we will run and not grow weary
Jul. 24th, 2003 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chestnutcurlsWell, the power has been restored at my office, so I'm back at work today. I'm glad, because I was getting tired of sitting around in a hot, quiet apartment. Staying home is fun when you have electricity, but not fun when you don't.
Kathy and I, and Kathy's dad with his chainsaw, cleared one side of our driveway yesterday so we could get out of the complex. We told him he was like Moses, letting his people go. :) It took much less time than I had anticipated, but I'm still covered in scrapes and mosquito bites. It was a good thing we did it ourselves, because all the other piles of debris are still sitting there. Every time we drove through the cleared space yesterday, we were like, "Wow, who did this? That was so nice of them! They ought to get a discount on their rent!"
On our way out to Bartlett to our parents' homes yesterday, we got our first real tour of the destruction. Galloway Golf Course, where I like to walk, is a depressing sight. Almost every other big tree is snapped or uprooted. "It's a sad day for the Ents," said Kathy. As we headed east, things looked better. My parents had been going on and on about how bad the damage was in their neighborhood, but we quickly saw that they had no idea what "bad" meant. One house was badly damaged, with half the roof gone and the windows blown out, but other than that it was just a few shingles missing. Compared to the mass killing of the old trees, it was nothing.
I took pictures of our neighborhood right after the storm, but I can't upload them until our power comes back. (It may be a while, since one of the lines is trapped under a huge fallen tree.) In the meantime, the Commercial Appeal website has some incredible photos and good articles about the storm. I'm going to go to the break room and get more ice now. Because I can. :)
Kathy and I, and Kathy's dad with his chainsaw, cleared one side of our driveway yesterday so we could get out of the complex. We told him he was like Moses, letting his people go. :) It took much less time than I had anticipated, but I'm still covered in scrapes and mosquito bites. It was a good thing we did it ourselves, because all the other piles of debris are still sitting there. Every time we drove through the cleared space yesterday, we were like, "Wow, who did this? That was so nice of them! They ought to get a discount on their rent!"
On our way out to Bartlett to our parents' homes yesterday, we got our first real tour of the destruction. Galloway Golf Course, where I like to walk, is a depressing sight. Almost every other big tree is snapped or uprooted. "It's a sad day for the Ents," said Kathy. As we headed east, things looked better. My parents had been going on and on about how bad the damage was in their neighborhood, but we quickly saw that they had no idea what "bad" meant. One house was badly damaged, with half the roof gone and the windows blown out, but other than that it was just a few shingles missing. Compared to the mass killing of the old trees, it was nothing.
I took pictures of our neighborhood right after the storm, but I can't upload them until our power comes back. (It may be a while, since one of the lines is trapped under a huge fallen tree.) In the meantime, the Commercial Appeal website has some incredible photos and good articles about the storm. I'm going to go to the break room and get more ice now. Because I can. :)
