Yes, although prayers might be better than dreams. ;-)
How are things in God's country, on the eastern shore of Virginia? That's one of my husband's and my "dream locations" for a future move. Someday we're going to escape from the People's Republik of Connecticut and head South. Somewhere between Virginia and Florida. No plans to move yet though...
I love the people and spirit of Texas, but not sure we can stand the heat.
Doing the prayer thing as well!..
All is well here on the Shore - friends are all debating about whether to leave Chincoteague or not. We had plans for spending the weekend up in Delaware leaving tomorrow morning and coming back Sunday afternoon. As of now we’re still going, but coming back Saturday afternoon - that may change again. We shall see.
Of course if the Shore is ordered evacuated that’s where we would go any so. But I doubt there will be evac orders, except possibly for visitors on Chincoteague.
I’m not trying to alarm anyone.
But.
If you possibly can it might be useful to get a few 5gal gas cans from a hardware store and fill them. Also, fill all your vehicles. If you’re just w/o power for a few days you won’t have to worry if your gas station has power to pump or not. If the storm goes to sea you can use it to fill your car(s) next week.
My main concern is this. All those refineries in Elizabeth, NJ and other places on/near the coastline up there are probably beginning shutdown procedures about right now. It takes a while for them to do that. It will take a while for them to be back online again. The pumping stations on the pipelines they feed will also need electrical power.
My experience with Katrina, 100+m from the MS gulf coast was this: There were a few gas stations that got power back quickly, within a day or two. Unfortunately due to the infrastructure damage in/around the pumping stations further south the gas pipelines from Houston, TX area and Baton Rouge weren’t working. Gas had to be trucked in via tanker truck from TX. It was reserved for law enforcement, fire and ambulance services and for the power company trucks. It was *very* iffy with availability to normal civilians for a couple of *weeks*. Even though by then most neighborhoods had power, gas was in very short supply. Everyone was ‘back at work’ but some people had trouble finding the gas to get there/back.
Just something to think about. Hopefully no one will inadvertently blow up their garage?