Huricane Seaside...
have been better.
We are in day 4 or 5 of no power, finally got the phones back yesterday after 3 days of no contact with the outside world. It is a very strange feeling to not be able to connect with anyone outside your home town, or for that matter, half the people in your home town.
No one has been able to work, every huge tree in the county is down and they have no real estimate of when we will get power back. The only things in Seaside that work right now are two gas stations a Safeway and a Rite Aid. The last few days the only two roads in and out of town were closed so people went into "gas panic" and the lines were miles long - people were running out of gas waiting for gas. Gas stations were charging $5 a gallon and then limiting how much you could buy. People are still stealing generators and there have been a few businesses looted/robbed.
Sunday afternoon was spent holding a rope with one end tied to the banister of our porch and one end tied to my father while he was up on the roof tarring shingles back on in 125 mile an hour wind gusts while my boyfriend and my sister held the ladder at the other end of the house that was screwed to the floor of the back deck. My mother was running from front to back screaming into the wind. not my father's best idea ever. he's fine.
Thankfully we have a generator. We are lucky - a lot of people in town are not. I only have power for a few hours a day and the internet for even less. BUT, we're alive and together and we're okay. We're not even close to "up and running" as they seem to be saying on the radio, but we're okay.
I love you guys.
~h
We are in day 4 or 5 of no power, finally got the phones back yesterday after 3 days of no contact with the outside world. It is a very strange feeling to not be able to connect with anyone outside your home town, or for that matter, half the people in your home town.
No one has been able to work, every huge tree in the county is down and they have no real estimate of when we will get power back. The only things in Seaside that work right now are two gas stations a Safeway and a Rite Aid. The last few days the only two roads in and out of town were closed so people went into "gas panic" and the lines were miles long - people were running out of gas waiting for gas. Gas stations were charging $5 a gallon and then limiting how much you could buy. People are still stealing generators and there have been a few businesses looted/robbed.
Sunday afternoon was spent holding a rope with one end tied to the banister of our porch and one end tied to my father while he was up on the roof tarring shingles back on in 125 mile an hour wind gusts while my boyfriend and my sister held the ladder at the other end of the house that was screwed to the floor of the back deck. My mother was running from front to back screaming into the wind. not my father's best idea ever. he's fine.
Thankfully we have a generator. We are lucky - a lot of people in town are not. I only have power for a few hours a day and the internet for even less. BUT, we're alive and together and we're okay. We're not even close to "up and running" as they seem to be saying on the radio, but we're okay.
I love you guys.
~h