All the best to you and I am really glad that it wasn't more serious for you. We don't really get such extreme weather in our neck of the woods but way back in '99 something called La Grande Tempete came through here in the middle of the night. We slept through it but when I walked round in the morning there was a giant ok tree that had been uprooted just at the back of the house. I was due to start work in the new job the next day and had been given my journey information for the whole week. No way, every single road out of the village was blocked by fallen trees and I spent the next week with 3 other drivers in a small van and a chainsaw each, clearing the roads. Lots of other people were doing the same, only those that worked within a 5 km radius could get to work anyway.
Took several weeks to finally complete the task and the commune gave a free communal meal for all those that helped. Not for me though, just volunteers, I was being paid so didn't qualify. Just pleased to have escaped so lightly though.
Generally the official services couldn't cope, no electricity and no water for a very long time, but my wife and I decided to treat ourselves (with the dog) to dinner bed and breakfast in a nice hotel in the nearest city, 50 kms away. I noticed lots of little blue and white vans scattered about the parking area and then, at dinner time, lots of English voices at the other tables. A closer inspection of the little vans showed the words Eastern Electricity Board and they were all right hand drive. Fancy there you are in your little van doing what leccy workers do and home each night for dinner, then being dragged over a thousand kilometres to help out in a foreign country. I bet they loved it.
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On top of all this weather issues, my daughter-in-law messaged us from the ER last night. My son started getting severe pain in his upper abdomen. Turns out he has a severe infection in his gallbladder and will most likely have to go under the knife to have it removed.
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It never rains but it pours, as they say in England, but also in view of your latest news, Bon Courage as we say in France at such times
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The view from my deck before I started cleanup.
The back yard
My road both directions
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Sorry you’re having to deal with that buddy, I turned 40 this year, have spent my whole life in FL, hurricanes, and all of the other factors Florida has dealt with in the last few years, has me ready to check out. Hopefully you find normalcy sooner than later.
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