It’s a hurricane!! Sometime during the night or early this morning, Tropical Storm Ida was upgraded to a Category 1 Hurricane! And last night was so calm . . .
We were up at 5:30 am making preparations for the storm. Gale worked outside while Maureen worked inside – both trying to secure everything we could think of. We sent email or called our families to let them know our status. Gale was quite excited about the approaching weather; Maureen, on the other hand, was quite nervous.
By mid afternoon, we were experiencing light rains and the winds were around 20 mph with higher gusts. To Maureen’s great relief, Ida was downgraded back to a tropical storm; however, the winds were still expected to be gale force.
In the evening we had our first hurricane party! We baked a frozen pizza and shared a slice of key lime pie. We tried to watch a movie on our laptop, but we couldn’t get either the new computer or the old computer to play the DVD. Errrrr!! We determined that the operating system on our new notebook, Windows 7 “Starter” edition, did not include the ability to play DVDs! Kind of a sneaky way to sell computers and operating systems. So we spent some time and coughed up the extra cash to download the full Windows 7. By then, Gale was too tired to stay awake for a movie so we went to bed in hopes that the storm wouldn’t be so bad we couldn’t sleep!
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Just had a revelation...Gale (sr.) must have gotten his name based on gale force winds??? It seems so perfect if it's true....
I miss you guys! Can you tell? I am actually trying to catch up on my life tonight, it is fun to read the blog and get caught up! Joe is in Iowa City and I had a hell of a night with the kids, so I am enjoying some "me" time!
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