The past few days will go down in history.  The comparison I keep hearing is that “this is our Katrina” and that’s not inaccurate at all.

If God saw fit to humble us, He certainly did with Hurricane Helene.

As I write this it’s almost 7:30 pm EST on October 1st, 2024.  I was away from the house for much of the day so I don’t know when exactly the juice came back on but when I returned an hour ago the power was restored.  It had been out since a little before 8 on Friday morning, four and a half days ago.  So that’s about a hundred hours that we were without electricity.

I drove around the area on Friday night.   Didn’t get too far.  There were
big trees fallen all over the place, across the roadways.  I’ve never seen so many power lines down.

I had to ...