We're thanking the power Gods!!!!

I think we are up and running again...Have power and everything.....

Jeanne proved to be an interesting storm indeed...The winds were a heck of a lot stronger than Frances...but the strange thing was...all the debris that was piled up from Frances did not get knocked around like everyone thought it would...Our power flickered on and off all night Saturday until finally going kaput around 11:30pm...That was hell...Back to hot and muggy...We ended up having a line down right down the road where we lived...yeah...Power came back on Monday morning at 7am and stayed until 11am...they shut it back of until they could properly fix the line...it ended up being a line feed problem and they had to check all the connecting lines and fix the problem...I was so glad it wasn't a transformer that blew as according to Florida Power and Light...these are on back order as they are desperatly trying to get them from other states...I actually saw a power truck out from Michigan working to help fix lines...That was really cool...

But all in all we made it out okay...and a heck of a lot luckier than some of the other people out there...When the kids complained about it being to hot and whine about not having power...I just reminded them that a lot of people lost not only their homes...but lost their jobs as well when everything was destroyed in Jeanne's Path...some of the pictures I have seen literally brought tears to my eyes when you hear that they lost everything!!!! I really cannot fathom that...I just can't...homeless and jobless...Needless to say the kids stopped complaining after that....you could see the wheels spinning in their heads as they tried to comprehend what I had just said...

At any rate....life is normal for the most part...kids are still out of school as the schools still do not have power and traffic lights are not working in most areas...Poor guys...10 days they have to make up so far....

A gal at work has assured us that she read on the weather information websites that all these hurricanes have come off the coast of Africa since the waters have been warmed...Well they have now cooled sufficiently to not allow any more from forming...Other wise she was prepared to go and try to get a glacier to the coast of Africa and see if that helped!!!! It's amazing how all of us became little meteorologists about these things....hahaha...Oh well I really do hope that it's over for this year....4 hurricanes in just a over a month...Everyone is exhausted I think and ready for things to just be normal again.....

Well gotta run.....Take care all!