I'm an evacuee again! This is getting ridiculous!

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10. It really gets tiresome, doesn't it?

My husband and I have not had to evacuate, but even living a good distance from the coast we have been badly affected by hurricane a number of times. The worst years were 2016 with Hurricane Hermine, 2017 with the remnants of Hurricane Irma, and 2018 with Hurricane Michael. Three years in a row were just far too much!

Even though Hermine was the only one to directly hit our area, that was three years in a row with power out in the entire area for days and days. I was lucky - friends lent us their generator and we had one room with a window AC, and kept our refrigerator and freezer cold.

But we are too old for that - just last week we got our whole house generator set up. We'll have a short interruption in power, then it will kick in and let us stay comfortable. We will still have to turn off extra stuff, and maybe turn up the thermostat on the AC, but we won't have to pull out our hurricane lamps like we did for the week of no power after Hurricane Kate in 1985.