Hurricanes and Halloween

I know I just posted something, but this one isn’t really about school.

It’s about Sandy.

Sure I go to school here in Florida but I’m a Jersey Girl all the way. My whole family is there - okay not everyone but 95% of the family I see regularly is.

Anyway you all must have heard about the storm. It was very bad for Jersey and New York, though I think we go it worst.

The City That Never Sleeps had it's lights shut off for them by Sandy.

Let me start by saying that my family is fine. Everyone is safe. They all lost power but my parents go it back today after it being off for 2.5 days. (Which is really good since we don’t have water without it thanks to our well system). Last I heard neither of my grandparent’s houses had power. My Dad’s parents - last I knew - had gone to the hospital since the generator broke and my Grandpa’s oxygen battery was dead (he’s been on oxygen since September after he had a stroke).

For anyone that doesn’t know Atlantic City is basically gone. Okay, not really, but the boardwalk is. To think that we live only 20 minutes from there is crazy.

Atlantic City Boardwalk or what's left of it.

Our main concern is Long Beach Island (LBI) since my family has a house there. Biased on pictures and videos we have come across it was bad - for a while the ground was gone. There was a clip we found of part of the island after the storm passed and our house happened to be seen in it. It was only a glimpse but the house is still standing with no major visible damage. Hopefully it was only the garage that flooded and it didn’t get up to the actual living areas but we won’t know for sure until they let us back onto the island.

The one thing that annoys me is the way people here are talking. Most are from Florida so are saying that we’re worrying over nothing, it was just a baby hurricane, it’s no big deal. I really wanted to hit them.

Get this straight Florida. We in the north weren’t built to stand against hurricanes. Some rain and wind is okay but this is not what we signed up for, not what we built our houses to battle. So SHUT IT!

Yeah, my rant about Sandy and I wasn’t even there. It did distract me in classes though to the point that my teachers noticed...

Anyway, it’s Halloween but it’s the only holiday I don’t really care for. Every other one I love and plan way in advanced but this day is nothing special in my eyes. That might change after I have kids but for now that is where I stand.

So in exchange I sat at the table doing Fine Arts homework. I got my armadillo and air plane done while watching Halloween movies: Hocus Pocus, HalloweenTown, The Littlest Vampire, Mickey’s House of Villains, and Tower of Terror. 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!