Cyclone Wilma

I've alive, I'm alive, I'm so alive.....

After much anticipation, Cyclone Wilma came and went. We first heard of this storm on Wednesday this past week. At that point, it was supposed to arrive Thursday evening. Thursday came and went. It was then supposed to arrive Friday and so forth and so forth until finally it came last night while we were sleeping. On Thursday it was called tropical depression 06F, yet it arrived in American Samoa as Cyclone Wilma.

It brought lots of rain, but it is rainy season here so it doesnt seem that much out of the ordinary. It did bring, however, some pretty big wind gusts which uprooted some trees, blew over our sturdy roadside billboards and it sent palm fronds into the streets. And we did lose our power. Our landlord told us this morning that the power went out around 5:30am and it did not come back on until almost 3:30pm. (But I was at McDonalds watching football, so it really was just like any other weekend.)

But I wasn't scared. As Jessica, Erin, Caitlin, Nancy and Bette Midler can attest, we've been through some pretty exciting hurricanes in Florida......