Arthur

[Boltlady]

Ready or not, here he comes! Being in the corner of SE VA we're only supposed to get a glancing blow (sort of a pun), but it's for sure going to rain.

Thank goodness that I broke down last fall and had my giant oak tree taken down. I loved the tree and it offered wonderful shade in the summer (it was right in front of my house), but with every big wind, we get touched by some hurricanes and also nor'easters. Branches from that tree would blow all over my yard. The worst part is that some would always hit my roof to where a hole developed and I had to get a new one. Now with my new roof intact and guaranteed to withstand winds to 110mph, I have nothing to worry about.

The house is solid brick and amazingly well built. Even if we have a power outage it won't last long for me. I'm on a grid with a nursing home so they always work on that as one of first ones. Even if the street floods it should be no problem. The house sits a few feet up on a crawl space. The worst would be a bit of water in the garage. I wouldn't like it, but I could deal with that.

The people in NC will be the ones having to deal with brunt of it. Fortunately it's not a big one as hurricanes go and they're a seasoned bunch.

It could just mess around and be a good day.

 

[Boltlady]

This storm which is just leaving our area now, is the kind that causes real problems in the future. Young people will want to say that they lived through a cat 2 hurricane so such a thing is no big deal. Since all we got was the aforementioned glancing blow because even though it came close, it was a small storm without the reach of the big ones.

When the next one comes, those same young people will not take the proper precautions. We've had regular summer rainstorms that were much worse, so the next time will just mean hurricane parties.

Hopefully they won't end up like all of the partiers that got wiped out with Camille years ago. We here were all lucky this time.