It was incredibly devasting!

We were outside at our carport at the beginning checking it out. Our group yelled holy shit as we watched people's roofs and pink insulation fly above. Then suddenly, a carport roof landed and rapped itself to my metal upside patio table, which slammed against the carport for hours!

We tried to walk out onto the street, but we got slammed by cold salt water.

My neighbor and I witness a home lose its roof and fall to pieces. It imploded! Ken and I tried to save the man's big-screen TV, but we were pelted by debris going at least 50 miles an hour. I went inside after that one.

The men were getting drunk, yelling at the storm gods as homes fell apart around us. That was the front end of the storm, then the eye came (insert scary music). I was yelling get in the house, goobers! I was desperately closing windows when it came through.

Holy moly, it came through so strong we couldn't see the house next door, and you could feel the walls shaking. At the time, your trying to get hold of God, but his line was busy answering other requests.

Trees snapped in half, and power lines went down left and right.

We no longer had any means of communication.

The water was off. Thank god I made Lee gets 5-gallon buckets of water out of the pool to flush the toilets. It was disgusting! Irma, the water was on but not Ian for days! When they got the water back on, you had to boil it. You could shower, but don't swallow the water! What the hell.

If you have been reading the blog, I kept saying, Be prepared! We were with gas, solar generators, and propane. Two weeks without electricity, close to a month without cable and cell phone. We had rabbit ears for the TV and a hand crank radio.

Now comes the good part, America came through! We are so grateful to everyone who traveled to help us. They provided food, water, essentials, and gas for generators.

Even corporate stepped up. @walmart, @tyson, @elonmusk, @jimmiejohns, @redcross, and others.

Thank you, thank you, god bless America and the best governor on the planet, @RonDeSantis. Our barrier islands lost bridges, and this hero made them to within a week to Pine Island and to Sanibel within two weeks. We are coming back! #southwestfloridastrong

Our hearts are with the families who lost loved ones.

Love JD, and thanks for asking. 💋🤟🏻

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I’m not happy.  However I can think of four reasons this morning:

1. I drank milk with my breakfast without thinking and that has a lot of carbs- thus screwing up my carb count.  (Realized I messed up afterwards.)

2. I didn’t have dinner until 9:45 last night and even though it was an Unwich from Jimmy Johns I know if I eat past eight my body takes a while to digest the food verses handle my body.  (Unwiches are yummy and keto approved.)

3. I slept like crap because I didn’t get back from grocery shopping until 11:30, didn’t get to bed until 1:30am and my baby ginger was up until 3:00am till 3:45 and my toddler ginger woke up at 7:30.

4. Constipation.

I worked out yesterday for almost an hour so I know I burned carbs and calories... but now that I look at this it was probably my sleep schedule/going over carbs that didn’t help me.

BUT!  This is a new day with new lessons and this time I’m eating elli yogurt that’s 5 carbs and coffee with heavy whipping cream in it.  I have a feeling that since I have stocked groceries I will be good.