Milton

[Maxie]

Praying for all in Florida now ✝️🙏🏻

[linda040899]

It's been a rough week and there's lots of devastation, especially along the coast and low lying areas. Milton cross the state quickly, making landfall just before 8:30 and exiting the state shortly after 2:00 a.m. We have some damage, no power, downed trees/tree limbs, the usual stuff but nothing major. It will take time but we'll get there.

[Maxie]

I?m happy to hear you?re ok.

I have a friend that lives just north of Tampa?.she was filling me in as the storm passed.

[linda040899]

We are lucky compared to other areas! Most important is that we are safe. Things can be replaced, lives cannot. I don't know how many times I've said that to myself, over and over and over again. Our chickens really got scared because this kind of weather can mean death for them. They were safe in their coop and actually gave us 8 eggs yesterday. If nothing else, we have food, even if we have to cook it on the side burner on our grill!!

[Z28Taxman]

I bet your feral cat friend is glad to be out again too.

Good to hear you made it out ok. what I saw on tv looked scary. Woudln't want to have to sit through it in the dark. Sandy was bad enough.

[linda040899]

Tigger (cat) is an outdoor cat but he's not really feral. He belonged to someone at sometime in his life but I think he got left behind when his family moved away. He comes here to eat several times a day and the day the hurricane was due in this area, I decided that he may be an outdoor cat but finding shelter in that kind of weather was going to be next to impossible. He came in to eat and I closed the door behind him. He wasn't really upset, either, as I think he knew he was safe. Next morning, he went back out but he's been back every day for attention and food. We are very lucky. We have tree limbs down and we lost our west side fence. Our chickens were amazingly lucky. We have a 30' Live Oak tree just behind their coop and several large branches fell right up against the side of the coop. Had the limbs fallen on the plastic roof, it would have been all over. I was in FL for Sandy but my middle daughter lived through that hurricane. Was not pretty.