By all reports, a devastating hurricane is due to hit the family and friends of this silly little blog. Florida is in the crosshairs of the most powerful storm within memory of most. We can't stop it. We can only watch it as it destroys.
What we can do is pray. Pray for those who will undoubtedly lose their homes, their businesses, their lives.
Today is a day of prayer for those who are in danger. Please add your prayers to mine.
Prayers away, Vicki! I was stationed in Miami while in the Coast Guard. I know what this is all about! These people are in a catch-22. A lot of them are evacuating south. Trouble is, if that storm carves the path of destruction anticipated, they, along with everyone south of the storm, are going to be cut off from supply lines. If they evacuate north, they're driving into the path of destruction wrought by Helene. This is NOT a good thing...
ReplyDeleteI just don't know what else to do, Pete. I have never had the misfortune of living through a hurricane, but our tornado season and winter blizzards have put me on my knees in prayer more than once.
ReplyDeleteOn a sort of related note, I was filling saved soda 2-ltr bottles with water. That seems to work well for me in this small apartment. Anyway, one of the nurses couldn't figure out what I was doing. I asked how she stored water, and she looked at me like there was a third hand growing out of the top of my head. And after she questioned my sanity, sort of, I asked her how the pump that delivers water to the kitchen tap in her house works when the electricity is gone. Blank stare. I am convinced that many of the lives lost in storms will be those souls who just didn't think anything bad would ever happen to them.
Pray without ceasing!
She's probably one of those people who say "We don't need FARMS. Meat comes from the STORE." There's no helping those who believe that the ship is unsinkable... In high school biology class this was called "natural selection..."
DeletePrecisely, Pete. Sad thing is - they seem to have done a great job of reproducing!!
DeleteI shouldn’t laugh. I should NOT LAUGH, but, we live in the land o’ power zapping windstorms, AND we have a private well and septic. Years ago, about two months after we first moved here, to our farm, we had a windstorm which took out power for 3 nights and almost 4 entire days. Kids were wee little, I was pregnant and hyper emetic. We rarely, if ever drank soda. Since we hadn’t been there but two months, there weren’t a lot of used “vessels “ for stored tap water at the time, beyond a couple of apple juice and orange juice containers we had filled since we had moved in. I all but cried when, after a bout of morning sickness I forced a toilet flush with store bought bottled water.
DeleteI rent out that farmhouse now, and the back wall is a shelf of water in things like two liter bottles. A provision of the lease is keeping that fully stocked. My (awesome) tenant thought I had two heads until, you guessed it, a windstorm.
Also, all life is sacred, isn’t it? ISN’T IT????
DeleteIn the 1997 flood, there was a warning the City water plant was going down in a few hours. I started filling every larger jar and container (including metal coffee cans).
DeleteDon...I think these latest storms may have been a wake-up call for some. My grocery order for next week reflects that, as does my activity yesterday and today of filling and stashing more bottles of water. Also asked one of my kids to pick up more of the small propane bottles that fit my small camp stove and heater. Last thing I need is to be without heat in the middle of a Minnesota January!!
DeleteTo Anon...I'm not sure what your remark about all life being sacred refers to, but of course we believe all life is sacred. I just wish more had been born with common sense or perhaps the ability to sluff off the indoctrinatiopn so many are adopting.
DeleteVicki, also if you are using a propane camp stove and heater, get yourself a battery powered carbon monoxide detector. You don't want to wake up warm and dead.
DeleteGot one, Don...Warm and dead doesn't sound like any fun at all!! At my age I am thankful for each morning I wake up. No point in hurrying up the process. :)
DeleteThanks Vicki ... I'll give you guys an update if the cell towers keep working ! Starting to get breezy right now ! Have solar panel to charge phone and tablet when wind and rain stop ... 20' above sea level for this one ... have not always been ... flooded twice in the past , Blessings ,Patrick
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Thanks so much for checking in. I know I am not the only one worried about you. Prayers continue, my friend.
DeleteKeep the powder dry, Patrick! ...How did you find 20ft above sea level in Florida???
DeleteTake care Patrick. This thing is so big I’m afraid it’s going to stay strong all the way across the state. Prayers….Jan
DeleteHi Vicki. Prayers for Florida for certain. Been watching Ryan Hall off and on today. It’s throwing off some really big tornados. As if the hurricane isn’t going to do enough damage……Jan
ReplyDeleteOh, No! I missed the part about the tornados. As if a huge hurricane wasn't enough! Prayers continue, Jan.
DeleteMany are praying and decreeing, Vicki. 🙏
ReplyDeleteBe safe and God bless.
That's what we can do just now, LindaG...God bless you and yours.
DeleteHey everyone very windy lots of horizontal rain...eye of storm will pass just to the south no damage so far ...hey Pete 20' is common in Pinellas county daughters is , 30' of course a lot of Pinellas is sea level especially if you live on a boat ! Thanks for prayers ... Blessings , Patrick
ReplyDeleteSo very glad to hear you are OK. God bless! Stay safe if that is possible!
ReplyDeleteHello everyone ...survived ! Powers back ... Phones back ... Lots of damage down here though ...that was a full blown hurricane ... Thanks for your prayers , ...Blessings , Patrick
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for checking in!! And am relieved that you are OK. Stuff can be replaced. Friends can't. Prayer can work wonders.
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