Hooray for power

I just wanted to post and say that I hope those in South Florida affected by Hurricane Katrina (which hit Miami Beach Thursday afternoon) are safe. After having my power knocked out around 8 pm last night during the worst of the storm, I am quite happy to have it back and have that be the only thing I suffered through (though god it was boring as hell lol). Good luck to everyone else dealing with this - the storm came out of nowhere and is the nastiest I have seen in quite awhile, even though it was only a category 1 storm.

It bites that this has to be my first post. *laughs*

Thank you for the well wishes. Once again, Pensacola is sitting in the projected path, and my city's nickname "Hurricane Alley" may prove itself true once again.

It's still a bit too early to assume Pensacola will be directly affected, but still, I look at the oncoming storm with a big sigh.

Please. Not again.

Glad to hear you are doing ok down there Cris!! *HUGS*

It seems the worst is still yet to come from what I'm hearing. But I think it will be past you already? At any rate, I'm keeping all you Florida SLers in my thoughts! May you all make it through this storm safely!!

Glad all is well, Christiano.

I hope everyone in the area fared well and is now safe and sound.

wOw Cris I heard on the news that up to 15 inches of rain has fallen in 8 hours!

man - glad to hear you've weather yet another storm!

My power went out at 4:30 yesterday and came back on just a little while ago.

For those who don't live in south florida, let me try and explain how important the power is. To share our experience, here's what you do:

1. Turn up your thermostat to 90 degrees.
2. Turn off all the lights.
3. Hire a local circus, and have them stampede a dozen or so elephants around on your roof. All night.
4. Take a battery powered television set and a couple of flashlight into the bathroom and shut the door.
5. Run the shower at full blast 100% hot. Make sure you have a thick could of foggy wet hot steam. Keep it steamy. All night.
6. Wait. Wait and wait. All night, and part of the next day. Just sit there and cook.

There is no sweeter sound than the whoosh of the A/C kicking back on after an all-night freight train and steam bath. Lights, who cares. Cable TV? Internet? I can go a week without those. But 1/2 hour without AC? There is nothing worse.

Buster

I'm glad to hear you are okay Cristiano. I hope all the other South Florida SLers are okay as well. Has anyone heard from Rose Karuna? She lives in Ft. Lauderdale.


Good luck and stay safe for the Panhandle folks. Pen, is it heading for you, too?

I'd agree with this, but then again, I could also use the word "wuss" in response...after living in an old house with no AC for all my life in a crappy humid state until recently.....but ..then again.. I'm living in 99% AC now... so..

I'll just agree.

I think it all depends on what you're used to. After all, people did live here before there was A/C. I plead guilty to being an A/C wuss.

I moved here from Canada two years ago, there are some differences.

Canadian cop: "Please watch your speed, OK?" Florida cop: "Sign here."

Canadians: from everywhere except North America. Floridians: All from New York.

Canada: 60F degree water, jump in and frolic! Florida: 78 degree water, no way. Wait for summer time.

Canadian storm: 3 feet of snow, report to work anyway. Florida storm: 120 mph wind, hide in the dark.

Ah, to really know a place.

Buster

We just got power back a few hours ago. Lost a couple trees, the largest of which lived through Andrew. It now resides on top of our neighbor's house (ouch). Otherwise, we had a bit of debris and yardwork to do.

And ehh... we were due. We haven't seen a major storm hit us in South Florida since Andrew paid us a visit (despite the constant scares). We were actually surprised at the amount of damage, even if the eye wall passed right over here.

As far as I see it, it's not worth worrying over at this point. We just get to rebuild (again) and go on with our lives.