A Philosophical Question....

From Nicholas, that turned into a hurricane and made landfall near Freeport, Texas just south of Houston, here in Corpus we only got wet. "He" stayed clear of our home. No flooding in our neck of the woods. I'm not sure about other parts of the city, or what happened on the islands with the extreme low-lying areas and the water/storm surge. I understand, by the local news coverage, power outages were minimal; we weren't affected. The winds were gusty at times. In fact, by mid afternoon, we actually saw patches of blue sky...but it soon disappeared and the clouds built up heavily again, but non-threatening. We fared pretty well, thank you.  My biggest concern is our son in Houston.  Am waiting to hear from him.  Now, since we freeze water in bottles for our coolers [ice is very hard to find in stores during the days BEFORE a storm...so we improvise and make our own.  In fact the larger iced bottles of water stay frozen much longer than bagged ice cubes!!] to keep food stuffs cold during loss of power, and Bud kept busy reassembling our BBQ'r to heat drinking water for his French coffee press and my daily oatmeal breakfast.  Today, once I know Erik is okay, we will be taking things out of the freezer [water bottles] and Bud will pack away the small cooker for next time so it isn't cumbersome and in the way in our garage.  The ice goes out on plants in the yard, and we will begin saving more of the bottles for the use in the future if need be.  In case you're concerned with heating water as we do, we use our covered front porch because so many lives have been lost with using such devices indoors and dying because of carbon monoxide poisoning.  Just common sense.  Now, maybe it's too early, but perhaps later...are you ready for a smoothie?----

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