Here I am. We just got power back today at 15:19. We did have broadband—although the signal was weak—but I didn’t have enough power on my laptop to compose a reasonable post. As you might imagine, everyone we know in the world was texting asking how we were so I was doing my best to conserve my phone battery. The weather people are saying this is the worst hurricane in the Tampa area in a hundred years.
The good news is that the bunker survived without any damage. There was plenty of tree branches all over the area but no downed trees in our immediate area, although there were some trees down fairly close to the bunker. Lots of people in the Tampa area did suffer significant damage but most of that was storm surge.
Tomorrow Irreal will continue its quest for world domination. The minions and I are hoping that we’ve seen the last of significant hurricane events for the year. Two in two weeks are more than enough.
UPDATE : buffer → bunker (thanks to Michael Ashley for the heads up)