Hurricane Update

School was cancelled for three days due to hurricane Milton. Given that Monday was already a teacher workday, we decided to evacuate to the mountains. We are enjoying beautiful fall weather and doing some puttering jobs around the property.

Anna and her fiancé Jordan are both here with us. They are still under a boil water alert in Blacksburg after Helene. What an eventful few weeks! They brought the cat with them, and she loves being at the cabin. We have picked some apples and this afternoon will attempt to can some apple pie filling. 
 

The power was out for most of yesterday back at home. I think that the internet is still down, but there isn't any visible damage. Milton exited in the north end of our county. We live in a very long skinny county, so it never ended up getting too close to where we live. There was some beach erosion of course, and some isolated damage from tornadoes, but far from the worst case scenario that it could have been. Jordan grew up in Bradenton, very near where the storm came in to Florida. Still, the fact that it came in south of Tampa was lucky, it could have been so much worse. 

I told Kurt as we were packing up to leave that he should make sure that I didn't forget to bring my sewing. Of course we both forgot and my hexies are hanging out at home. I have plenty of school work to keep me busy, but it sure would have been nice to stitch away at hexies while in transit.  I hope that everyone else is safe and dry. I will remember to post scraphappy Saturday first thing tomorrow. Hopefully Kurt will do a better job and helping me remember this time.