We made it through our first hurricane! It rained most of the afternoon yesterday and around dinner time the rain and wind started to pick up. Brent worked for a little while, but Pat's had to close because the governor put driving restrictions in effect. The babies were in bed and the big people were playing euchre and then came a tornado warning (about 10ish)! We gathered Kyle and Emily, my pump (very thankful for the new one that will run on batteries!), some bottles, diapers, blankets, a computer, our phones, and flashlights and we headed to the basement. There was already some water at the bottle of the stairs, so we got wet feet. We found a dry spot and very shortly (within minutes) the power went out! We kept track of the tornado warnings with the internet on my phone (we don't have a battery powered radio), and once we were in the clear we headed up stairs. We played with the babies a bit, fed them again and put them to bed in a pack'n'play in the living room. Mike went upstairs to go to bed, and eventually my mom did too. I stayed awake for a little bit while Brent took a nap. Then I slept on the couch while Brent stayed awake and listened to the radio on my phone to make sure it was safe for us not to be in the basement. About 2am our power came back on, so Brent watch the news on the TV for a while. Eventually my mom came back downstairs and watched with Brent. I was awake a little bit here and there. About 5am, we lost our cable and internet.
After the babies morning nap and feeding, my mom and I wanted to go for a walk. We took the babies with us and didn't make it very far before it started raining. We ended up going for a drive instead and Mike went us. Here are some pictures...
There was some pretty made flooding right down the road from us (the road was closed in front of Food Lion), but we didn't go that way to look.
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