Alice Homeschools
A Home Based Education - Kindergarten year

I’m actually not sure where Hurricane/Tropical Storm Ernesto is right now (is he still around?) but last week, he was headed our way.

We are in Summerville, SC, northwest of Charleston. Well, northwest about 20 miles, maybe 25. So basically we are very close to the water thus I worried when they said it was headed toward us.

Last Tuesday and Wednesday were days that I spent worrying and wondering. I also checked the weather report at least every hour. It slowed down and then over the ocean, gained strength.

Thursday morning, work called Chris to say he had to go to work and be prepared to stay there for 24 hours. That annoyed me because okay this was my first hurricane/tropical storm experience and I had to go through it alone! Thanks a lot.

So he left for work and I cleaned/organized the garage, did two loads of laundry, a load of dishes and put a roast in the crockpot. Considering our electricity goes out when we get a drizzle, I figured we would be safe should it go out for longer then a half hour. I got up so early that I was finished with everything by 7:30AM!

The electricity didn’t even blink. We got rain and wind, and not even hurricane force wind, just a little. Our neighbor across the street was home and he had a buddy over. Every once in a while they were sitting outside smoking.

Chris got to come home around midnight which ended making his weekend a four day.

And the lesson is be prepared! I’m not sure what will happen the next time a hurricane comes through - I am great at getting the house together, but I’ve never had to evacuate. But the laundry was done, the garage clean (we can actually park a car inside!), the dishes were done very eary and we had food. So Thursday was spent hanging out and not really doing a lot.

I admit I didn’t talk to the kids about the hurricane either. We’ve talked about weather and such because we get such loud thunder when it storms - talking both the science aspect (cold and warm air) and culture (it’s Thunder Beings). They have taken to repeating what we’ve told them when it does thunder, I think that helps to calm them down to have some sort of explanation.