We got VERY lucky and just had the skinny bit of the line of storms come over our place.

There was some heavy rain, but not a lot, and one rather scary sustained wind gust that had me sending Lily to the basement with my brother (with me ready to follow,) but other than that, OK here. Power, cable and internet all held. County as a whole has around 15K with no power.

We’re checking with local friends to see if anyone needs ice, cause we might have a cooler with 40# in it…

Did I completely panic and probably overreact when I heard the word “derecho” this morning? Absolutely. Do I regret anything I did to get ready today? Nope.

But damn, that was super fucking stressful waiting for it to show up, then wondering how bad it would get, and constantly watching the radar to figure out if it was done. When we had the derecho, I don’t think anyone realized it would be *that* bad ahead of time, so no pre-storm stress.

Definitely gonna be looking into one of those generators.