And Now We Wait...

This storm is going to be a doozy if it holds up to predictions.  This is the latest from NWS Jackson.  

My county is smack dab in the dark purple.  Of course that was all we talked about at work this morning, asking each other if we were ready.  One of my coworkers said, "We're as ready as we're going to be.  All we have left to do is last minute panicking."  

And that's exactly what I did when I got home.  OK, not so much panicking, but finishing up with storm prep.  There really wasn't much left to do.  The first thing I did was to move a small pile of wood closer to the back door just for the sake of convenience.  

Her majesty the queen inspected my work and found it satisfactory.  I also finished filling up this little spot beside my rack, so no matter how much it rains, I will have dry wood. 

After tearing up my shed, I found my roll of visqueen and covered the rest of the wood pile, 

 along with the one near the back door.  That ought to keep it dry enough to burn.  

Once that was done, I came inside for a quick bite of lunch and a couple episodes of About Face after which, I tackled my freezers.  Not literally, I just mean I got them sorted.  I took as much from my small freezer as I could and put it into the deep freeze, only leaving enough in the small freezer that I could eat up in a few days and that would be OK if it thawed.  In the deep freeze, I put the meat and fish on the bottom, then put the snake food on top of that, and the cookies and candy on the top, then covered it all with as many containers filled with water as I could fit.  Hopefully, that'll keep it all frozen in case the power goes out. 

Or when the power goes out, I should say.  

My last bit of prep was --since I never did find the bathtub stopper-- after I took my shower, I filled up a few buckets with water to flush with.  Even if it doesn't end up being necessary, it's better to have it on hand.  The water company already has their emergency generators ready to go, so as long as the pipes don't freeze, we'll be good.  

And everything is charged, and the car is full of gas.  Not that I'm going to be going anywhere, but I might need to crank it up to charge my phone a time or two.  Oh, and one thing people don't think about -- dim the brightness on your screens.  It really saves your battery.  

That's about all the storm prep I can do, so now we wait...

Can you believe it?  Cody texted me to make sure I was all ready for the storm.  I wasn't expecting that.  

They've upped the timeline again.  Now they're saying the freezing rain is supposed to get here around 11:00 or 12:00 tonight.  I'm going to top up the indoor wood box before I go to bed tonight, and....maybe cast on a new knitting project.  

Can you believe I've been so caught up with this storm that I haven't knit anything all week?  

I know I've probably bored you all to tears chuntering on about storm prep, but they're saying this will be one we remember for years to come.  

Those are usually the kind we'd rather forget.