I find it ironic that over the weekend I had set up a series of posts for our home tour. We found ourselves on Thursday getting ready to evacuate for Irene and preparing to not have a home to come back to. This is the first hurricane I've been in. We decided to get up early and leave by 630am Friday morning to get out of town before any major traffic.
It's a really weird feeling picking and choosing what things are important enough to keep in case we were to lose everything. We got all of our important documents together: Social Security cards, Passports, Marriage License, College degree, cash, etc and then packed what would be difficult to restore. We brought our computers and wedding pictures, my year's worth of contact supply and basically packed a few weeks worth of clothes. We unplugged as much as we could and tried to put items up high in case we had major flood damage.
But to be really honest, it was almost a freeing feeling. A feeling of letting go of all our "stuff." A peace of mind that if we didn't have a house to come back to, we'd be okay. It made me realize that of out of everything we own, we could have let it all go (other than what was in our car). We've learned over time that it's best to prepare ourselves emotionally for the worst. Everything else seems minor after that.
We had such a great weekend and great weather. We stayed with my parents almost 7 hours from us and got to visit friends we haven't seen since our wedding. We made it home safely around 9 on Sunday night and only had some minor damage to our house and yard.
But for those that were strongly affected by the hurricane, we continue to pray for their peace of mind in all this.
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