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Oct. 10th, 2022 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyBecause I like to document these things, I figure I'll give you (future me) the more detailed version of ~Hurricane Ian, SC version.~ Which is not to be confused at all with the absolute beast that terrorized Florida, obviously.
Was off Thursday night, likely because they still didn't seem to have any real idea when this thing would really kick up even if the landfall was set for somewhere between 1 and 2pm. Things were definitely gusty Thursday night but other than it being pretty sustained, it wasn't that different from a normal kind of rainy day/night.
I should've done this recap earlier than now, huh, because things are fuzzy. Ah well. Part of my storm prep is always to make sure that everyone's done their laundry with very little left in the dirty pile as you never fucking know. Ditto with making everyone shower because while cold showers aren't terrible in the summer in this place (it's hot as fuck w/o AC and no real windows to speak of) it's not anyone's first choice otherwise. Plus this storm was weird: it was 60 degrees for most of the storm and that's not accounting for windchill. I cannot stress HOW WEIRD it was to have a hurricane/tropical storm outside and have it be colder than it normally is for Christmas. I'm including the year we had storms all the way through December, btw. So weird.
I don't remember if I slept overnight but guessing at least some since I know we weren't trying to have dinner late in case our power went out as the winds were supposed to kick it up around 8pm or so. I will say Mom scored some pretty good deals at the Food Lion because they were prepping for not being open for a few days. :D
Blah, blah, blah: I checked outside every few hours to see how the storm was progressing, but I didn't go outside until after the sun came up, as I mentioned previously. I immediately regretted that decision because the first time I got full body slammed by wind and couldn't see for shit and the second brought a ton of rain, despite only sprinkling when I opened the door, which was actually kind of fine because I then used that as my reason for going up to shower.
After my shower and having had breakfast I decided I'd try and give HP2 a whirl and made it about 20 minutes in before the power flickered like crazy. Things calmed down a bit and then I made it maybe another 20 minutes before the power flickered again and I said fuck it, I'm not chancing the TV and cut it off. It didn't hurt that HP2 was taunting me with work flashbacks so there's that.
Watched some of the local news off and on for the rest of the morning/early afternoon. Read Makena's and Maritza's books finally (why don't they have more, AG?) and basically kept an eye on things outside while Mom and Widget slept through the whole damn thing. I guess I could've slept but you see, *gestures to the left* there are a bunch of trees RIGHT THERE and at some point the wind kicked up to such a degree that the little bushes and smaller baby trees were getting flattened. If our landlords had paid for screens to be put up in the backporch like we'd hoped, those would've been destroyed as the branches and y'know, entire plants, were flattened into our porch area. So that was fun.
When setting up my outdoor Halloween decorations yesterday I realized the people on the end got sandbags and had them set up outside their back door, which made me realize their porch isn't quite as high as ours. Weird.
Anyway, things started to quiet down a little as the news was saying it was making landfall and imagine my surprise to look up and see the little news-crawl saying that part of the Pawleys Island pier had broken off and floated away. Such a weird storm, man, since landfall was it basically being over for us. To be fair, it had turned hybrid by that point and also landed I think officially in Georgetown, so we missed a direct hit.
But we never lost power and it turns out that Cass did. She who didn't lose power for either of the last two storms that knocked ours out for days. But she only lost it for a few hours, and I'm wondering if maybe they beefed things up this way due to the previous storms and hadn't on her end. *muse* Anyway, it was a very blue-green-grey stormy day and if not for the fear that a tree was going to land on me, it would've been a perfectly me kind of day. Cold, dreary, windy.
Now I've gotta see if the yard people are done so I can begin my watch of The Midnight Club.
Was off Thursday night, likely because they still didn't seem to have any real idea when this thing would really kick up even if the landfall was set for somewhere between 1 and 2pm. Things were definitely gusty Thursday night but other than it being pretty sustained, it wasn't that different from a normal kind of rainy day/night.
I should've done this recap earlier than now, huh, because things are fuzzy. Ah well. Part of my storm prep is always to make sure that everyone's done their laundry with very little left in the dirty pile as you never fucking know. Ditto with making everyone shower because while cold showers aren't terrible in the summer in this place (it's hot as fuck w/o AC and no real windows to speak of) it's not anyone's first choice otherwise. Plus this storm was weird: it was 60 degrees for most of the storm and that's not accounting for windchill. I cannot stress HOW WEIRD it was to have a hurricane/tropical storm outside and have it be colder than it normally is for Christmas. I'm including the year we had storms all the way through December, btw. So weird.
I don't remember if I slept overnight but guessing at least some since I know we weren't trying to have dinner late in case our power went out as the winds were supposed to kick it up around 8pm or so. I will say Mom scored some pretty good deals at the Food Lion because they were prepping for not being open for a few days. :D
Blah, blah, blah: I checked outside every few hours to see how the storm was progressing, but I didn't go outside until after the sun came up, as I mentioned previously. I immediately regretted that decision because the first time I got full body slammed by wind and couldn't see for shit and the second brought a ton of rain, despite only sprinkling when I opened the door, which was actually kind of fine because I then used that as my reason for going up to shower.
After my shower and having had breakfast I decided I'd try and give HP2 a whirl and made it about 20 minutes in before the power flickered like crazy. Things calmed down a bit and then I made it maybe another 20 minutes before the power flickered again and I said fuck it, I'm not chancing the TV and cut it off. It didn't hurt that HP2 was taunting me with work flashbacks so there's that.
Watched some of the local news off and on for the rest of the morning/early afternoon. Read Makena's and Maritza's books finally (why don't they have more, AG?) and basically kept an eye on things outside while Mom and Widget slept through the whole damn thing. I guess I could've slept but you see, *gestures to the left* there are a bunch of trees RIGHT THERE and at some point the wind kicked up to such a degree that the little bushes and smaller baby trees were getting flattened. If our landlords had paid for screens to be put up in the backporch like we'd hoped, those would've been destroyed as the branches and y'know, entire plants, were flattened into our porch area. So that was fun.
When setting up my outdoor Halloween decorations yesterday I realized the people on the end got sandbags and had them set up outside their back door, which made me realize their porch isn't quite as high as ours. Weird.
Anyway, things started to quiet down a little as the news was saying it was making landfall and imagine my surprise to look up and see the little news-crawl saying that part of the Pawleys Island pier had broken off and floated away. Such a weird storm, man, since landfall was it basically being over for us. To be fair, it had turned hybrid by that point and also landed I think officially in Georgetown, so we missed a direct hit.
But we never lost power and it turns out that Cass did. She who didn't lose power for either of the last two storms that knocked ours out for days. But she only lost it for a few hours, and I'm wondering if maybe they beefed things up this way due to the previous storms and hadn't on her end. *muse* Anyway, it was a very blue-green-grey stormy day and if not for the fear that a tree was going to land on me, it would've been a perfectly me kind of day. Cold, dreary, windy.
Now I've gotta see if the yard people are done so I can begin my watch of The Midnight Club.