Having my power go out during a thunderstorm made me realize that I really am not ready for hurricane season. Number one, I have tons of flashlights and I know this to be a fact, but when the lights went out I was not able to find one. Over the years, since Hurricane Charlie I have be prone to purchase flashlights when I see them on sale or clearance. My reasoning was you can never have enough flashlights, but when the lights went out in my house I was not able to find one flashlight.

Then there is the important thing like having available drinking water. I had relied on the water that came dispensed from the door of my refrigerator for years, but when there is no electricity there is no flowing water from the refrigerator. Even with if there was water coming from the fridge it might now be safe to drink after a hurricane. There have been numerous times in the past where residents of certain areas have had to boil their drinking water, but with no power this is cannot be done. Now I have to go stock-up on my gallons of water and other supplies.

I think that a few fairly quiet hurricane seasons have gotten me complacent once again. But these crazy thunderstorms that knocked out my power are the Braxton-Hicks contractions that are there to prepare me for the real labor of a hurricane.

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