i had a sort of bizarre evening last nite. watched some tv, put some pix online, had pasta for dinner & acted as the weather reporter for my friends thousands of miles away.
i have friends in s. fla (east coast) where wilma was last nite. from about 8p-2a last nite we sms’d/IM’d. they have the whole hurricane shutter setup at the house & it seems like leaving didn’t even seem to be a conversation (actually, it prob was as i can hear the convo btwn them about this… ).
by about 8p (this is my time… it would have been very early in the am there… like 6a), she said they didn’t have power. by 9p, she said she could see explosions outside the door peephole. by 1030p, she said the pressure of the storm was making her ears pop. a little after 1a she said water was coming into the house under the doors.
in the meantime, i’m reloading maps from weather.com updating them on where the eye was & guessing how much longer they’d have. when i said i was about to go to sleep (the eye had passed & they were in the last bits of the storm. i had estimated an hour left as it was in miami), she said i couldn’t as i was their only weather report (didnt u guys have a radio? i thought u did?!). that was odd. now it’s tues morning here/monday early evening there. i sent her a txt this morning but haven’t heard back yet.
btw, i have heard from my friends. they have no power, no mobile battery, no running water & no food (huh? again… haven’t u guys heard of cans?). but they have a landline & a laptop w a charged battery. they’ve also rescheduled their airline flights so by the time i’m writing this hopefully they’ve reached their destination & will have a great holiday.