Unwanted visitor
My Aunt Irma is coming to visit.
She’s planning on swooping in Sunday and staying until Monday, then she’s headed for Atlanta.
No one wants her. She rains devastation everywhere she travels. She’s a sly one, making you think she’s going to go east when, instead, she veers west.
While she’s here, I doubt I’ll have the chance to blog. She has a habit of cutting off the electricity just for fun, and she’s been known to fry electronics just to show that she can.
My family is so worried. I love them for it more than I can express. They called to offer their respective homes as a place to ride out the storm. That might not seem like much to most people, but I have 6 dogs, 3 cats and I am, most certainly, not leaving my 4-footed family.
Leaving a fur baby to survive on her own when the winds are howling is like locking your 2-year-old in his bedroom and coming back a week later. My family is well aware of my opinion and offered their homes to all my family members.
I’m trying to imagine driving from here to Atlanta or Oklahoma City or Palm Springs with 3 howling cats and 6 dogs that just want to stick their head out the window to enjoy their good fortune. Nope.
I check 4 weather sites. The forecast jumps anywhere from 40mph winds on Saturday and Sunday to 100mph winds on Monday and Tuesday landfall. Yesterday, one site said we were going to get 100mph winds and changed it to 60 an hour later. The next hour it was changed to 80. It’s like watching someone playing baseball with a grenade. You know it’s going to go off somewhere between you and the batter, and you hope that it will explode in an area where there are going to be the fewest casualties.
Worst case for North Florida? 100mph winds for half a day. Best case? 40mph winds for half a day. It’s the difference between having your house blown down with you in it…or insomnia.
Insomnia has never looked better.
Keep safe, all of you.
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Good luck. I’ll be praying for the best.
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Thanks. 🙂
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surrounding you with Angels!
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Thanks. 🙂 Mine are all exhausted from years of overwork.
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Good Luck and stay safe, Joelle & Furrys ❤️
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Thanks. We’re trying to prepare as well as we can. Many of the people who evacuated from the east coast went to the west coast of Florida. Now the west coast is the one that might be in Irma’s sites. They may be stuck trying to ride out a hurricane they were fleeing from.
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Oh No 😱
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Oh my word, it is so worry seeing all these blogs about Hurricane Irma. I feel as if everyone I know is in its dreadful path. Please stay safe and keep all your fur babies safe too.
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My thoughts will be with you and all in Florida. I am just outside of Houston so know just a fraction of what you are going through
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I lived in Houston for a year. It’s a huge city. You had terrible flooding when Harvey. I feel for the people on the west coast who thought they were going to be away from the storm and are now having to evacuate.
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Stay safe, thinking of you,
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Thanks. 🙂
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Best of luck hunkering down with all your four footed babies. I wouldn’t leave them either. I’ll be thinking of you and trying to send some sort of telepathic positive energy your way. 🤗
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Thanks. This hurricane has been so unpredictable. It’s hard to know what she’s going to do or where she’s going to go.
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p.s. I can’t remember if I mentioned that I have ( I think) a new blogging home. Imageaside.com. Amanda
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An additional blog? I can hardly keep up with one. You’re a stronger woman than I. 🙂
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No just crazier. Actually it’s due to a data base problem that I can’t afford to get fixed that has been going on for awhile. I kind of have to “start over” with a new blog just for enjoyable blogging etc, but have been procrastinating. 🙂
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I’m following so I should get notifications when you post. My electricity went out but I still had land line and internet for 9 hours or so after that (used a small generator that could power laptops). Then the internet and landline went out. Just got it back again after Hurricane Irma. That’s why it took so long to respond.
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I thought something like that must have happened. Could have been worse. Glad you’re back with us.
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This one’s self hosted. I’m too fed up with wp.com again. lol
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You’re fortunate to have the computer savvy to self-host.
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It’s no biggie once you’re set up, just the same as on wp.com. If you ever want to self host I can set you up, no problem. 🤗
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I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks. 🙂
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I almost came back and said why not combine your blog with your Atto Run self-hosted site but I double checked first and it looks like you got rid of it. How come? Just wondering.
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Who moved your free chapter over to your blog and where did all the other stuff go?
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Sending all my positive energy your way. (Humorously, Aunt Irma is the name given for getting ones period by the British TV series IT Crowd) keep the fur-kids close. Stay safe and we look forward to hearing from you when the storm passes. Cheers,H
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I didn’t know that Aunt Irma had another connotation, but a cycle by any other name…. 🙂
Fur babies are presently sleeping on my desk (Other Brother Coon Cat) and on one of many beds.
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Thoughts and prayers are with you. Be safe!
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It looks like it’s going to turn west more and go in the direction of Tallahassee. Hard to know with this hurricane. It’s been terribly unpredictable.
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hello floridaborne its dennis the vizsla dog hay i am sending lots of tail wags to yoo to be sayf frum nasty aunt irma!!! and the hipster kitties send purrs!!! ok bye
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Thanks. 🙂
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