I’ve been monitoring the Doppler, watching Hanna travel along the coast and, finally, towards us.   It seems a lot bigger then it did before, but I am sure that is my imagination.   I’m a little excited and a little nervous.   This is the first hurricane that we’ve ever experienced.   I imagine this is what people feel like when they experience their first earthquake.

Anyway, in case the power goes out, we will lose the house phone.   (side note: I know I said I was going to cancel it, but rather then pay cancellation fees, I thought I would wait until the 1st of Oct.   Rest assured, it will be canceled then.)   Our cell phones might not get reception through the thick cloud cover, but sometimes when you can’t get a voice signal, you can get a data signal.   If I have a data signal than i will send updates, if any, to my Twitter page.

Right now we are under flash flood warning, high wind warning, and tornado warning.   It doesn’t seem like the hurricane will come near us, even though it looks like it might from the satalite images, so we should just a get a few inches of rain and lots of wind.   Hopefully no tornadoes, as they can be hard to see at night!   The wind will more than likely kill our power, but, like I said before, I am more worried about the trees in our backyard.   Most likely they will survive, if not, then hopefully they will fall away from the house.

We’re all set up downstairs, our supplies are ready, and it will soon be time for bed.   I don’t know if I’ll be able to sleep.   If there is enough light outside, I plan on taking pictures of the storm.   The ones I take will go up on my Flickr page, too, so check that one out if you can.

I just checked out the Doppler again.   It crazy watching it roll in like a gigantic cloud.   The beginning will be here in about 15 minutes.

In other news, Chris told me today he wants to play World of Warcraft.   I’ve actually missed playing it, so resigned up and I am about to play it right now on the laptop.   That is, until I get tired or the power goes out.   It’s been a few months since I’ve played, this should be fun.

Last night we had a CRAZY storm.   HUGE.   I’ve noticed when we get storms, they come out of nowhere, pour down gallons of water, and then leave within minutes.   The only evidence of a storm is steam coming off the street.   Every now and then they’ll throw a little lightning, but usually, just rain.

Well, last night, we had a nice size storm that lasted many many hours and was also able to take out the electricity in the cul de sac that we live in.   We were in the middle of watching Fantastic Four, the good part too… ugh.   We had some candles and a flashlight that helped us get around the house with stubbing too many toes.

All in all, it was a lot of fun.   We enjoyed the light show; the lighting was striking like every 2 minutes.   I even saw one bolt that spread through the clouds like creepy fingers.   It was cool.   Luckily for the food in the fridge, the power came back sometime during the night while we were sleeping.   I just went food shopping the other day too.   Whew.   Crisis averted.   Anyway, for those of you that think I can’t survive without electricty I say to you, “Still alive b*&$@#s!!! Ha!”   Juan out.

I didn’t know that we got tornadoes here as well as hurricanes. Well, we were on Tornado watch from last night to 9 am this morning. I got up around 5ish to feed Izzy and around 530 the rain started coming down… HARD. Luckily, no tornadoes hit around our area, but there seems to have been one in Greensboro, which is a good distance from here.   The good thing about this storm is that we get some water to pull us out of this drought.   The bad thing is, one person is dead from the aforementioned tornado.   A big price to pay to be drought-free…

Izzy fell asleep on my chest after feeding her and after awhile, I fell asleep too, but then the lighting would hit and I would wake up freaking out, “tornado?”   After about two of those I decided it was time to put Izzy in her crib for bed.   I went to bed too, and knocked right out… lighting didn’t wake me up again!   Ha, just goes to show you how we, as humans, feel comforted by our own beds, even as adults!

Well, we’re supposed to have a stormy Mothers Day over here, hopefully a day without tornadoes…   we’ll see.