Post Storm update

 Well damn my week didn't pan out the way I thought it would.  Saturday/Sunday around midnight a derecho blew through and fucked my world.  I was asleep and my mom called to make sure we were awake.  I sat on the far side of the couch with a blanket over me in case the window blew out.  We got lucky in that respect.  The power went during the storm.  When I let the dogs out but walked out with them just in case.  There was shingles all over my hard and the back part of my fence was smashed by a tree.  I have, or had rather, a privacy fence and the neighbors have a chain link.  The tree grew up between the fence.  The huge tree in the front of my house was fine, thankfully.  When Dennis got up I my spidey sense went off and I knew he was going to be a douche canoe.  Sure enough he blew up and left.  I sat in my house without power for 2 nights before he pulled his head out of his ass and brought the generator.  In the meantime I had the tree removed and I wish I would have him put up a temp fence but I didn't.  Now I have to help Dennis put it up and we DO NOT work well together.  

This is what is left of my fence.  My roof didn't fare much better but it isn't leaking into the house.  I am hoping that after all these years of working with FEMA I can finally cash in on all that knowledge.  

My plan for Monday was going to the head spa.  They called and said they had to cancel because they had no power.  I was so freaking disappointed but 100 % expected it.   My mom had her power back by that afternoon.  I want to rebook at the spa before I get my extensions put back in, but right now I have spent so much because of the stupid storm.  

Tuesday I was supposed to get my nails done but she didn't have power either.  I had a mini breakdown Wednesday morning and from what I have heard from other people that was the point we all started to become unhinged.  

So I did very little on my week off.  I cleaned up the yard and bought myself a mini-chainsaw to clean up some other brush in my yard to take advantage of the greenwaste pick up they are going to do.  

Because I have to go outside with the dogs I caught the guy that lives behind me throwing downed branches over the 6 foot privacy fence.  I was pissed.  I walked to the fence and told him as I threw the branch back that the branch the tree came off of wasn't mine and the city is going to do curbside debris clean-up.  As I was walking back to the deck he leaned over the fence to say something, not sure what, because Bailey went apeshit.  He jumped up high enough to bite the shit out of the guy behind me.  It drew blood.  Now I am really nervous about the fence being down.  I am still a little nervous that the guy will animal control or whatever and get him on some kind of list.  Not sure if that is even a thing.  It's so strange because he has been socialized from day one and I'm not sure where this comes from.  At any rate, this is the second time he has bitten someone

When the power first went out we were told the power would be back on by 5 on Friday and that seemed like a lifetime.  Sure enough, power came back on about 3:30 Friday.  I literally cried tears of joy.  This is the first time I have been without power for this long in the summer.  We had a major ice storm about 10 years ago and staying warm is a whole lot easier than trying to get cool.

I have gotten several pictures of Frankie cat from her new family and she appears to be settling in well.  I got a picture of her and their little girl and she looks so happy.  

Now I'm just wasting time because today is the day I am cleaning the fridge and freezer because trash comes tomorrow.  I haven't opened either of them yet and I'm a little scared to see what grew in there.