Hurricane Dorian

11 Sep 2019

It's now been almost a week since Hurricane Dorian's visited South Carolina. My family had no problems but many others did. There were widespread power outages, trees falling on houses…

Cypress Gardens Re-Opening and Ribbon Cutting

16 Apr 2019

Cypress Gardens is opened again after almost three years. It was severely damaged from the flood in 2015, all of the buildings had 1-4 inches of water. Cleaning up the…

Hurricane Florence Preparedness

9 Sep 201816 Sep 2018

I found this useful article from the Organic Prepper about Hurricane Preparedness. Its talks about how to prepare, when you need to start, and how the track is forecast, etc.…

Happy New Year 2018

1 Jan 201831 Dec 2017

Today is the first day of the New Year, 2018 is here!!! A toast to all things to come. Good bye 2017, hello 2018. Some things that I need to…

Thanksgiving Day After

24 Nov 2017

We had a good day yesterday. Instead of having the Thanksgiving meal at our house, we went to a friends that invites anyone without family near to an Orphan Thanksgiving…

Irma cleanup

13 Sep 201719 Aug 2018

We are cleaning up from Irma still. Not much damage but lots of water. Some people weren't so lucky though, even some deaths. Downtown Charleston and most coastal areas had…

Hurricane Irma

8 Sep 2017

Sorry no time for blogging, preparing for a hurricane. Looking at the track, it shouldn't be so bad but it all depends what happens in the next two days. We've…

Hurricane Preparedness

6 Sep 201710 Dec 2017

My family is mostly prepared, but not very organized. We have food, water, flashlights, etc. One thing we need to work on is getting a generator, we'll have to save…

Total Solar Eclipse

21 Aug 201710 Dec 2017

In the past many cultures have had various superstitions about eclipses, including "the End of the World". Here is a good link to further information. Excerpt: Myths and Superstitions Around…