Calm before the storm
Jul. 9th, 2005 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizzybennetThe sky was brilliantly blue today. It is amazing how beautiful and calm the weather was today. I kept thinking about what life would have been like if I'd lived 200 years ago. We'd have no idea this hurricane was coming. 
I took a couple pics of hurricane preparations.
The Wal-mart parking lot was packed. The rest of town was deserted. I guess all those who hadn't evacuated were at Wal-mart. When Wal-mart tried to close for the day (around 6 p.m.) people wouldn't leave. They kept going into the store. The police had to chase everyone away so that Wal-mart could close.
The boys were going crazy from being stuck inside all day so we went to a park. I took this pic while they were playing. Boat owners moor their boats away from the docks and in the middle of the bay or bayou. You can see some boats in this pic. Also, as we were driving to the park, I drove past a fire engine putting a fire out on a boat! The boat was practically destroyed. I wonder how it caught fire.
Practically everything is boarded up. I've lived in Florida and Alabama for almost 20 years and I've never seen this type of reaction. No one is taking any chances. I'm starting to wish we had evacuated to my parents house in Alabama. My MIL feels confident that we'll be fine here.
I took a couple pics of hurricane preparations.
The Wal-mart parking lot was packed. The rest of town was deserted. I guess all those who hadn't evacuated were at Wal-mart. When Wal-mart tried to close for the day (around 6 p.m.) people wouldn't leave. They kept going into the store. The police had to chase everyone away so that Wal-mart could close.
The boys were going crazy from being stuck inside all day so we went to a park. I took this pic while they were playing. Boat owners moor their boats away from the docks and in the middle of the bay or bayou. You can see some boats in this pic. Also, as we were driving to the park, I drove past a fire engine putting a fire out on a boat! The boat was practically destroyed. I wonder how it caught fire.
Practically everything is boarded up. I've lived in Florida and Alabama for almost 20 years and I've never seen this type of reaction. No one is taking any chances. I'm starting to wish we had evacuated to my parents house in Alabama. My MIL feels confident that we'll be fine here.