Thanks everyone for your prayers.
We fared quite well from the storm. We are physically well, and our house has no damage that I've found yet. Our fences did take a beating and we lost a section of the back fence.
I'm grateful for the camping and emergency preparedness items that we have. We have two hand crank radios, and it was nice to have some contact, albeit one-way, with the outside world. Headlamps are great for keeping your hands available. I'm also grateful for the storm shutters that came with our house. Having ample bottled water and a backup filter that we didn't need to use. A spray bottle and battery powered fan were also great in the heat.
Things that would have been helpful.
A more powerful power inverter to keep the fridge running (use your car as a generator).
A generatorGrill with lots of charcoal (we had gas still, but it heats up the house unnecessarily)
Adapter to charge our cell phone from our hand crank items, and to have the car charger available (I found it the day after we got power).And a special thanks to the Cox's in our ward, who opened their lovely home (with power) to us for a couple of days.
2 comments:
Glad to hear that you guys were safe. Good ideas for being prepared. We are making a list for things to be better prepared for next time.
We could all take some stock of our supplies and get prepared. Good ideas.
Love, Linda
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