It's not the first time I've been impressed with your parenting/teaching inventiveness. :)

If I had kids right now, they'd be on a hunt for roaches (the mary jane kind :D ~ I just found a stash of them. :D Yes, I know I should be childless!)

*knock on wood* If I told my kids to hunt roaches...they would hopefully get the fly swatter:p......and they'd have to go outside to find them!!!!!!!!!

lilith i hope every goes as good for you as it has for us here
we lost power but got it back ........ so we have been greatful ..... but i am still alittle nervouse cause after it passes to the gulf it is supposed to regain streghth and we as still in it path ........... I WISH YOU THE BEST as i do everyone ............. please let me know how everything turns out ......... the pictures i sent were the worst so far .... if it gets any worse from here it will be to dark to take anymore Pictures ......... STAY SAFE LILITH my prayers go out to you and your fam..........

TY whitetiger!!!!! ((hugs))



I just talked to Summer...no tower power but she is a smarty and has a generator! For her she said Charlie was worse but that this thing is boring the hell out of them. She had some minor water damage but otherwise all is ok!

Sitting here after a cloudless late summers day (no wind about 75F), I cannot help but TRY to imagine there conditions that some of our brave Pixieans are facing. And I can't. I see the coverage on the news but its one thing to see it, another to face it. Here in the UK we very rarely have to think of winds over 100mph so to all of you who have survived, thank the deity of your choice for it.

Hurricanes have interested me for years, probably because I never have to face them, but seeing the pix and reading the posts brings it home how awful they are.

Stay safe everyone in Fla, and hope Ivan misses you. Two in the space of a week would be too much to bear.

Concerned...

It's a comin' this wayyyyyyyy :(

Just went and made room in the garage to bring my car in...and brought the outside furniture inside the garage too.

What I'd give to be in let's say WASHINGTON right now! ah, what the heck, let's go to Hawaii

I am back. I lost my internet for the last few hours. Not the power though. So I got lots of things cleaned that have been neglected. Like my hall closet. :D

We are worried the storm will come back to hurricane force and whip around and get us from the back side tomorrow. Not sure yet what will happen. I know we have to now worry about our friends in the Panhandle. :(

Glad you are safe now Tess! My mom is south of Tampa and just heard all the transformers go POP!!!!! blacked out, in a tiny house with 14 people, 3 dogs, 2 cats, 2 guinea pigs, and 2 birds.

Glad to hear peeps are still ok. Will say more prayer's till it's all done. When this is over if anyone knows of anyone that needs some help, I've got girl's clothes and shoes for a girl. Size 4-6x, would be happy to send them at my expense of course. Would rather they be used where needed, then sit in the back room at the Goodwill's here. PM if needed. :)

It's dark and I can't really see outside anymore but I can hear the trees, they actually sound like the ocean. Except when I hear the cracks and the thuds :( It's barely drizzling. They've made all the people just south of me evacuate and are opening many of the schools as shelters. I think just the ones where they have generators.

Windy as hell again but instead of from the north the winds are blowing south and......... its blowing the bamboo againt the house .... sounds like a wall coming down ....its so loud the kidds cant sleep and nor can i ........ my god is it pouring .............. WB tess im glad you are ok ...... be safe all its not over for me till MON afternoon sometime i hope ........

Still have power and cable! Not sure whether it is better to see stuff blowing and flying about or if I liked the dark better!

Lilith, Heads down and spirits up.

Hope Mr Lil and the kids are coping.

So far so good! Mr Lil is fairly easy to entertain ;) and the kids are doing well so far. God help me if we lose power and I have to make them conserve their Game Boy batteries :p

Power is back!!!! Woohoo! Lilith is right, so far, all we have is water damage. Charley was worst and we didn't even get the eye from him. Frances had her eye on us but we managed. It is wonderful to see how neighbors and strangers pull together.

Lilith if you need power I will hop in hubby's truck and drive a generator up your way. I will need it back though because I think Ivan might come by for a visit! Ugh!

Thank you PF for all your good thoughts and wishes for all of us in Florida. It is people like you that make me smile! Peace and love to you!

Peace and Love to all of you wonderful Pixie peeps who keep us in your thoughts. (((((((((((((pixies)))))))))))))))

Well, must get back outside and help clean up all the tree debri. Atleast this time we didn't loose entire fruit trees! ;)

I just got back to my home a few minutes ago, I decided around 1 pm when my power went out ,yesterday to go ahead and cross the big bridge in town and go to my parents house bfore they closed the bridges, we close all bridges at 40 mph winds and last night around here I believe they said it topped out at 75 mph. My parents lost power around 6 last night and is still out but I have power at my house now but up and down the streets its spuratic who has power. I have a 4 year old and I didn't want to hang out at my parents anymore she was getting bored and since I had power I hopped on home. Jacksonville looks awful right now, lots of trees down and open power lines on the ground.
I feel the same as Lilith I wish I had taken this a bit more seriously and prepared a bit more for it. My parents are off this week to go get a generator, because they run off a well and pumps there isn't even water flow at there house.
Good luck to the guys that its coming through to.

It's good to see some Pixie's checking in and glad you are ok.

*Hugs* for a long day ahead Lilith.

Just checkin' in and seeing how everyone is doing today.

I think I'm in the eye...all was EZPZ here. No school tomorrow though :D So happy cause I have a test to study for!

Hi Pixies, I just got back online after losing it yesterday right after I made my post on this thread. It has been a hard three days. But for us the worst we suffered is a very messy yard and no internet for almost two days. Oh and my phone is out. Try having a teenager that can't have a phone. :rolleyes:

But three days of none stop news coverage and watching the big trees around my house whip around with sudden wind gust and torrential rain for the last two days has worn me out. Everytime I heard a branch hit the roof I thought a tree was coming down. But we are fine and all is good now.

That is until we see what Ivan is going to do. :(


I am still praying for everyone in the path of Frances.

It's not supose to be coming here, but it sure is ugly outside...and making me nervous....

Here is a thought. All the people in Flordia can move to Manitoba during hurricane season, and then from about mid Dec until mid April we will all move to Flordia.

Good idea!!^^^^^ I am ready to move. :rolleyes:

Er, you should check the weather reports before you agree to anything, Tess. And don't get me started on the bugs there! :D

Steph, work with me on this and I will let you join us on the Flordia portion.

Yeah, what was I thinking? But then again, do you want a bunch of sexy women in your house shivering? Wait . . . I see where this is going!

Hi All,

I heard from 2 of our Florida Pixies today...

Dick aka. Joe: "The storm passed about 150 miles to the east of us. All is well here"
and
Loves2Laugh: "All is well so far, I am without power(at my moms right now), lost some trees and my fence, but I am ok"

So glad everyone is ok :

thought we had weathered the storm ......... then at 500am yesterday morning they came in and evacuated us with sirens ........... 8 ft tidal surge they said ...... so i went to a motel ...... came back it never flooded so i am thankfull ........ but there is so much destruction out here and some did get flooded ........ I have to move all my funiture back down stairs ........leaving most of it up here till after Ivan ........ Sigh is this ever going to end ?????? but anyways i am home now i will send out some photos when i can ...... lots of clean up work to do ..... talk to you all soon ........ I am happy that everyone made it through .............. THANK GOD
And thank everyone for there prayers ............ we needed them ........

Glad you are ok!!! Sorry it's still dragging out!

Glad to hear your ok whitetiger.

Has anyone heard from ProphetReality yet?

:wave:

I am home and have power finally. Made it over the bridge last night, but no power at all. So opened all the windows and doors and wished for the best. I lost 2 oaks trees in my back yard that was used for shade. Had to cut those down and hail them out tomorrow. Finally got power around 4 o'clock. Glad I have a generator, Lost some food, but have plenty of water and ice now. Thanks for all the prayers and good wishes. Now lets hope Ivan changes his mind!

Glad everthing is ok.

Yea all the Pixie's checked in!!!!! So glad your all alright!!

Now if only Ivan will weaken or take a different route. (Although I don't wish anyone trouble. :()

Hey everyone!

Sorry, just got the messages about this thread. I'm in Jacksonville, FL and we were very lucky here. Lost power from Sunday evening into very early Monday morning, had a tree start to blow over and some limbs down, but that's it. Here's praying the next one comes and goes quickly!

It's just not fair, you all start to clean up from one storm and another one decides to drop by. Could'nt they be at least months apart instead of weeks.

Where is Mother Nature's suggestion box, I want to file my complaint!!

Good to hear your ok FLGrl!!!!!!

Well......not sure what to think of Ivan yet....

I think he will piss himself out quite a bit before he gets up here to us IWM.

Everyone be safe this week and keep in touch when you can!!!

hugs to all of ya!

:eek: after watchig the weather up here in MD, more than alittle worrried about our Pixies in the panhandle!! Batten down the hatches, be safe and get out if you need to! Hope all down there make it through relitively unscathed. I hope that I'm not alone saying our thoughts are with you!!