With the hurricane warning issued by the National Hurricane Center likely to be extended northward from the Virginia/North Carolina line, the local news is abuzz with hurricane coverage. For those who do not live on the coast, it's hard to describe the subtle tension that takes over as one watches and waits to see when and how badly your hometown area is going to perhaps get whacked. With the forecasts as they are (the image above is a 5:00AM map from NOAA), the boyfriend and I will likely be installing the flood doors and sand bagging tomorrow and then focusing on moving furniture and rugs to the second floor on Saturday. A couple of friends who live on higher ground have offered to help with the task. The photo below of the great room (you can see the tidal creek through the back windows) gives an idea of how much work we have ahead of us if we have to take the step of moving all the furniture out of the first floor. As for the cars, we'll leave my car and the convertible on the second floor of a downtown Hampton parking garage and park the Expedition up the street on relatively high ground.
Fortunately, my house in Norfolk where my daughter lives is on high ground where flooding is not a worry. While the area around the law office floods, my offices are on the second floor in a building built like a bunker, so the main worry remain the house here in Hampton.
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