Weather

So we get a lot of flash flood warnings here... I mean a lot. Because it doesn't rain here... it pours. Well maybe 3 weeks ago its about 1 am and our phones go off. It was another weather notifaction. Nick and I both wake up and read the alert expecting it to be yet another flash flooding warning. Nope. Tornado warning. Well we figured there wasn't much we could do at this point. We are in a small apartment. If we need to we can go the bathtub and thats about it. So we go back to bed. It was hard to sleep because the wind was so loud. And the lightning was lighting up our bedroom with our blinds closed. I wake up the next morning and see all over my Facebook that a tornado did in fact hit and it was about 3 miles away from us. Luckily no one was hurt. But a few houses were destroyed.

Fast forward a weekish. The rain comes.... and comes... and comes. Something to know about Charleston, its below sea level. So when it rains it floods. And boy did it flood. South Carolina was in a state of emergency. And because of that Nicks classes were canceled. There were power outages. Peoples water became contaminated. There were coffins floating around. The hospital staff couldn't leave work because no one could get to work to replace them. People were using canoes and boats to get around instead of their cars. And sadly people lost their homes and people died. The rain just wouldn't stop. Rain, floods, and power outages lasted for over a week. Nick and I lucked out.We truly feel so blessed. Our apartment complex wasn't really effected. The complex next to us had to be evacuated by boat. Charleston and the rest of South Carolina is now in the processes of cleaning up. People are still in shelters and a lot of homes still don't have drinkable water. Business are destroyed. This one place in particular has been open for years. A major tourist attraction where some of The Notebook was filmed is now closed. They have no idea if and when they will open. The flood damage is just too much.  A lot of people have lost their jobs. Its just so sad. But boy do I feel blessed.

The past few weeks has taught me the importance of food storage and a 72 hour kit. Nick and I need to be better at that.

Oh just a coffin floating around

This is just the fist day of rain

Also just the first day of rain

The produce section after a week of
flooding...

Yeah they had no produce...