time 3 hurricanes hit Florida in one season was the 1930's. So I don't even know when the last time four of them hit in one season. And, the worst part is they are expecting it to get worse each season and stay that way for a cycle of about 20 years! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! For those of you who have never been in or seen a hurricane, let me paint a picture for you.
Fences were destroyed and allowed peoples animals such as cows and horses to take off and/or be stolen. There was an enormous amount of people buying dog tags for their horses to put on their bridles.
The wind caused tiles on the roofs to rip off leaving people with holes in their roof. A lot of people weren't so lucky and they lost their ENTIRE roof. And if you lose your roof you lose everything under it too :( So, some people had no where to go. They lost everything they owned. My mom works for the county and they had to hand out meals on wheels and ice and other kinds of stuff. The cars were lined up miles waiting for the supplies.
The wind uprooted trees of ALL sizes and in A LOT of cases those trees fell directly onto the power and telephones lines. This along with other factors caused power outages EVERYWHERE . According to FPL (Florida Power & Light) 1.7 million people were left without power after Hurricane Jeanne. I was one of them. After "Frances" we didn't have power for 8-9 days. After Jeanne though we got it back after 2 days. Florida in the summer after a hurricane is not pleasant. It's hotter than the sun, and then it's doubled by the humidity. The local jail had actual water droplets forming and running down the walls from the humidity in the prisoners cells!
Thank God my dad got a generator from his boss for us. We were able to save our food that way but the majority of the public, including grocery stores, took a total loss of everything that needed refrigeration. My neighbor Larry alone lost about $400 worth of meat from his freezer.
For a week we had to shower soaping ourselves up and pouring filthy pool water on us to rinse off. And then ten minutes we were hot, sticky, and sweaty again.
The water level rose and practically made us a moat around the house. You never realize what you have until you don't have it anymore. We were really blessed by God. We didn't have any damage to our house or yard besides debris and two uprooted trees, one of which fell on our power line. I think it was the telephone line though, thank God. The best part for us was the pop-up camper my parents had just recently bought. My dad plugged it into the generator and we had a small little area with a t.v. and air conditioning. That was wonderful at night! Everybody came to hang at our house. It was The wind caused tiles on the roofs to rip off leaving people with holes in their roof. A lot of people weren't so lucky and they lost their ENTIRE roof. And if you lose your roof you lose everything under it too :( So, some people had no where to go. They lost everything they owned.
Me, Mom, Dad, Grandmother, Alisha, Dave (Alisha's boyfriend)and his dog, Samantha, Larry (the neighbor), Aaron and his dog Mooch. Larry's misfortune ended helping us though. We cooked up every piece of meat he had in his freezer. It was quality stuff too.
http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/digitalS3000Overview.jsp?item=I628338&dbid=628338&urltype=overview
I'm so psyched to get it. It should be arriving via the postal service any day now. WOO HOO!!!!!!
Also, now that I have a little bit of money I'm going to get my 4 rolls of film (that have been waiting patiently on me) developed. Then I can post some photos of the damage the 2 hurricanes caused us. There were actually 4 hurricanes that hit Florida this season but only 2 had a major impact on "my" area. For those of you who don't live anywhere near the East coast heres a little tidbit of hurricane trivia. The last time 3 hurricanes hit Florida in one season was the 1930's. So I don't even know when the last time four of them hit in one season. And, the worst part is they are expecting it to get worse each season and stay that way for a cycle of about 20 years! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! For those of you who have never been in or seen a hurricane, let me paint a picture for you.
Fences were destroyed and allowed peoples animals such as cows and horses to take off and/or be stolen. There was an enormous amount of people buying dog tags for their horses to put on their bridles.
The wind caused tiles on the roofs to rip off leaving people with holes in their roof. A lot of people weren't so lucky and they lost their ENTIRE roof. And if you lose your roof you lose everything under it too :( So, some people had no where to go. They lost everything they owned. My mom works for the county and they had to hand out meals on wheels and ice and other kinds of stuff. The cars were lined up miles waiting for the supplies.
The wind uprooted trees of ALL sizes and in A LOT of cases those trees fell directly onto the power and telephones lines. This along with other factors caused power outages EVERYWHERE . According to FPL (Florida Power & Light) 1.7 million people were left without power after Hurricane Jeanne. I was one of them. After "Frances" we didn't have power for 8-9 days. After Jeanne though we got it back after 2 days. Florida in the summer after a hurricane is not pleasant. It's hotter than the sun, and then it's doubled by the humidity. The local jail had actual water droplets forming and running down the walls from the humidity in the prisoners cells!
Thank God my dad got a generator from his boss for us. We were able to save our food that way but the majority of the public, including grocery stores, took a total loss of everything that needed refrigeration. My neighbor Larry alone lost about $400 worth of meat from his freezer.
For a week we had to shower soaping ourselves up and pouring filthy pool water on us to rinse off. And then ten minutes we were hot, sticky, and sweaty again.
The water level rose and practically made us a moat around the house. You never realize what you have until you don't have it anymore. We were really blessed by God. We didn't have any damage to our house or yard besides debris and two uprooted trees, one of which fell on our power line. I think it was the telephone line though, thank God. The best part for us was the pop-up camper my parents had just recently bought. My dad plugged it into the generator and we had a small little area with a t.v. and air conditioning. That was wonderful at night! Everybody came to hang at our house. It was The wind caused tiles on the roofs to rip off leaving people with holes in their roof. A lot of people weren't so lucky and they lost their ENTIRE roof. And if you lose your roof you lose everything under it too :( So, some people had no where to go. They lost everything they owned.
Me, Mom, Dad, Grandmother, Alisha, Dave (Alisha's boyfriend)and his dog, Samantha, Larry (the neighbor), Aaron and his dog Mooch. Larry's misfortune ended helping us though. We cooked up every piece of meat he had in his freezer. It was quality stuff too.