Journal of a Hurricane Year
Sep. 16th, 2004 07:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaWell, the tree fell over.
Or rather, half of the two thirds that was left did. On its own, too--gravity apparently did the trick, because I don't think the storm even got here until late/early in the night. The storm, by the way, is just sort of that sulky combination of rain and wind at this point--no thunder or lightning, no tornadoes, no ripping winds. There is a 60-foot pine outside my window that's sort of giving me an impertinent look, but I think that if it falls, it'll hit our neighbor's house (yay...?).
We've already lost power twice in the last half hour or so--just for half a minute or so, but it doesn't bode well. The NBC affiliate is saying that a quarter of a million people have already lost power in Alabama--1000 of them in Birmingham alone. So I went ahead and made a hot breakfast while I could and cranked the AC down to polar. Oddity: we also had a massive toilet overflow last night, which I totally don't understand because even after I unclogged it, no... clog came up. Seriously, it was just clean water. I started wondering if it was hurricane-related, but I can't imagine flooding having started yet...
Dammit. I wish we could keep the power, even if I couldn't have the internet, because there'd be nothing better than to curl up and watch a pile of movies, which I totally have. I have a bad habit of asking for dozens of movies for Christmas and birthday and then just not watching them. Vladimir was scandalized yesterday that I still hadn't watched the Errol Flynn Robin Hood that he got me for Christmas. "But I'm saving them for a rainy day!" And then I heard the biggest "HAR" ever coming across the Atlantic from the direction of Croatia: "WELL, IT'S A RAINY DAY NOW!"
Oh dear. Looks like the wind's picking up. My room is on the back of the house, with the windows facing out that way--into the hurricane, apparently. YAY.
Oh, by the way--if the power does go out for good, I did save the Blogspot Audioblogger number to my new phone (I ought to pull out the LJ number, too). If you don't hear from me after several hours, do check cleolinda.blogspot.com for me and see if I've phone-posted, because I think I'll still be able to do that. And pass it on to other non-hurricaned (HURRICANED!) folks if I have. I mean, you know, if you care and all. You very possibly don't. But then I'm not sure why you're reading my journal if you don't. Anyway. I'll try to say something worth passing on, although I can't promise anything ("So things aren't looking too good right OMGWTFTREEEEE!").
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Date: 2004-09-16 06:01 am (UTC)See you on the flip side.
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Date: 2004-09-16 06:02 am (UTC)Stay safe! Take some photos for us if you're not in mortal danger. ;)
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Date: 2004-09-16 06:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 06:07 am (UTC)Be careful m'dear......
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Date: 2004-09-16 06:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 06:09 am (UTC)Trees falling are always annoying, in my experience, but as long as they don't fall on the house, it's all right.
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Date: 2004-09-16 06:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 06:27 am (UTC)Which just proves I'm mad, mad, mad.
Stay safe, madamoiselle. We worry.
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Date: 2004-09-16 06:50 am (UTC)How's this?
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Date: 2004-09-16 06:53 am (UTC)I shall credit you and sing your praises to the heavens.
That? Is HYSTERICAL.
Date: 2004-09-16 07:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 09:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 09:26 am (UTC)Glad you like it! :)
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Date: 2004-09-16 12:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 06:36 am (UTC)Secondly, I feel HORRIBLE doing this right now, but I figured that this would be easier for you to anwere here than on the m15m community. I LOVE your Heroine Addict icon series. Please please PLEASE tell me I can snitch a few if I promise credit...
I'm Kit by the way, big fan and all that, but I don't stalk you or want to have your children. :) I just happened to read my first m15m here on your regular journal, so I friended you. :)
Kit
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Date: 2004-09-16 07:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 08:02 am (UTC)Kit
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Date: 2004-09-16 06:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 06:45 am (UTC)So on a serious note, take care of yourself, avoid the trees and stay safe.
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Date: 2004-09-16 07:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 12:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 07:03 am (UTC)I DVR'ed the Errol Flynn Robin Hood (I love TCM!!!) a couple weeks ago and haven't had a chance to watch it yet. But it's not raining here...
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Date: 2004-09-16 07:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 07:06 am (UTC)The incoming storm has probably dropped the pressure drastically enough that the water thinks 'down' is actually outside the toilet. I vaguely remember this as being common for tornadoes, so i'd assume the same thing goes for hurricanes.
It may also fluctuate between overflow and ubersuction, so dont worry if it starts making strange noises and tries to suck the house down the drain. Or rather, dont worry about the toilet; if its freaking out like that maybe you should be hiding somewhere. BTW, i dont remember where i heard this, so i may just be talking out of my ass here, but i think its right.
Stay safe hon.
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Date: 2004-09-16 01:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 07:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 07:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 07:32 am (UTC)But instead I lit candles, listened to my discman and played a 4 hour game of Monopoly with my little sister. I cooked my breakfast on the barbecue, too.
Stay safe!
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Date: 2004-09-16 07:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 08:32 am (UTC)Best.Movie.Ever. The soundtrack alone puts it at the top. Mmm, Korngold. Mmm, Errol. MmmMMMM.
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Date: 2004-09-16 08:43 am (UTC)The cheese! It's hilarious, I love it. Remember the Disney Robin Hood? Yeah, they pretty much stole everything from the EF one. Hey, guys who can fence are hot, what can I say?
"So things aren't looking too good right OMGWTFTREEEEE!"
Funniest thing liek evah, omg!
Also, you know, stay safe.
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Date: 2004-09-16 09:48 am (UTC)You could use this as an opportunity to ask for a portable DVD player from Vladimir. Then -- you could watch Robin Hood whenever =D
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Date: 2004-09-16 02:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-16 02:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 10:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 11:50 am (UTC)although if you have a battery-operated cd player, like i do, the music choice doesn't even count.
anyway, don't get smushed by trees. good luck.
what, no plague?
Date: 2004-09-16 11:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-17 12:31 am (UTC)*sends many prayers*