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Scoot, HL and Athena - are you all o.k.?  If you can, please check in - worried about you.

Hi Everyone,

We had an unreal wind storm last night.  75 mph winds blowing like crazy.  My oak tree lost a ton of branches and the yard is covered in debri.  Thank goodness my truck wasn't parked under the trees last night.

It's hot here today.  A friend in Richmond is without power due to the same wind storm. It's too freakin' hot to walk Tank and he's very sad about it.

Glad to see Anne check in ... she's been on my mind.

I wonder if Scoot and Libby lost power too.

Jancie .. I am so sorry to hear about your DH's nephew.  Such a sad tragedy for everyone.

Lost Creek .. Welcome.  Please stay and post often!

Hope everyone can stay cool today.

hugs,

Bren

Hi, all. Hot Libby here today -- no power in Northern Virginia. About half a million customers dark in NoVa ... 1.5 mil throughout the entire region. We lost power just as the storm hit last night, although we had been having dim-outs and surges for about 30 minutes beforehand as the storm blasted through to the west of us and started taking down power lines. I had just turned the AC off (to avoid damaging the compressor) when a boom and a flash out front heralded the loss of our power. About half the tree across the streed fell onto the next door neighbor's porch. It only took out a railing, though -- our street was lucky. We saw a lot of trees plopped on cars or roofs (rooves?) (;-D) or cars and roofs. Dunno when our power will come back ... About 60% of my tiny municipality is dark. Hope Ang 7, who lives not too far away, is OK. Haven't yet heard from Scoot, but I am out of phone service, too. All the hotels are booked, too. They are talking about new t'storms tonight. Such is DC metro in summer ... We do get some wild storms.



Jancie, I am so sorry about your husband's nephew.



L

June has not been a good weather month ... glad to see it go.  We have been at 100+ temps and no rain.  Doing a rain dance here ... it is horribly dry.  Brown grass everywhere you look.  I think most places are cancelling their fireworks plans for the 4th.

Came here to check on those of you around the wildfires and hit by the storms last night.  Glad to see most of you have checked in.  Scary stuff!

We are headed up to the Indiana Dunes area next week.  Will visit with kids/grandkids who live up that way and other kids/grandkids who have rented a lakefront house for the week.  Hope it cools down a little bit but will be fun anyway.

I'm happy to announce that my foundling kitten went to his new indoor home Tuesday night.  Good adoptive parents, he has a kitty sister to play with, and since they are friends I will be able to keep in touch with the little stinker.  It's all good!  Well ... except that I miss him.  But my old lady cat does not miss him ... she is celebrating. 

Wishing everybody a nice 4th of July ... and safety and relief from wildfires, storm damage, heat, med side effects and all other crappy stuff. 

And apologies for rudeness - welcome to you, lost creek!

Also hoping scoot is ok....

Susie, that is one way to keep your husband from being annoying, keep him sedated

I am ready to purchase a ten day rain forecast from anyone willing to sell! I'm tired of sweating...it's just never been in my vocabulary. The heat has made the caterpillars grow rampid and are eating everything. The air conditioning is going to be

nixed pretty soon if we over due I think. Then I'll really sweat.:(

Susie..you're right. You can never have enough wine. Would I love 7 cases right now in my grubby little hands. Doesn't that just give you the sense of 'power'. Haha.

I couldn't believe the pictures either of the trees that were uprooted.  Takes some hell of a wind to get trees that huge to uproot like that.

Hope the heat calms down for those suffering from it.  It is hot and dry here but not too bad.  The worst is the smoke that is blowing in from the south from all of the fires.  How people in Colorado are breathing right now - I have no clue - it can't be good for you.

DH landed in DC last night along with his oldest brother.  He called me this morning (I was sleeping) and said he would call later on tonight.  The three boys are going into DC this morning to walk around.

Thanks HappyLibby~

We just got our power back.  It was 84 degrees in the house last night and I made the dogs come downstairs, dragging our 13 year old Newfie as he does not like stairs but I was afraid to leave him up there all night.

Now throwing stuff out of the fridge.

My mom ( who is a bit nutty ) watched the whole storm from her attic in Arlington!

"Thought the whole roof might blow off" 

Why was she not in the basement?  She said it was the "best show she has ever seen."

They still do not have power.

They had those boys practice ball from 12 - 2 and then play the game from 2-4 on Saturday.

My son is not doing All-Stars next year.

They are just lucky that nothing happened to those kids.

Scoot here! We never lost power but my mom did. Operation Hot Mom went into affect yesterday so mom is happily with us and our a/c.



Our area rarely loses electricity since our lines are buried. I feel for those like HL, Athena and Ang who are suffering in this heat. Nasty sruff.



Thanks, everyone, for your concern!

I never lost power Scoot. HL did.

Artsee - I asked my onc about melatonin and he didn't know about it. I took it based on what the Aussie ladies on here were saying. It's not approved here except by prescription, but I ordered it from Biovea after doing my own research. Your natural melatonin levels drop in the early hours of the morning and as we get older we don't make as much. I'm thinking maybe it was the change to Aromasin from Arimidex that has put my sleep back to normal or a build up of melatonin from taking the supplement.

Don't evny you girls the wild weather - sounds like Australia in Summer - fires, storms - hope you don't get floods next.

Susie

the only non-prescription that's ever helped me sleep is Valerian Root. Most health food stores have it in liguid, a few drops under the tongue, or in water.  It's the only thing I can take whe I wake up in the middle of the night, and go back to sleep, without feeling drugged in the am.

Of course, there's also good ole antihistamines!  But they can really dry out your throat, nasal passages.  With the sun rising at about 5 am, I seem to be getting up earlier now.

Scoot - glad you've got electricity.  I'm with Ang, I can imagine wanting to watch. We had a horrendous ice storm a few winters back, and the sound of the trees, limbs, cracking - for an ex-city girl, sounded just like gunfire! Sun out the next morning, and it was like being in a crystal wonderland - thanks for generators here too!

Mercy, we're all sufering at the hands of the weather! I get too irritable. At least my Pilates epuipment and the guest bedroom are in the basement where it's a bit cooler. We've been working all day in my hot wal-in closet. The old wire shelving (which apparently was never installed correctly) gave up the ghost and crashed down. Overburdened, my DH said. I think the cats did it...Anyway, replacing shelves means painting, a new closet shelving unit, a new light, a mini-swamp cooler, and a broken toe. Mine. I stubbed it on a dresser. Damn that hurts, but it's a good excuse to use an ice pack in this heat!

At least we have no humidity. I feel for my East Coast sisters with no power and A/C!!

Thinking a visit to the west coast sounds good, but can't do it this month. I'm just gonna melt...

Thanks, all. Still no power. 81 in my house, 95 on the deck right now this minute. Ugh. Spent 4 hours at the post office charging up phones and iPad - it was air conditioned and had electricity and outlets. We took food, reading materials and chairs. We are so odd.



It was quite a show. Today DH sawed the limb off the tree across the street that was hanging up the power lines. Too long to describe here, but suffice it to say it violated about 15 OSHA standards and left me shaking. However, it makes it easier for them to turn our street's power back on.



We just got back from dinner (Olive Garden Fair Lakes) and there were 5 power trucks lined up on the shoulder of the highway one exit from our exit. DH hollered, "Flash them -- maybe they'll follow us home!" We're still laughing...



Glad that Scoot and Athena kept power and Ang has power back. I vote we use Ang's son's little league coach as a fuse on the next main transmission line they repair. Then he might like to see how it feels to be fried out there .... Those poor little boys!



Hot Libby