First things first. My heart goes out to all of the people from the Outer Banks to New England that are facing the after-effects of Hurricane Irene right now, including major flooding that is ravaging many people’s homes and livelihoods. And the lost lives, of course, are the most devastating of all of Irene’s effects. […]
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Irene Updates From An Island Mom
I’m still trying to find out details about our oceanside house, but so far, it sounds like it’s holding up a little better than expected. I am hearing somewhat conflicting reports, and there may be some damage. However, the house is still standing, and more importantly, I have yet to hear of anyone being injured […]
Waiting For Irene
It’s odd. You get to a point, when you are waiting for a hurricane, where time starts to move slowly. There’s the build up that often lasts for days, where each day seems more like five in terms of what happens, while the reports on intensity and direction change from hour to hour. In the […]
A Carolina Hurricane Oceanside
We’re in a bit of an interesting situation at the moment, with Hurricane Irene bearing down on us at this point in time. As you may have noticed, we just moved from one house in Carolina that is right by the ocean to another house “down the road a bit†on another Carolina island that […]
Is Hurricane Irene Headed My Way?
It’s that time a year again, the time of year when the beach is more reminiscent of paradise than ever, when the high tide of tourists is beginning to recede, and the air and water is just so deliciously warm. This time of year, from about now through the better part of November, is to […]
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A Tale Of Two Pairs Of Shorts
It’s always fun to take the small people into a formal social situation fraught with potential surprises, where we don’t know a soul. What do I mean? Well, in yesterday’s case, we took the small people to a new church on our new island. In a charitable gesture that morning, LCB wordlessly took over supervising […]