couldn’t wait to go and shave her legs. When we got done eating Mia
told Sam to come with her and she would give hear what she needed. Paul and I were
heading to the office to make sure we got everything set for on the morning to go to
the hardware store. On are way there it started to thunder and lightning out. It didn’t
take long for everyone to come running back in, the rain was really coming down. I
said to Paul that I sure hopes it stops by morning, I would really hate to go out in this
and try to get the supplies.
Paul said that if it’s still raining like this in the morning, we can put it off for another
day.
We were making our rounds, checking to make sure everything was good and safe.
The wind started to pick up it was slamming the rain hard on to the side of the
building. I was glad that we had no trees any were near the fences or any of the
buildings. I was telling Paul that the garden should be grow really good with all this
rain coming down. Everyone that are living out in the campers were coming in to the
school. They said that the wind was blowing so hard that the campers were rocking
back and forth. We told them to stay inside the school until the wind calms down. The
wind was blowing so hard that it started to make the windows shake.
We were walking up the stairs when we heard glass braking. We ran to where we
heard it, the windows in the school lab broke from the wind blowing so hard. We
covered the windows in plastic to keep the rain out. Sabrina came down the hall
telling everyone that dinner was done. Paul stopped her and asked what for dinner?
She replied left over pizza from lunch.
We headed back down, to get dinner. We were going to head to the office after that, to
go over our plans for tomorrow. We were in the lunch room when we heard everyone
talking about the storm. They were all getting worried. I got up on the table and told
everyone that we are going to be fine. The storm should be letting up soon. But for
any one that lives out there in the campers if you would like you all can stay in the
school tonight, but you all will have to bunk down here in the dining hall.
By the time we all headed to bed that night, the wind was not blowing so hard the rain
was down to a drizzle.
The next morning the storm was gone and it look like everything was normal again.
I got up and got around so we could go to the hardware store. My boys, Paul and his
men were all waiting on me. I told them let me grab my morning coffee and we will
head out. I told Mia that we were leaving to hold down the home front.
She replied I will and you be careful, I love you.
I told her that I love her to and that I will be back.
We all got in to the trucks Willie and Bryan got in to the semi that had the tanker on it.
We knew where we could get an empty trailer to put on it.
It did not take us long, but we got there. The storm we had last night knocked down a
lot of trees.
Paul told me that he was glad that we were getting what we could from the hardware
store.
We pulled into the parking lot and Paul drove around the store, he said that he wanted
to make sure that all doors were still closed. I had Willie and Bryan drive around
behind the W-mart to get an empty trainer. Paul told his men you know what to do,
now move it.
The rest of us were at the front of store, I got the doors open with my handy dandy
crow bar. We moved in slowly. It was a lot darker in here then the W-mart there is no
sky light in this place. Paul told me that he has a plan for this. He had two men head
back out to the truck to bring in their generator and lights. They hooked it all up at
the front of the store but it did not light up the store to good. We could only see about
half of everything. I asked Paul what if we find a few more generator’s and hook them
up, and they got to have shop light in here some place? He had one of his men go
back out to the truck to bring in two of the gas cans. He said that we were going to
need fuel to
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