Hawaii is too hot and they still get the sea snakes so I couldn't go chill at the beaches. heck Georgia is too hot lol, bit Ireland could be an option, too bad I'm one generation shy of just waltzing in and making my return to the old country. 4th gen Irish American the my only openly welcome 3rd gen. If only my folks had thought to move there when I was a kid rather than icky Georgia. But one day (like one day after I bury the DH) I'll make it there and find out how long they'll let me hide from the snakes 😝

As 3rd generation Irish armed with my Grandfather's birth certificate was going to adopt there but got pregnant with twins! Visiting Ireland still on my bucket list. No snakes is just icing on the cake!!!

Starznight, how are doing with Irma in your neighborhood?

My house is fine, as are the neighbors and my folks and aunt and uncle did fine too. No power or potable water for me, folks got power last night and my aunt and uncle had water from a well along with a generator but they also got power last night, so the DH is heading out now to borrow theirs. Not a lot of damage as far as structures go, a few business lost parts of their roofs, but nothing flattened, there's quite a bit of flooding and many many many trees down on power lines and even a few vehicles and homes, but we all survived it seems thus far. We run on ga power that covers the whole state and as of 11 am there was still 775,000 power outages but that is down from last nights update of 934,000 so their crew of 5,500 field worker are being quite the busy bees right now and after okeefenokee power finishes getting their customers up and running they'll be giving GA Power a hand.

Other than that though my house and the street I'm on looks like nothing more than a typical afternoon thunderstorm, next street over looks like someone bombed the place (poorly though since they missed the houses but caught all the trees). But st Mary's is a royal mess, again most houses were spared, but lots of flooding and trees are down everywhere, boats sunk and stranded on land it's horrible there will be a long time getting it cleaned up

Glad Irma didn't get you too bad. Many people don't realize just how far inland a powerful hurricane can wreak havoc. I lived 3 1/2 hours NW from New Orleans when Katrina hit there. We were without power for 5 days due to wind taking down power lines.

Ugh, flooding in an area that already has snakes! And did you know that ants will float in big piles?

Yeah nothing like coming across the float of fire ants when waters rise . We're still without water or power here, but my aunt has both so we went out there for a shower last night... better than her just having water she also has a water softener that I can't convince my DH to get me so it was an Awesome shower that let me get really really squeaky clean. But no ac last night with the rising humidity was a little crappy but honestly not too bad since the hurricane did bring cooler weather. But still just sitting around waiting for power

Woohoo! Although my aunt can't help sew because of her arm but she's letting us bring the machines over to sew at her place so progress can resume on the quilts while I continue to wait for power at my house ( and of course the ac and swimming pool there along with flushing toilets is another nice bonus )