A loud night

Last night was not a very restful one.  After waking up with a full bladder at 3AM I rolled around a bit until I fell back asleep, briefly.  I was awakened a half hour later by a bright flash followed by particularly ferocious sounding thunder.  It was the beginning of a hellacious storm that included moments of dump a bucket on your roof rain.  I could feel Elsa shaking in fear on the bed so I pulled the bed spread over her body to help her feel safe.  Cindy later got up and got Elsa’s sweater and put it on her.  The combo of our efforts seemed to help her and thankfully the storm eventually passed by.  I awoke this morning feeling like shit, as one would expect.

I saw some of the footage from Hurricane Michael.  It brought back the memories of our experience last year with Irma although the winds with Michael were maybe 20mph higher at the top end.  I know the type of slog those people are in for in the months to come and it will suck, badly.  Hopefully they get power restored in a timely fashion but man, that is going to be a tough job based on what I saw.  With the accelerating pace of global warming we can expect this to be a more and more frequent occurrence.