Surving Ivan September 17, 2004
Posted by Liz in : General , comments closedEveryone who has been watching the news has heard about the crazy hurricane season this year. We, like many, have been keeping a watchful eye on Florida and groaning everytime they say, “Here comes another one.” Well, last night Ivan tried to play it’s game on us; instead we played a game. We played Scrabble by candle light after dinner. We lost power around 5:00pm and it did not come back on until a little after 1:00am. I am now thankful for having a gas stove; it came in handy as we were able to eat dinner. (just had to call my mom and have her give us a ring on the cell in 15 minutes LOL)
While eating dinner with every candle in the house lit, we watched our back yard turn into a swift moving river with a few little waterfalls. It was quite pretty looking although it made taking Ashley out into an adventure. Which, by the way, she would forget what she was out there for and play in the water. Labs like water a little too much I think!
We were lucky, though. Not much water came into the garage and the only damage we recieved was our leaking front window and all the pinestraw washing away out of my garden, taking a few of my plants with it. We have some neighbors that weren’t so lucky and have trees that came down and hit their houses.
Oh for the score of the Scrabble game:
Ben: 217
Liz: 214