We got caught up in the remnants of Ida at the end of last week. At first it was just good clean fun...a full day of heavy rain that is just cozy and beautiful to listen to. But early the next morning that sound of the wind woke me up and it was the first time I thought that perhaps this was not a normal storm. I got up to check the internet to see if I could figure out what was happening and checked on our back TV room which was flooded. I pulled up the carpet and mat and just let the water take the floor (which is cement, so no harm there).
Then the power went out.
That was a lot less fun. In Virginia, everything is run by electricity including our heat and stove. I figured there was no way someone was going to come out and fix it until the storm was done and started to stress a bit about what we were going to eat once the food in the refrigerator went bad and the temperature dropped in the house. But we got lucky, by the time the house got super cold (which to us was just 50 degrees, no laughing you Utahns or Minnesotians...cold can be relative. When I was in Tonga the students wore windbreakers and jackets all the time) the power came back on and then the storm went back to being good clean fun again.
These pictures were taken after the rain let up a bit. It has actually been unseasonably warm since the storm.
2 comments:
you are so good to get outside and take pictures!
You're the woman, Buf. You constantly amaze me with the things you do and the way you downplay their difficulty.
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