Monday Sept. 7

[Irmi]

Good morning ladies!

We just came inside from re-bungeeing our outside furniture together. Lots of people have left but we have not been ordered to evacuate. Many counties on the gulf coast have areas that have been ordered to evacuate. All I can say is that we will survive the storm with little to no damage.

[BarbaraRose]

Irmi, stay safe!!

[OregonLuvr]

I have several friends in the vicinity. This looks like such a scary storm. Hope any of your places sustain little to no damage. Keep us updated if you can. Will be thinking of you Irmi.

[OregonLuvr]

Good morning. My electrician just left after installing my ceiling fan in my kitchen dining area. It looks so good. Am done with all my electrical needs for now thank goodness. It is a smaller room so I got the smaller fan and light for it 42". The ones in the dining room and my bedroom are 52" and that would have overwhelmed the kitchen dining room so this is just perfect. Love it.

Making muffin tin meatloaf this morning so I can freeze some for later for heat and eat meals. I still need to go to the store but will go sometime this week. The sales come out Wednesday so might wait until then. Nothing much else on my agenda for today except a load of laundry, sheets and towels.

Just about lunch time so making chicken terriyaki bowl. Going to make some pecan cinnamon rolls while the oven is on. Feeling like a little something sweet.

[chalet05]

Irmi, I will be thinking of you along with all my other friends and relatives in the path of this storm.

[Irmi]

Steve and I have decided to bale and we're leaving in the morning in the car and going to Richmond Hill GA, about 5 hours north. We will stay there for 2 nights and hoping something might be left when we get back. It's not worth risking our lives for a killer hurricane, and this one sounds bad.

[Bethers]

Irmi, I'm so glad to hear you're getting out of the way of this one. Stay safe and alive. And hopefully you'll come home to things having survived but your lives come first. And hopefully this one will be the last of this season.

[OregonLuvr]

Irmi good for you, not worth the risk as this one sounds very deadly. Especially on tail of Helene. Altho most of that damage was north of you. Been watching the tv and this looks like a direct hit to your area. Stay safe on your trip north.

[Redetotry]

Oh Irmi I'm so relieved you and Steve decided to evacuate!! Take care on the road. Karen I know you must be happy to have all your electrical work finished! I should think about meatloaf muffins. Neither of us eat as much as we used to so that would take care of having too much left over. I hope all our other Florida friends will be safe.

[Cudedog]

Steve and I have decided to bale and we're leaving in the morning in the car and going to Richmond Hill GA, about 5 hours north. We will stay there for 2 nights and hoping something might be left when we get back. It's not worth risking our lives for a killer hurricane, and this one sounds bad.

Irmi, Whew! Excellent decision!!

I read your post this morning that you were going to stay - and this had me a bit worried. So glad you and Steve have decided to bail - Just now (6p.m. Pacific Time) I am reading that Milton's winds have ALREADY reached a mind-bending 180mph (high Category 5). Same article stated that Milton could reach Category 6 (192 mph) even though Category 6 does not yet officially exist!

And I am ALSO reading that Milton is thought to be taking a bulls-eye at the Tampa area - and that it is expected to remain a hurricane all across the state of Florida - and STILL remain a hurricane when it exits Florida into the Atlantic Ocean.

This one might really be the "one for the record books" that everyone always talks about. Irmi, I'm sending you luck, prayers and good wishes that you and Steve are able to get out of Florida speedily and safely, and that your Casita remains untouched by this storm.

Every one in the path of Milton, please take care, and evacuate if you can!!

Anne

[Acadianmom]

Irmi, glad you decided to leave. There isn't much you can do during the storm and afterwards you usually don't have power. Hope the traffic isn't too bad. Saw on the news that the power company trucks are heading out to Florida again.

One of the local ladies had to go into a nursing home and no one in her family would take her cat. My next door neighbor ask me if I would take her. We went and picked up the cat this afternoon. She is a big cat and is very scared. I don't think she has been around another cat in years. I have her in a big kennel in the living room. She will get to see a lot of cats here.

I walked out to the barn this afternoon and Luna followed me and rolled in some horse poop. She got hosed down in the yard.

Tomorrow I have to go get my car serviced so that will probably take most of the day since I'm going to Lafayette.

Martha

[monik7]

So glad you made that decision Irmi. No need to take chances.
Sandi

[JudyJB]

Ditto on everyone's comments on your leaving! Good decision.

I have a cousin and his wife who are still in Michigan because he has had some serious medical conditions and is still undergoing rehab. They are from Nokimis, FL, which is right in the storm's path, but at least they are safe. Their home is only a mile from the ocean. They were traveling in the west during the early summer, but he had some mini-stroked in ND, after a month there, they headed to upper MI where they have family, and he ended up with fungal meningitis and in intensive care for a while. He is doing much better, and luckily, they have two RVs in Michigan--one they leave there and a smaller one they travel in, so they have a place to stay in Michigan where they have family, but it is rough on them not being home to prepare things.

Barbie, the things I use for bugs are the Safer Home Traps. They work great for flies and gnats, but unfortunately, the internet says mosquitos are NOT attracted to ultraviolet light, so these will not work for those. https://home.howstuffworks.com/do-bug-zappers-fight-mosquitoes.htm

Anyway, if I find anything, I'll let you know. Need to do some research.

[SoCalGalcas]

Irmi and Steve, was very happy to see you two decided to go North! The reports are becoming more and more worse as the hours go by! Lyn