The girls are both in school, I’m at work and Charley is bearing down
on us. I spent some time this morning making some space in the
garage and started to bring in all the plants and patio stuff. It’s
much easier to bring everything in while it’s sunny and dry.
We are in a non-evacuation area so we will be riding it out at
home. Looks like it will be a Catagory 2 at the least and
possible a Catagory 3 storm with winds of 110 mph. I will go out
at lunch and see if I can pick up a few things at the grocery
store. I’ve already got batteries and we have plenty of 5 gallon
water bottles.
My previous Hurricane experience was Elana back in 1985. We
evacuated up to Cindy’s parents house with our cats, stopping on the
way to pick up Uncle Larry’s cat too. Elana sat in the gulf and
spun for days. I remember the radio guy reporting at one point
that because of flooding Pinellas county had become an island.