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Got locked in the bathroom

Last night I went into our bathroom before bed and closed the door. When I went to go out the knob would not turn. I tried turning it both ways many times and nothing.. it wouldn’t budge. I was in there for 10 minutes trying to get out and wishing the door had one of those push bars like some commercial doors do.

It was late, after 11:30 pm, and hubby had fallen asleep on the couch in the living room and I didn’t want to go pounding on the door and yelling. That would have bothered the neighbors and there was nothing they would be able to do except knock on the front door and maybe wake hubby up.

I kept trying to open the door and it finally opened. By that time I was wide awake again so I got on the computer for a bit. I finally got sleepy and went to bed when a bad thunderstorm hit. There was constant thunder and lightning. It poured and poured and the wind was blowing like crazy. This went on for a good 45 minutes. During this time the upstairs neighbors got a bit loud while “enjoying each other”.

I finally fell asleep sometime after 3 am. I don’t know for sure because during the storm the electric went out for a few minutes and my clock was flashing.

So that was my night/morning. How was yours?

Oh.. I just realized I posted this on the wrong blog. Oh well. I’m not going to move it now.

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Hannah

Yesterday Tropical Storm Hannah came ashore in the Carolinas. My son lived in Myrtle Beach and he said it wasn’t bad at all. He won’t need to use his NC health insurance.. thank goodness. Hannah continued up the east coast and by the time she arrived in our area we some high, but not real bad, winds and some very heavy downpours.

Driving around today I really didn’t see much in the way of damage. There were a few small limbs down here and there but nothing major. We had a lot more damage from Gloria back in 1985. There were quite a few trees down in the neighborhood and we ended up with water in the basement. Our electric went out for hours then and it didn’t even flicker this time. With Gloria we had lots of thunder and lightning.. this time there was only a rumble or two of thunder.

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It’s raining

It’s raining.. it’s pouring. We’re in the middle of another storm. We’ve had several today already. It’s pouring so hard it’s like someone turned on the Danze faucets. It’s thundering, lightning and windy as heck. We have a severe thunderstorm watch until 8pm and have had about 3 severe thunderstorm warnings since this morning.

It’s gotten quite dark in here and I guess I should get up and put a light on. It almost looks like night time outside. The storm isn’t right on top of us but it is getting close. I think I’m going to shut down the computer so it doesn’t get fried. Later!

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