Friday we prepared for our first tropical storm "Hanna". Mark had heard some horror stories at work about people being out of power before for 11 days, 24 days, etc. We gathered all our candles and matches, found the solar/handcrank radio and flashlight, and located our emergency food warming kit and spare back-up gels.
We went to Costco to buy water, more canned goods, and several loaves of bread and extra peanut butter and jelly. We arrived home just in the nick of time as the sky darkened and rain began to sprinkle.
The kids planned a "Hanna" pajama party for Friday night followed by an inside party for Saturday- watching movies, playing the Wii and board games.
So we sat around the house waiting for torrential down pours to begin. Waiting, waiting. Never came. No heavy rain, loud thunder, lightening, winds blowing over trees. What a dud.
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Down there the tropical storms can be a nonevent. We were boarding our plane in Orlando and the stopped and had us wait out a thunder cell. It was perfectly blue skies... I went to go the bathroom and get us lunch, it was raining so hard you couldn't tell there were planes just on the other side of the glass.
Good luck aclimating.
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