Pokes head out from under a rock....
Thankfully, not literally.
When you vanish from LJ/interweb for a while... THIS is not the way you want to make your come-back. Thankfully, all is okay in our neck of the woods. Parts of my town were hit by at least 1 possibly 2 of the tornadoes that tore through our area of Alabama but, thankfully, our part of town was virtually unscathed. We have some trees down and some wind damage here. People that we know have lost their homes and had much worse.
Our biggest 'inconvenience' was the lack of power. Thanks to some good support we even managed to save virtually everything that we had stored in our freezer and the power now seems to be back on for good. Considering we were initially told 10-14 days, then it dwindled down to 3-5 days, I think that going for a little more than 24 hours without water is absolutely SUPERB work on the part of all of the people working with Alabama Power.
As I explained to our church priest last night (who is the one currently in possession of our entire freezer inventory) when he asked if there was anything else that he could do for us, considering the fact that saving our perishable items was our only real concern... I think we were pretty damned lucky and that was all we could ask for.
Now I'm just hoping that the rest of the state can bounce back as quickly and the rest of the people can get all of the help that they possibly need.
Thank you to everyone who called/texted/emailed. My cell phone was a godsend during all of this and I don't know what I would have done without it and you.
And simply because it's corny and should be said, though it's never said enough - I love you all.
When you vanish from LJ/interweb for a while... THIS is not the way you want to make your come-back. Thankfully, all is okay in our neck of the woods. Parts of my town were hit by at least 1 possibly 2 of the tornadoes that tore through our area of Alabama but, thankfully, our part of town was virtually unscathed. We have some trees down and some wind damage here. People that we know have lost their homes and had much worse.
Our biggest 'inconvenience' was the lack of power. Thanks to some good support we even managed to save virtually everything that we had stored in our freezer and the power now seems to be back on for good. Considering we were initially told 10-14 days, then it dwindled down to 3-5 days, I think that going for a little more than 24 hours without water is absolutely SUPERB work on the part of all of the people working with Alabama Power.
As I explained to our church priest last night (who is the one currently in possession of our entire freezer inventory) when he asked if there was anything else that he could do for us, considering the fact that saving our perishable items was our only real concern... I think we were pretty damned lucky and that was all we could ask for.
Now I'm just hoping that the rest of the state can bounce back as quickly and the rest of the people can get all of the help that they possibly need.
Thank you to everyone who called/texted/emailed. My cell phone was a godsend during all of this and I don't know what I would have done without it and you.
And simply because it's corny and should be said, though it's never said enough - I love you all.