hurricane

It seems we got off…

pretty easy as hurricane Matthew whipped  up the coast…it was going to be much worse if Matt stayed on course…but just as it got to Brevard Co. it made a slight jog to the east and we got lucky…but not so much up the rest of the east coast…now we did have tons of damage but not as bad as it could have been….

sign at the local Mcd plaza

The pic below was taken a week after …they used our Walmart parking lot as a stagging area for the work force that show up to put things back together again…took up over half the lot..barely enough room for customers…they all left a few days later…they also had 6 big buses parked there ….the only thing i could think of why they were there…maybe need to  trasport workers to motels…

Workers from all over the US to lend a hand…

This pic is of a street across from the house…much debris strewn about…as i was out and about i think our neighborhood got more damage than most …but we were rigth on the intercoastal …so not suprised…

a lot of trees for the city to pick up

Looking up our street standing in front of the house…

all most 2 weeks and still in sad shape…

And the back yard…i had that table wedged between the wall and the shed and it blew it right out and blew the mulch up against the wall and lifted the landscap mat up…

strange wind …

More debris…in the back yard….the front yard here is open and everything just blew rigth tru …but not so much in the back…

and my poor frog garden … at least i could put it back together again….

frogs hither and yon

And the rest of the story…

When the weatherman pretty much established it was going to be a cat 4 hurricane i decided to evacuate…I  went to west coast of Florida to an RV friends house…and of course i was a nervouse wreck the whole time untill i finally heard the house was ok…i think the electric was off for 48-72 hrs. it was back on Sat. night so i came back Sun….i could not put up the hurrican shutters but dad good friend Ron did it…and i was able to get then down with the help of neighbor friend Vonnie…she came after work one day & helped…Now i am back to purging…packing for storage and sorting…with a little more yard work to do inbetween…it is a slow process doing it by myself…today i started to clean the RT…we are Leavin on Sunday for Lake Kissimmmee St. Park…for a 3 day camping trip with Margie & fur babies…I am excited this will be my really frist time staying more than over night…I am going to figure out how to stay in it long term for a few months…untill i can figure out where i want to plant myself…still want my home base to be in Florida but thats is about all i know…

pheebe in big sister maggies buggy…

But this weekend she will be getting a new buggy…one that is smaller and folds up…this one does not do that…is to big and hard to store…it was hard to store in the class C and in the RT almost impossible…that is the one thing i have a problem with is storage …especially things i need to carry withe me…like i need hard back chair cant use reg camp chairs…and i am gettign a Clam outside screen room a small one but still need to carry it with us…it will be a challenge…well all for now thanks for looking and come back soon …blessings GM&P

 

West coast …geocache….

We are still here….

on the west coast of Florida…the news is that dads house is still standing just a minor board of on the back sofit…i will do a post when i get back and take some pix….in the mean time Pheebe and i finally got out & about around the Crystal River area and did some exploring and geochacheing…

 

Nice little neighboring town

On Thurs. was a nervous wreck waiting on Matt….it was pretty nice here but i could not bring myself to get out and about…waiting on something like that is not anyting i want to do again…i had no TV …i depended on my friend Margie for info she would text me tell me what was going on…news stations had non stop coverage…

First cache we found

Late Thurs. found out from friends & neighbors that the house was still standing and with-stood Matt….some in the hood were not so lucky with house damage and there were many many trees down…was told it was very sad to look at…

Where the second cache was hid…

We went to a nice little town that had some Geocaches in a park that looked kind of easy to find…Beverly Hills….the above pic is of the second one we found there were 2 of these along a 2 lane road…not a highway but road in the development the park was in…so had easy parking to find them…there were more but it was raining…i didnt mind the rain but wanted to find a few more that were not like these i can come back and pick the rest off…

Second cache…

The pic above is the cache hid at the bottom of the sign…easy peasy…in side the small tube is a log to sign…

Fourth one found…

The forth one found was a magnet box like a key keeper….inside log in a zip mini bag to keep it dry…

The other sign cache with diff. container

Everytime i got a cache in the RT Pheebe had to sniff and check it out…but in the pic below i had stopped at McD for a sauage muffin and she like that better than the caches…. too cute…

Pheebe more interested in a bite of sauage muffin than in a cache…

I am writing this Sat. afternoon…getting my stuff togeather to head back to Melbourne in the morning….it will be Sunday so am hoping that the traffic will be light..but with the weather happening who knows…but i really dont mind I love driving my RT! This is really the first time i have been able to spend time using it…did not sleep in it but was out & about and driving …was great…i know i am going to love camping in it…thanks for looking and come back soon …blessings GM&P

We are out of here…...

Pheebe and i headed out…

we evacuated Melbourne yesterday moring to get out of the way of hurricae matt….sso glad we did…buy whaat i am hearing from my friend Margie ( i have no TV here no news source)it is going to be a very very bad storm…you all can see it on CNN and other news stations…

my co-pilot

We left Melbourne headed to the north west coast of Florida…Crystal River area…i was alone there at the house and after thinking and weighing everything decided i had to leave..dads friend came today and put up the hurricane shutters…and i put evevythig i could away…and now hoping for the best……...

 

stopped along the way

I have no idea when  i will be able to get back to Melbourne…they are saying be prepared to go days or weeks with out power…and that would be one of the reasons i will not alowed back in to the community or even Melbourne…that was one reason my dad never wanted to leave..afraid he could not get back to take care of the house…

breakfast at McD’s this morning

When i got here figured out i did not bring enough food or clothes so off to WaMart this morning …i am scared silly being here alone we are to get tropical storm wind and storms even this far away…but also about Melboure and the house the neighbors and everything involved…they said if you dont get a way from the beach area you will not make it…there has been alot of mandatory evacuation all along the coast…there is so much more going on and involved with this storm…but i just can write about it now…pray for Florida people and all the south east coast…thanks for looking and come back soon ..Blessing GM&P