Your new Coach: a mini-reveal thread!
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So sorry you and your family are going through that. My thoughts are with your family and everyone else effected by this tragedy. I hope you can let us know how things are going. I'm happy to hear you are taking such good care of the pets as well, many are often forgotten during hurricanes.
Am familiar with Sugar Land. Hope you too get a break in the rainfall.
Again, I so appreciate the info you posted and I passed it on. But, they decided to shelter in place and hope for the best. They moved valuables and needed supplies upstairs and unplugged everything downstairs from the wall sockets. The kids didn't want to leave the cats even tho they would have fared well with a couple of clean litter boxes and multiple water and food bowls. The dogs, not so much. So to keep the stress level down, they decided to stay.
I know I won't sleep a wink tonight. I'm praying hard water doesn't get in their lower level. They're not in a flood plain and therefore don't have flood insurance and I'm not sure how regular homeowners insurance handles acts of God. They don't have a lot of disposable income.
Thanks to others who responded also. I'm sorry I didn't make note of your ID's and multi-quoting is not cooperating for me.
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Prayers for your family. What a tragedy. I can't imagine what it would be like to have to leave your home behind and worry about your precious pets in the meantime. There are a few organizations right now taking donations to help out with animal rescue in the flooded areas if any of you are interested in donating. Ones I can think of off the top of my head are Greater Good, Alley Cat Allies, and the Humane Society.
The 70,s was my era my friends drooled over Donny osmond or David Cassidy and the bay city rollers yuk!! I found Elvis when I was 3 and no one has ever come close since and never willIf memory serves, you're in the UK? If you want to talk about great countries and decades for fashion you can't do any better than Britain in the Swingin' Sixties. We got the watered-down versions of Mary Quant and Carnaby Street fashions in the US, and almost everyone used Yardley's London Look makeup and nail "varnish" (Twiggy eyes and white lipstick!) but I would have sold my soul to have been living in London during that time instead of Chicago. What an amazing time and place for fashion as well as music.
I still don't know how to multi quote but thanks to everyone and I hope those who have friends/family also in the affected areas are safe and dry this morning.
I'm happy to say my daughters home and vehicles are dry. Divine intervention, lots of prayers and good thoughts and a little help from Mother Nature...one or all I'm so happy. The water was literally an inch within invading their home and my daughter said it was like a miracle. Suddenly, the rains slacked somewhat and slowly the water at her doors began to recede. She was very emotional relating all that to me in the early morning hours. So was I.
Good thing is that while it's still raining, it's not as intense as the past days and her cul de sac has slowly drained too.
Last night was very hard as they watched their neighbors evacuating on foot, pushing kids and animals on rafts and inflatable baby pool, adults carrying suitcases with what they needed while at the shelters. She said it was like being on a ship and watching everyone go except her. But she felt in her heart they'd made the best decision for their family and I had to support that despite what I felt or thought.
She ventured out with the kids today hoping to buy a cake mix and birthday cards for her oldest...today is Paige's 17th birthday. Most roads were passable and bayous/retention pond levels receding as well. But her Kroger was apparently operating on a skeleton staff and only letting in 15 shoppers at a time and the line was long and the wait more than an hour so they left. But the housebound kids enjoyed getting out of the house.
So, thanks again, for all the support. I am grateful. I'm still praying for the rains to let up and a little sunshine tomorrow. Everyone be safe.
I'm happy to say my daughters home and vehicles are dry. Divine intervention, lots of prayers and good thoughts and a little help from Mother Nature...one or all I'm so happy. The water was literally an inch within invading their home and my daughter said it was like a miracle. Suddenly, the rains slacked somewhat and slowly the water at her doors began to recede. She was very emotional relating all that to me in the early morning hours. So was I.
Good thing is that while it's still raining, it's not as intense as the past days and her cul de sac has slowly drained too.
Last night was very hard as they watched their neighbors evacuating on foot, pushing kids and animals on rafts and inflatable baby pool, adults carrying suitcases with what they needed while at the shelters. She said it was like being on a ship and watching everyone go except her. But she felt in her heart they'd made the best decision for their family and I had to support that despite what I felt or thought.
She ventured out with the kids today hoping to buy a cake mix and birthday cards for her oldest...today is Paige's 17th birthday. Most roads were passable and bayous/retention pond levels receding as well. But her Kroger was apparently operating on a skeleton staff and only letting in 15 shoppers at a time and the line was long and the wait more than an hour so they left. But the housebound kids enjoyed getting out of the house.
So, thanks again, for all the support. I am grateful. I'm still praying for the rains to let up and a little sunshine tomorrow. Everyone be safe.