I've pretty much kissed Halloween goodbye, unless a miracle happens and the storm moves out to sea, but it doesn't look like that's happening. It's headed straight for us. I'm more worried about the possibility of losing power now, though, than I am about Halloween.
I live two hours north of NYC, so I'm close enough to the coast to be affected by Hurricane force winds and tropical storm force winds if we get them. I don't have any trees that are close enough to my house to come down on it, thankfully, but my Mom has a big tree by her house and there's a few big trees by my brothers house.
My brother also has the kind of job where he works in all types of weather; nothing keeps him home, so I'll be worried about his safety. I just hope that everyone's preparing and stays home if they're able to during the worst of it.
The biggest worries for my area will be downed trees from high winds, power outages, flooding in some areas and maybe a tornado warning. We actually had a tornado warning last year during Irene. We're not used to those things here, so that was very scary for us here in my town.
Thankfully, though, we didn't get a tornado! I prayed non-stop that night that we had a warning, right until I finally fell asleep! I was lucky enough to not lose power last year during Irene, but other areas of my town were not so lucky and lost power for close to a week or more.
I pray that doesn't happen to me this time and that we get lucky again. I just have to make sure that we have everything we need in the house in the event that the power does in fact goes out and hope for the best.
If I lose power next week, you won't see me posting for a while until power is restored, but hopefully that won't happen! I pray for the safety of all of us along the east coast, and I also pray for people's homes and businesses. Everything is in God's hands - prayers for all.
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