I am popping on to say I'm alive, my family is safe, my animals are all safe, and our house is in tact.
I just got power not to long ago. It came on while I was out checking on neighbors and the home bound/elderly with no nearby family in the neighborhood.
The worst of the tornadoes passed us by a few miles, and the damage in our little town is minimal.
I just caught glimpses of the devastation on tv a few minutes ago and I'm shocked. I haven't left my town much, and have not had access to any video until now. I have not seen any tornado footage yet either and I don't know if I want to.
I know people who have lost their homes and have lost family. All I lost were portions of my fence. We are extremely fortunate. We have been doing well without power since we have a huge supply of candles. lanterns, and food that doesn't require cooking any how.
Today is the first day we cooked anything. I made a big breakfast of hot dogs and roasted sweet corn, and for lunch we had salad from the garden and sweet potatoes i had buried into the coals to bake. We were sick of sandwiches and canned food
It is strange. It wans't a big deal for me to heat water over coals to wash dishes and wash clothes by hand, but other people were having a hard time with this.
Thursday we spent the day cleaning up after the storm. we couldn't make calls because the tornadoes took out most of the cell towers out here.
Friday we ran into the nearest town that had supplies to get supplies for family including an elderly home bound cousin. she was on oxygen and in desperate need of supplies, batteries, and gas for the generator t keep her equipment running. That was a mad house
I get nervous in large crowds, i have serious social anxiety that pops up from time to time, and by the end of the trip I was a wreck. I was standing in the line and I must have looked upset because this precious little girl looked up and said "whats wrong" she turns to her mother and said "mom she looks like she is about to cry" and I reassured the girl i was fine, and smiled and calmed her down. after chatting with the woman and the girl i learned they lost everything in the tornado, their home, their possessions, their money, and they were there trying to get groceries on credit. I offered to help but was turned down, the store was working with her.
The stores had, and may still have, security guards to prevent rioting and looting but there has been no rioting and very little looting.
a majority of north Alabama is still under curfew, if anyone who does not have a legitimate excuse to be out after dusk, is caught by the police, they are arrested and could get 180 days in jail. This is to protect store sand homes from looters and to protect the crews that are out in pitch black working on lines and downed debri, as well as to prevent drivers from hitting any debri they don't see.
The reports say that we have the same and in some places, less crime , since the disaster. Everyone is pitching in.
We had not intended on going anywhere after friday supply trip, but then saterday, while I was moving my free ranged birds from one pasture to another, some roosters got loose and I sent my australian shepherd into the woods to get them. he came back out and his lower lip and the soft tissue on his jaw had been sliced/ripped off.
I am not sure how he did it. but he still herded teh chickens out, bleeding, the tu issue dangling from his face, and he would have kept working if I had aske dhim too. he never cried or made a sound. he was intent on finishing the job.
i immediately grabbed him up called my mother and had her sit in back and apply pressure to the profusely bleeding wound while we tried to find an emergency vet that was open, saterday morning, two days after the tornadoes hit.
We spent the entire day at the vet, then had to go to wall mart while he wa sin surgery to repair his ja, trying to fill a prescription for him.
then we ha dto try and find an open pet stoe to get a big head cone for him.
we ran into this woman at pet-co, and her children taking pet food donations for red cross. we wanted to donate but we knew we couldn't afford it because we knew the bill for wooly bear (my australian shepherd would be huge. so we spoke to the woman and it turns out it was her children's idea. they wanted to help some how, so they got together with petco and set up a way to get aid to the red cross for the pets lost and injured in the storm. The kids range form 8-13. I spoke with them and they were bright, polite, conciencious kids. I was very impressed.
today was relegated to basic tasks of checking on neighbors, tending the animals, and chores. our power is unstable so I'm going to wrap this up. This is the second time I've tried to write this post and will be ticked if power shuts off in the middle of it again.
I just got power not to long ago. It came on while I was out checking on neighbors and the home bound/elderly with no nearby family in the neighborhood.
The worst of the tornadoes passed us by a few miles, and the damage in our little town is minimal.
I just caught glimpses of the devastation on tv a few minutes ago and I'm shocked. I haven't left my town much, and have not had access to any video until now. I have not seen any tornado footage yet either and I don't know if I want to.
I know people who have lost their homes and have lost family. All I lost were portions of my fence. We are extremely fortunate. We have been doing well without power since we have a huge supply of candles. lanterns, and food that doesn't require cooking any how.
Today is the first day we cooked anything. I made a big breakfast of hot dogs and roasted sweet corn, and for lunch we had salad from the garden and sweet potatoes i had buried into the coals to bake. We were sick of sandwiches and canned food
It is strange. It wans't a big deal for me to heat water over coals to wash dishes and wash clothes by hand, but other people were having a hard time with this.
Thursday we spent the day cleaning up after the storm. we couldn't make calls because the tornadoes took out most of the cell towers out here.
Friday we ran into the nearest town that had supplies to get supplies for family including an elderly home bound cousin. she was on oxygen and in desperate need of supplies, batteries, and gas for the generator t keep her equipment running. That was a mad house
I get nervous in large crowds, i have serious social anxiety that pops up from time to time, and by the end of the trip I was a wreck. I was standing in the line and I must have looked upset because this precious little girl looked up and said "whats wrong" she turns to her mother and said "mom she looks like she is about to cry" and I reassured the girl i was fine, and smiled and calmed her down. after chatting with the woman and the girl i learned they lost everything in the tornado, their home, their possessions, their money, and they were there trying to get groceries on credit. I offered to help but was turned down, the store was working with her.
The stores had, and may still have, security guards to prevent rioting and looting but there has been no rioting and very little looting.
a majority of north Alabama is still under curfew, if anyone who does not have a legitimate excuse to be out after dusk, is caught by the police, they are arrested and could get 180 days in jail. This is to protect store sand homes from looters and to protect the crews that are out in pitch black working on lines and downed debri, as well as to prevent drivers from hitting any debri they don't see.
The reports say that we have the same and in some places, less crime , since the disaster. Everyone is pitching in.
We had not intended on going anywhere after friday supply trip, but then saterday, while I was moving my free ranged birds from one pasture to another, some roosters got loose and I sent my australian shepherd into the woods to get them. he came back out and his lower lip and the soft tissue on his jaw had been sliced/ripped off.
I am not sure how he did it. but he still herded teh chickens out, bleeding, the tu issue dangling from his face, and he would have kept working if I had aske dhim too. he never cried or made a sound. he was intent on finishing the job.
i immediately grabbed him up called my mother and had her sit in back and apply pressure to the profusely bleeding wound while we tried to find an emergency vet that was open, saterday morning, two days after the tornadoes hit.
We spent the entire day at the vet, then had to go to wall mart while he wa sin surgery to repair his ja, trying to fill a prescription for him.
then we ha dto try and find an open pet stoe to get a big head cone for him.
we ran into this woman at pet-co, and her children taking pet food donations for red cross. we wanted to donate but we knew we couldn't afford it because we knew the bill for wooly bear (my australian shepherd would be huge. so we spoke to the woman and it turns out it was her children's idea. they wanted to help some how, so they got together with petco and set up a way to get aid to the red cross for the pets lost and injured in the storm. The kids range form 8-13. I spoke with them and they were bright, polite, conciencious kids. I was very impressed.
today was relegated to basic tasks of checking on neighbors, tending the animals, and chores. our power is unstable so I'm going to wrap this up. This is the second time I've tried to write this post and will be ticked if power shuts off in the middle of it again.
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