So the last couple of days have been awful. I haven’t slept in well over 24 hours. I spent the night with my parents Friday and “slept” on their couch, meaning…I got no sleep whatsoever. I had watched a couple YouTube videos before my phone died and then…nothing. Nothing to watch, nothing to read, nothing to do, just laid there in a fair amount of pain staring into the darkness. Dad’s dog Lucy was kind enough to guard me all night which I appreciated. It would have been worse if I was out there alone. I was already depressed about the whole disaster, but after talking to their neighbours I really started to freak out. One of their grandsons had gone around finding out all he could about when things would open again, when the electricity and water would come back on and where we could possibly get water, because there is a big shortage. It’s like toilet paper at the beginning of Covid. Anyhow, he said he was told it could be three days to a week before the power came back and my heart SANK. I don’t handle this stuff well, never have, and it affects my mental health really badly. I didn’t know if I could last that long. No phone, no tv, no internet, no water, no nothing. I got pretty depressed fast. We finally found one place that was open and ate there.
And fucking WALMART of all places was closed. It wasn’t because they didn’t have power, because they somehow got it back pretty quickly. Know why? LOOTERS. Stupid motherfuckers gotta ruin it for everyone else. People are actual trash. Boo.
Anyhow, I was feeling repulsive, my hair was so oily and I just felt grimy. We got home and the neighbors told us the water came back on. Omg. I wanted to jump in the shower immediately. Come to find out it was actually shutting off again and I had to take a whole ass shower with literally drops of water. It was difficult and tired me out completely. Mom took me home to get some things because I was going to spend the night over there again and….my power was back on! I almost screamed. No water though. It’s fucking miraculous because most of town is still without electricity and we don’t have any idea when the water will come back. Apparently the pumps are UNDER WATER.
Oscar was really happy to see me though!
They’re classing this storm as a catastrophe. I haven’t seen a worse hurricane since 1989, Hurricane Hugo, and it was a blip compared to this. Also trees fell on 3 of my parents neighbors houses. I didn’t get a pic of that for some reason but it did huge amounts of damage. I’m glad they were spared that.
