Kathianne said:
Z seems like way too much excitement! Hope you got the heck out of the way of Charley! LW was supposed to be hit pretty hard. You do ok?
Actually, me and my one cat stood by the porch window and watched the whole thing because there wasn't much on the TV by that point, not having electricity. My other cat was hiding. I honestly can't say I was too impressed, but my apartment was pretty sheltered from the majority of the storm's force due to its alignment. Just looked like some rain and a whole lot of wind.
However, the eye of the storm passed only about 8-10 miles SW of me, at the most, and I wasn't really aware of the damage till I went out driving around the next day to see if I could find some ice (no luck).
By the time it hit Winter Haven (that's me), the storm had actually been downgraded to a Category 3 Hurricane, so the winds were only going about 105 mph.....
There's debris everywhere, until just this morning there were still large trees blocking roads, (I'm sure there still are actually but I haven't seen any yet) there's a telephone pole right down the street the was broken right in half. Right in half. I can't imagine how strong the gust must have been that did that. This thing isn't knocked over, or even hardly pulled out of the ground. It's just snapped in half. I'm thinking that's the main problem with my apartment complex's power, and I saw a whole team of electrical workers there today, so who knows, maybe I have power at my apartment right now.
I'm not holding my breath.
But considering I don't have a TV or anything anyways, it's not that much of an inconvience. The AC is out and its 92 degrees today, the refgrigerator obvoiusly is off and I've had to throw alot of food away, and once the sun goes down I don't have any light to read so I end of just going to sleep. Consequently, I wouldn't have been late for work, but of course it hit on a weekend.
But I'm alive, my cats are alive, and it looks like they've finally moved my car from the tow truck place to the auto shop, so some progress is getting made on that. Either that or my car blew away. I wouldn't rule it out.
Just waiting on "number three", and trying to guess in what form it will come.
Maybe I'll get shot or stabbed, or maybe there will be a tsunami or an asteroid hit, or maybe I'll just spontaneously combust. Maybe someone will break in and eat my cats.
On the bright side I like my new job.....of course, that's it, the building I work at will explode or something so I won't even have that. Oh joy I can't wait.
We should have a poll.
dilloduck said:
all sorts of things could be #3 so accept a stubbed toe or something and be done with it
Ah, if only it were that simple. Unfortunately, the 3 things must be of roughly equal magnitude. For instance, in the span of maybe a month and a half to two months, my car dropped it's muffler on the highway (1), got a flat tire on a Saturday night (2), and had the glass mug throw through the drivers side window (3). All three things happened to my car, were a minor inconvience (relatively speaking), and cost some money.
These last two things, have all been primarily just major inconviences. That's the connection. Now it could be that the fact that the movers haven't yet gotten here, nearly a week and a half after I've moved in, is the third (or perhaps second) inconvience, but part of the reason the movers haven't yet arrived is directly because of the hurricane, so they are basically the same major inconvenience.
You know though, I did stub my toe awhile back, and it still bothers me now and again....nevermind, I stubbed it twice.....the third one is going to hurt.
There are fewer trees on the earth because of me. Bent the frame of a car in reverse! No other vehicle involved is the insurance parlance! 
