Weathering The Storm

Unless you just crawled out from under a large rock, you know that the DC/MD area just got slammed with a crazy storm. That would be an understatement.

I'm sort of OBSESSED with the weather. I love watching the weather channel (TWC) and I'm secretly jealous of storm chasers, as in I want to be one. I'm the crazy person out on the back deck looking for the tornado while TWC is screaming at everyone to get inside and seek shelter. But, this was not the case the other night. Sarah and Jonathan got into town earlier that day and because the guys were planning to take the boat out super early Saturday morning we went to bed early. About an hour after going to bed, Dave and I shot straight up from sleep and I asked him what the noise was that woke us up. No sooner than I asked him, Sarah came to our room and told us that a major storm was hitting us with 90 mph winds. Holy. Shit. We got out of bed and came into the family room and sure enough, as we looked out the sliding glass doors the big trees behind us were bent in half and lightning cracked every second. Wow - this was serious. I started to panic so I got Grady out of his crib and we all just hovered in the kitchen. Grady woke up half way through the storm and was happy as a clam to see everyone standing around. Our neighbors' tree snapped in half. You could feel the house move with the wind and I thought for sure the roof was lifting off the house several times. The power flickered on and off several times, adding to the panic. It took about 30 long minutes for the storm to pass and we finally went back to bed. Well, admittedly I laid in bed but I couldn't calm myself down enough to fall back to sleep. For the first time in my life I was scared of a storm. I suspect this has something to do with a little miracle that I met 5 months, 1 week and 1 day ago.

The next morning we forgot about everything, Dave and Jonathan went fishing and Sarah, Grady and I ventured out for groceries. As we drove to Giant, we noticed all of the street lights were out on the major roads. We then passed Wawa gas station and couldn't believe how long the line of cars getting gas was. Still, we pulled up to Giant, fussed with getting Grady into the shopping cart with the new cover, and walked into Giant. SICK. It was dark and steamy in the store and smelled so gross. That's when we both realized there was no power, anywhere, not even at the grocery store. Duh, that's why everyone was at Wawa getting gas, for their generator. I guess since we didn't lose power we didn't feel the urgency in the morning like everyone else. But, we wanted to be a part of it. So we pulled up and waited for gas, for a while, and I had 3/4 in the tank to begin with. Whatever, you would have done the same thing!

The rest of the weekend was great with awesome company! Jonathan and Dave caught dinner Saturday morning and Sarah enjoyed every minute with her favorite Schoen man, and she had a great time playing with Grady too ;)

XOXO,

Court