Hurricane Dennis

It's hard to believe a year has passed and we're in the same situation AGAIN. I'm feeling sorry for Pensacola as it looks like Dennis has his eye on them AGAIN. Ivan did them in pretty bad, but who would think another storm would come the next year aiming the same way.

I've had lots of friends online asking about the storms. If you're not from Florida, it's hard to imagine, but we're kind of taking a laid back wait and see on this one. Right now it's looking like the Panhandle, but who knows, these things really have a mind of their own.

Today was a beautiful warm (acutally HOT HOT HOT ) sunny day, until about 5 pm.

Hubby came home and decided it MIGHT be a good idea to go out and get some gas for his new generator. I'm still shaking my head on the need for this generator, guess it's a new Florida tool. We've lived in the state all our lives, and never owned a generator. We had one bad year with storms and now we need one..... LOL

Anyway so now we have a beautiful new $1600 Generator, that I for one hope we never need or use.

I really think he only wanted it because last year I bought 3 or 4 dozen cases of water, and thru it into the deep freeze so for the whole hurricane season, everytime hubby wanted something out of the Freezer he would cuss at me. Heck I was only being logical, I drink lots of diet coke with ice and I hate WARM water to drink so figured if I froze it all, we'd not run out.

It turned out for one storm I kept power but our neighbors didn't so I ended up sharing frozen water with them and they were thankful.

With the generator, hubby tells me he can run the freezer and refrigerator, so I don't need to freeze my water. I'm still wondering though it the electric goes OFF..... will the ICEMAKER pump the water into it to get ice?

IF anyone knows that one tell me.. I can't imagine not having my ice maker. Boy are we spoiled or what, Give me ICE and Air conditioning and my internet connection and the wind and rain can blow all it wants, I'll be happy.

ANYWAY about 5 pm, we went out to get something to eat and go get hubby's gas, and of course that's when the wind and rain decided to start up so we got DRENCHED coming back home. But we got his gas, so we're all ready and good to go.

So..To all you in the north, It's Friday midnight and we're fine in central Florida.

Looks like Dennis is down blowing around in Cuba and the Keys. As long as you see me online, you know I HAVE POWER ...and POWER IS EVERYTHING when you're in FLORIDA IN JULY.

GO AWAY DENNIS...

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