Hurricane Henri made landfall as a strong tropical storm on Sunday morning and my neighborhood managed to survive the storm without losing electricity. There was little to no flooding damage on my street and the local utility company manage to get the power restored to the town by midnight on Monday. I was talking with Mayor Hedrick at work on Monday who confirmed the last point alongside Aundré Bumgardner's Twitter feed on Sunday.
I probably should've wrote this blog post around Monday as it's a retraction of the blog post I wrote on Saturday announcing a delay in posting. I feared the worst with Henri, as I did with Irene and Sandy, and I panicked over the weekend—at one point I was moving some of my most valued belongings into bags that would end up in the basement.
I'm glad I was wrong and feel fortunate that this was the case. There were a few people in Rhode Island I was worried about once I read about the sudden shift in trajectory—extended family and friends—and I'm glad to hear that they're doing okay with the utility and associated crews working tirelessly to restore electricity and clear any debris.
It goes without saying that the Twitter thread last night is a placeholder at this point—which mostly reiterates the information I mentioned above—and will be deleted by the time you're reading this.
Mentally, between my worries and work, I'm exhausted. I may take it easy for the rest of the week to recuperate. There are some ideas for future blog posts that I'd like to try out—a combined review of Axiom Verge and its sequel for one—and I ideally want to get back into the (semi) daily entries. Right now, I need to relax a little.
Hope you all are having a wonderful week!
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