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Originally Posted by Velvet
I hope OBB sees this.
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I'm doing a load of laundry right now. Got 4 days worth of clothes, water, roll of TP, ziplock baggies, baby wipes, a first aid kit, charged old cell phone I can use to power my mini-fan, charged tablet, current phone, and laptop, and pillows sitting on top of the inserts for our dining room table on the floor of the master bedroom walk-in closet. Litter box is right outside the closet door in the sink area of the bathroom.
Why? Not because of hurricanes - I've lived through many hurricanes and Nor'easters, living in New England for most of my life. No - but because of tornadoes.
I'm confident our house will be relatively unscathed by the gusts of the hurricane. But a tornado whipping through the neighborhood could easily rip the roof off our house and send someone's golf cart through our lanai into the living room.
So that's what I'm prepping for. It'll take me all of 10 minutes to UNpack all this stuff if we don't get a tornado. It took me an hour to gather it all and make the closet floor "sleepable" for me, hubby, and cat.
---edited to add: at the moment, we have all our windows open, the lanai sliders open, and there's a glorious breeze blowing throughout the house. It's raining, but we have those slatted shutter awnings that keep the rain from blowing into the house (mostly). We'll shut everything down soon but this is the first time in three months it's been cool enough to open a window. I want to take advantage of it while I can.