Hurricane Matthew

We are sitting here waiting for the hurricane to pass over. It is supposed to arrive here around noon today, but who can really predict that?

We have been told that it might cross over land but we don’t know for sure. I was able to get online to read the news reports last night but today the Internet seems to be throttled back so that all I can do is chat and email. Good job Hughes Internet! When you really need service, they’ll make sure you don’t have it. (long story)

So I really don’t know what’s going on, it’s raining and a little bit windy. The creek is up about 3 feet from all the rain the last 2 days. I guess there is flooding and landslides in Honduras and Guatemala which is not good. They have much higher concentrations of people so the damage that happens is always worse than here.

All the people living near the coast and on islands have been evacuated to more inland locations. I guess there are shelters set up in the town nearest us just in case. They even cancelled school yesterday so people could get ready. There were people stocking up on food and boarding up windows in town.

Brad figures we don’t need to worry too much as the winds are predicted to be 50mph but I still think that is strong. Since our windows are always open- and we can’t really close them, do I need to move everything from in front of them? Do we have to bring everything inside? I don’t know. I guess I’ll find out. It might not even reach us as we are 45 miles from the coast. We don’t need to worry about enough food, water and power as we are pretty self sufficient that way. Now seems like a good time to read a book.

Update:
It is one day later and all is well. There really was not much more than a rainstorm here. By 2pm the sun was coming out. Today it is sunny and hot- back up past 30!

It seems our biggest problems these days are the spiders and termites! We’ve been trying to get rid of them for weeks.

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