WE bugged out!

Remember 'Just Bill' of AOL Journals? He once said of my Journal, 'Not that they are great Jack, but at least your journal entries are printed LARGE.  Bill passed away before our planned get together in Colorado.

Now in large print, my girl is a 'skeer-d-cat', I thought everyone wanted to stay and watch the results of a hurricane, but not my girl!  LOL

So, Mark and I painted the house Wednesday (today as I write), so the paint would be ready for Matthew when he arrives.  This is Mark running for his truck getting ready to head for the West coast.

 He wanted to take his mama over to Daytona to see the 10' waves but she declined. LOL Telling him his mom and dad were 'bugging out' to central Florida.

Hark is outside getting ready to leave.  This is how excited Janie (Marl's fat Bulldog is).  

We were not under a mandatory evac, but on the map we were in the red.  So Sherry called Joe in Wildwood for reservations, so we are now here and set up. The funny thing was, when we left Deltona, it was sunny and NO wind.  Arriving here it was cloudy ad windy. LOL

I saw it in Sherry face when she felt the wind, a flash back at the last hurricane we tried to out run. A few years ago with a hurricane coming in on the West coast, the track showed Zephyrhills to be safe, so we headed there.  Found a campground, paid for the night and parked. turned on the TV and lo-and-behold the storm had changed tracks and was going to hit Zephyrhills. So we headed North, we drove north a couple hundred miles into Georgia.

We stopped for the night. During the late evening we were jarred with a giant Pine tree that fell parallel and  within 4 feet of our motor home and 50 mph winds, we again moved, but this time, to a strip mall and parked our home as close to the buildings as possible. This was out our side window into the parking lot:

 Other than shaking our home, we were fine. 

From Hurricane Ivan in Sept. 2004 we had little damage, the neighbors lost their roof. My flag looked like this:

I was amazed at the knots in the shredded mutilated USA Flag. And the other minor damage (comapred to our neighbor) was out pier raised about 6" on the port side.

 The worst damage was to our sea wall, we lost an 8 foot section.  The mutilated flag ad been flying from our water based flag pole.

We lived in Tavares on Lake Dora. We had three hurricanes that year, they all crossed the state.

Anyway, this year we are leaving Matthew. I was not worried about the little house. It is block, and it is solid. I might be wrong, but I do not expect any damage and they are calling for 70 mph winds there.

No one can predict exactly what the storm will do, but They do a pretty good job over all. It is much better to be safe than sorry. We will rider-r-out here, 60 miles away..

Nite Shipslog

 After son Mark and I painted an entire house I (Including most trim), Loading 400 lbs of limbs and stumps on a city recycle truck and cleaning up the yard of possible flying hazards, doing the material cleanup and getting the RV ready to bugout, I AM BEAT AGAIN.  I feel sorry for the falcon in a tree and for the confused car below