Fine, fine.

I suppose Laura isn't the only one more interested in the hurricane than my drama. I actually would be more interested in the hurricane than my drama...If the hurricane created MORE drama than my daily life.

ANYWAY. Here's the scoop:

Wednesday night, Dianna, Mia and I drove down to Greensboro, NC. We stayed at a Ramada...Good times. We watching the Weather Channel and CNN keeping an eye on the storm and the havoc it was stirring up. We slept, we shopped, we hung out with her mom. It was a good time.

Friday, we drove home and had to take Route 58 through Suffolk (Ohioans, think Lorain Co.). There were trees crushing houses, roofs missing from buildings and waters higher than they were on the way TO Greensboro. We stopped in traffic for 45 minutes and waited our turn to drive slowly off the highway onto the shoulder away from the flood.

In Hampton Roads: We lost our Virginia Beach fishing pier. The Ramada on the oceanfront had damage to most, if not all, of its rooms. We lost power for 5 days at our house, and actually, some people still haven't gotten theirs back. Shawn just got his power back last night, hehehehe. Some schools in Virginia Beach still haven't resumed classes. Those poor kids are going to have to make up for the missed school sometime. Suckers.

I drove to Hampton tonight to pick Mia up from Sheila's and they got hit pretty bad. There are still trees all over the place, power lines holding them off the ground, in some places.

The midtown tunnel in Portsmouth is under water now. Apparently the flood gates were welded shut (geniuses). There really hasn't been any sort of update as to when that will reopen. They can't exactly survey the damage in wetsuits.

North Carolina got hit pretty bad, too. There's a "New Hatteras" in town.

I heard on the radio that with the way the weather has been over the past few years, hurricanes are just going to keep getting stronger and more devastating. Next time we'll have a generator...But power's not really very helpful without a house.