Hunkering Down

With Hurricane Ike coming through the region, I found myself literally camped out at work over this past weekend. What an adventure that was - I came in to the hospital for work at 7:30 AM on Friday morning with sleeping bag and overnight bag in hand and was released to go home at 4 PM on Sunday afternoon. The hospital fared the storm with very minimal damage, never even losing power or water, though the water pressure did fall on Saturday, prompting management to forbid all employees to shower or flush the toilets (yeah right). In spite of that very minor detail, I was grateful to be there rather than anywhere else in the city throughout the storm and its aftermath. My apartment sustained minimal damage and had power when I returned on Sunday. I've been extremely blessed throughout this whole ordeal. There are so many who still don't have power or worse - they can't find or have lost family members and/or have lost all they own. Thankfully, the weather has been very mild with temperatures in the 60's, hopefully making it more bearable for those without power and AC. When I got home on Sunday my roommate had opened our windows and we were able to leave them open for a couple of days - no AC even necessary. Perfect timing.