DAY 1 (Monday, July 8th)
Hurricane Beryl has made landfall. The storm made landfall to the west of us which, as us gulf coasters know, means we are on the dirty side. Lots of rain and wind happening because of the way hurricanes spin.
After the swim meet last night, a bunch of folks went to the pool to sandbag at the entrance and get everything secured. Hubs just left to go check on things. Yes, he’s kind of crazy. We still have high winds whistling around the house.
It was windy all night, and we lost power just before 4 am. There are a bunch of branches in our back yard. The lounger chairs we had stacked under the breezeway actually were blown towards the gate! Powerful winds!
I was not planning to transition out of summer swim season immediately into a day of hunkering down, but here we are.
It’s early in the hurricane season, but hopefully things don’t get too bad this year.
…later that day…
We have no power, no internet, no 5G. Disconnected! We started up the generator and then had the router going, but when the internet died we became disconnected. We can still make phone calls and send SMS messages. At least we know the storm has passed. We were still getting some pretty strong bands throughout the morning.
Hubs is out and about doing some cleanup and checking on things. The bayou got over the berm at the pool so it’s a mess now. The new roof at the marina has damage. Did you know he’s the pool and marina rep for the HOA? Busy, busy! We had branches from one of our trees fall on the garage of a neighbor behind us so he is going to remove them and inspect the roof. He also has another neighbor that needs help with a tree. Too bad we left the chainsaw up at the property!
Tonight we will set up to get A/C in the back room. Right now my dog is laying across my chest to get some of my fan action. Love her! I am sipping iced coffee from our generator powered fridge. That’s a luxury! It’s like when we go for a trip in the camper for a week and I get home to my shower that runs the entire duration of my shower. It’s glorious.
…later that day…
We cleaned up the in-laws house and the house behind us this afternoon. Hubs went to help some others while I got the kids bathed, and now we have the back room set up to sleep in.
We have two generators we can gang together, and we are doing that now. It has allowed us to power the fridge, the deep freeze, the entertainment center, the portable A/C, and of course make a charging station.
For the portable A/C – as the storm was coming, hubs went out and bought one. He was a little worried about spending $369 on something we might not need, but it was been great for us and keeping that back room cool now that we have it set up. I think it’s a great investment in our hurricane preparedness. My neighbor was talking about getting a hotel room for a couple of nights if they had power, but this is perfect – home with the dogs.
We also have gas water heater and stove so we can shower and we made tacos for supper. Not too shabby! We had the main house entertainment center hooked up so we could power our router, but then the internet stopped working. Doh! So we connected the back room TV and stuff which allowed us to put a movie on for the kids before bed. That’s something we have done so many times in the trailer. Even when boon docking we let the kids watch a movie as they go to bed.
We all fit in the back room, but I didn’t want to sleep on that couch so I am in bed with a fan blowing on my face.
Ok, tried adding some basic html into text since that’s how I make lj posts, but that clearly didn’t work. I will fix at some point when I have power and internet and can get on my computer!! Kind of a bummer though since I frequently do it. Still working out the bugs on if this works for me as a way to blog.