It was a HOT, dark, rainy night...

I'm writing this blog on laptop battery power with candlelight in the background. It's a HOT (well warm) dark, rainy night in Maryland, and I have no electricity. We lost power sometime today - and I am not expecting it back super soon. Maybe in the next day or two - hopefully not longer than that... But in the meantime - I'm sitting here in my dark apartment. All windows are open - hoping to increase air circulation - it is currently 69 degrees with 88% humidity.

I realized that we didn't really have food we could eat without heating it up, and I was out of the big sized batteries as well - so we ventured out into the bad traffic to scourge up supplies. We finally found a Giant off the beaten path that was open. Actually - it didn't have power - but was running off it's generator. Most of the store was pretty dark - but there was enough light to sorta see what you were doing. We got our flashlights and batteries, some bread, bananas, cereal - and headed on.

Oh - shout out to Sprint! My cell phone was running very low on batteries - and so we stopped by the Sprint store to buy a car charger. They don't SELL car chargers for my phone. (RRRrrr). However, they did let me leave my phone there for about an hour and let it charge up! So - if you try to call me, and I don't answer (MOM) it is probably because I am trying to reserve my batteries! If Max and I still don't have power tomorrow we'll hike up to a friend's house and charge my phone and recharge my laptop...

Watching that storm, though - that was the craziest thing I have ever seen! Wow.

I got out my 72 hours kits that I put together 3 years ago... Oh - I am so embarrassed at how pathetic they are. My new goal will be to work on them. Especially since right this minute- we live on the 3rd floor - and if there WAS another tornado tonight - me and Max would have to leave - and right now - I don't even have anything put together...