Hurricane Hanna

On September 1, 2008 we were hit with our first Hurricane. it was a category 1 and for me it was scary because I had never been through a hurricane before. The night of the 1st the kids were asleep and i was just getting some of our important papers put into the briefcase for us to grab when needed. the power went out and the house began to shake. That was very scary!! Tim came into the bedroom and told me to get the boys. He had Alexis and so I went into the boys room and woke them up and said we needed to get out of the house. So we ran out to the concrete Sunday school room and spent the night there. It was a long night.

Here I am trying to cook on our one burner propane stove. WE did this for 26 days.

Here i am on the beach during Hurricane Hanna. It was very windy.

A beach shot

Between the two hurricanes we had a couple of days to prepare. We were still without power so we had to do laundry on the washboard. the kids thought this was fun for awhile, but after doing about seven loads of laundry this way I was very, very tired.

Since we had no power, but we could dip water out of the cistern. Tim rigged up this shower for us. We would heat water on the propane stove and put it in the bucket with some cold water. It had a spicket on it. At least we were able to stay clean.