Month: August 2023

Sitting and waiting for the arrival of Idalia, there is not much to do. It gives me time to reflect on the last few months. The thing that repeatedly comes to mind is the strong community we have. Here I am referring to our friends, neighbors and family. When great kindness is extended to me, I admit that I do not know how to react at times. And, there have been many acts of tremendous kindness extended to Tina and I during this process.

• Neighbors helped with tasks during the packing and disposition of stuff many times. This was at times hard physical work.
• Tina and I were invited by a neighbor to spend our last night in West Hartford with them in their home.
• A neighbor stored a piece of furniture that didn’t make it into the Pod.
• Another neighbor stored a bunch of stuff for Jim as he will likely come back to New England after his internship in California.
• The pond association had a party for us.
• The street had a block party for us.

These and many other kindnesses were frankly unexpected, generous and tremendously appreciated by Tina and me.

The rain squalls have started; the tornado warnings as well.

Now we are at 4:00 pm. Some wind gusts but nothing of great note. The powers that be are still predicting life threatening winds. If we have been bypassed by the major part of the storm I hope people will not get complacent and ignore warnings next time.

But we are not yet through this adventure. High winds are still predicted through the early evening.

Well, this hurricane turned out to be pretty much a nothing burger. Fortunately so.

Yes we are anticipating the arrival of Idalia. However, looking at the last couple of months, Idalia is just the last one in a series of hurricanes:

• We sold the house in Connecticut
• We packed up a Pod
• We moved
• We unloaded the Pod

Now we are in the midst of sorting out a house full of stuff and not making it look cluttered. Fortunately Tina is in charge of design and she is good at making things look good.

So we are putting stuff away, making trips to “God’s Goods” (A Christian thrift store like Goodwill) and getting ready for the big storm. A neighbor came by to ask if we needed help with storm prep, the Club sent out a notification that all Club operations were closing for the storm and an insurance agent called to cancel our meeting. So, maybe there is something to this storm.

It has been a while since I last made a post to this blog. A lot has happened.

We sold our house in CT

We packed a Pod full of stuff

We relocated to our house in Bluffton,SC.

We are facing our first hurricane

Idelia is projected to track across northern Florida and go through the Hilton Head, Bluffton Savannah area. I usually don’t give much credence to the projections as they tend to drift over time. Also, media tends to project hysteria as that sells ad time. But, the projections are staying in place and one source is predicting a level 1 hurricane in Bluffton.

I will keep posting as long as it looks like interesting things might happen. In truth, I am not getting excited yet as there was not a run on the grocery store when we went this afternoon. And, I do not see locals boarding up windows yet.