We have somehow managed to dodge the storms. Gustov went to the west of us, Hannah went to the East of us and Ike had his eye (no pun intended) directly on us for a few days. As of right now it looks like he may have changed his mind and is headed for Texas. Whew. These storms are a pain in the neck. Every time one of them shows up we have to monitor the weather and determine whether we need to put up shutters or not. It is a big job getting those shutters up and then you have to take them back down again. Below are pictures of our house when we put them up for Fay. That storm hit below us and we just got lots and lots of rain and some wind. We ended up not really needing the shutters but you never know exactly where it will actually hit. You have to be ready ahead of time. When Charley hit here on 2004 our sliding glass were shaking so bad we thought they were going to blow out. It was scary. We did not have shutters up because it was not “supposed “to hit here. Ooops! somebody forgot to give Charley that bit if information. After being scared out of our wits we decided that we were not going to go through that again. We will shutter up!!
We didn’t forget to put one up, We put a few clear shutters up to let some light in so it is not pitch dark in the house.
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