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9 years ago
Really glad that ordeal is done! Man I was already getting scared from what was happening, not gonna lie
So basically Hurricane Matthew was coming by to party at a Cat 4. For those who don't know, Cat 4 hurricanes are the next thing from being catastrophic. So we were prepared for the worst. I only slept for 1 and half hours after work to be woken up by my parents the day before it hit to go out with them to places to find plywood. For those who live in Florida like I do, I cannot stress enough the value of investing in hurricane shutters. It is so damn stressful to be stuck in a Home Depot at 6:30 in the morning looking for plywood to find out they have nothing. Also, all the stores were out of water (And beer too, big surprise haha) so that was also something I can't stress enough on too. So we ended up actually getting some and meanwhile I was having a bit of an anxiety attack from everything going on, lack of sleep, potential damage to our home, possibly evacuating but I got myself together and got things prepared with my family. We were constantly watching the weather channel about what Matthew was doing, hoping to some benevolent being that it would move towards the east coast, away from all of us
It sorta did when Friday hit. We were told that at Friday around 4-5 pm, the winds would pick up. Well I had barely any sleep that night as well too since we had to get up early to do the last preparations and after all that I napped it tough. I woke up around 4 and nothing. So I got up, decided to plug my PS4 back in and played Bloodborne and waited to see what happened next. The winds didn't pick up until around 8 and they were tropical storm winds at best. Turns out, Matthew's winds were strongest right next to the eye and there was a distinct possibility it would go west and really mess us up badly. What ended up happening is that it turned slightly east and dispersed. In turn, it actually weakened a tad bit and we only got hit with Tropical Storm force winds. We got REALLY lucky in all honesty
Back to normalcy for now though, I'll see if I can't upload a few pieces of work, I've just been seriously busy as of late
So basically Hurricane Matthew was coming by to party at a Cat 4. For those who don't know, Cat 4 hurricanes are the next thing from being catastrophic. So we were prepared for the worst. I only slept for 1 and half hours after work to be woken up by my parents the day before it hit to go out with them to places to find plywood. For those who live in Florida like I do, I cannot stress enough the value of investing in hurricane shutters. It is so damn stressful to be stuck in a Home Depot at 6:30 in the morning looking for plywood to find out they have nothing. Also, all the stores were out of water (And beer too, big surprise haha) so that was also something I can't stress enough on too. So we ended up actually getting some and meanwhile I was having a bit of an anxiety attack from everything going on, lack of sleep, potential damage to our home, possibly evacuating but I got myself together and got things prepared with my family. We were constantly watching the weather channel about what Matthew was doing, hoping to some benevolent being that it would move towards the east coast, away from all of us
It sorta did when Friday hit. We were told that at Friday around 4-5 pm, the winds would pick up. Well I had barely any sleep that night as well too since we had to get up early to do the last preparations and after all that I napped it tough. I woke up around 4 and nothing. So I got up, decided to plug my PS4 back in and played Bloodborne and waited to see what happened next. The winds didn't pick up until around 8 and they were tropical storm winds at best. Turns out, Matthew's winds were strongest right next to the eye and there was a distinct possibility it would go west and really mess us up badly. What ended up happening is that it turned slightly east and dispersed. In turn, it actually weakened a tad bit and we only got hit with Tropical Storm force winds. We got REALLY lucky in all honesty
Back to normalcy for now though, I'll see if I can't upload a few pieces of work, I've just been seriously busy as of late
Yeah its crazy, I've been living here in Florida for 21 years now and I've been through 5 hurricanes so far, maybe 4 if I'm miscounting but I've got plenty of stories to tell from all of em haha. We Floridians are a crazy bunch thats for sure and it can be sometimes scary, with all these storms and whatnot