stormy weather

well, back to school would not be complete here in south florida without a storm, or the threat of one.  this year we got a doozy! tropical storm isaac was not too bad to us, but not too kind either.  thankfully we did not get any damage to our house or cars, but some of our yard and many roads in our area did not fair as well. several others in the area got it so much worse than we did also.  it apparently was a 1 in 100 year storm! this august has been the wettest on record since they started keeping records back in the late 1800's!  

during the storm on monday

our poor street is under that water somewhere.  and still is today!

mauricio off to the rescue!

do you see that??? water to his knees!!

not as deep in the street, but still not fit for walking.

mauricio said the jeep asked him "is that all you got??" thank goodness for the jeep or we would still be housebound and calling for some supplies!!

a view down to the main road that our street is off of.  insane! it still looks this way today too.

so here we are still surrounded by the same amount of water.  i wonder if our property value will go up now that we own lakefront property? or maybe not because it looks more like bayou front property.  any day now we are going to start gator huntin'.  

a view of the other side of our street that leads to a canal that is now level with the road.  it's been weird to see boats go past our house. you did read that right. in. the. road. maybe we'll get the gondola out and start serenading the neighborhood...

our poor little mailbox...

we just got out yesterday, after being cooped up for several days. it was nice to see civilization again!! of course, our first stop was the library because we're nerdy like that and then off for the real reason we left — toilet paper! 

the only annoyance that we've had to deal with, besides the fact that we are surrounded by water, is that both sarah and gracie's schools have reopened, but we couldn't get them there yesterday! they did go today, but sarah's school is 30 min away and she is usually bused.  unfortunately, they are not running buses out here, for obvious reasons i suppose, so we are having to drive out there. (remember, we have a jeep.  getting out of the flooded driveway and street = great! gas mileage = horrible!) thankfully one of her best friends also attends the same school and offered to take her today and she usually gets dropped off closer to the house on tues and thursdays because of ballet. tomorrow, we will figure something out.  we are a day by day kinda family right now!!

looks like a miss. phew!

we are happy to report that it looks like ike is passing us by! thank goodness. now, don't get me wrong, we won't breath easily until he is way past us but we are not in "the cone" anymore and are glad for that. we might see some wind and rain but that is fine by me. sorry for where it has been/is/and going but glad it is NOT coming here. (at least as far as we know.) becky get ready, it looks like it is coming toward the great state of texas.

Hovering Hanna, Icky Ike & Just Josephine

Well this is the topic of our daily conversations here in south florida. the "triplets" are moving nicely out in the good old atlantic and everyone is watching to see what will happen. so far we are in no immanent danger of hanna, but the ike man has got alot of people worried. i think still too far out to judge, but we shall see. they say lovely josephine will pose no threat to south florida but alas, only time will tell with her as well. i wanted to post these maps because it looks cool to see three storms all lined up. i should have gotten one from yesterday and you could still see the gustav as well. but well, you can do your own research to see what it looked like if you really want to check it out.

hope everyone is ready just in case mr. ike decides to pay a visit! guess i better go get some extra ice!! november 30th can't come quick enough!!!! do check out the infrared map below and see what ike looks like. he looks like a meanie!

Bye Bye Fay

hey just to let you know we are all fine here. fay brought us nothing but a lot of rain and some wind. our pool is totally full and overflowing and we have a moat around the ENTIRE house and not just the driveway like we do for normal rainstorms . but other than that it was nothing for us. the girls were even outside in their raincoats playing in the wind. there were some tornadoes close by but not so close that we had to run for cover.

we will be back in school tomorrow!!! yea!!!!!!! and no becky i will keep the hurricanes any day over tornadoes!! at least we know when it's coming and we can prepare for days before it hits!! hated dealing with that in missouri and HATED the earthquakes in california. remember that one we missed in college heidi? no thanks.

so until the next one, heather the storm reporter signing out!

Go Away Fay!!!!

you know it's the beginning of school when the storms start a commin'. this is the reason why we will NOT be in school tomorrow!!! the girls are stoked, but what the heck!!! we just got started and now we are out already!!!!!!!!!!!!

i hate hurricane season!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!