Sorry TF, I meant to post this video. I am not sure about what you are referring to as far as the bridge but there are hundreds of pics on Google Images.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
York1I hope Kevin is weathering the storm OK. It sounds like his home with all the wind resistant construction will be OK with the wind, but the storm surge might be another story. I hope he will fill us in on how it goes.
As of the 11:00 update from the National Weather Service, we are now under a hurricane/tornado/flash flood/storm surge warning. They have issued mandatory evacuations for flood zones A & B already, as well as all island communities. We are expecting hurricane conditions in 36 hours.
The chaos is maddening. I cannot believe how few new residents has any plans at all. My plans are minimal, but they are a plan, and I know what I am going to do. So many new people here have no idea what they are going to do.
My house should be fine, I am not in a flood zone, and my house is several feet higher than most others in the neighborhood.
I went out last night at 4:00 AM and filled all the vehicles after the 24 hour gas stations got their overnight deliveries. I have plywood, roofing paper, and patch tar on hand if needed. The freezer is full of ice and the refrigerator is full of water.
We have plenty of water in buckets to flush the toilets.
Junk food is abundant in the cupboards.
I am as ready as I will be. I am not looking forward to work today.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good afternoon (one minute after 12:00), diners. I'll have a hamburger with bacon on it, Flo.
I hope Kevin is weathering the storm OK. It sounds like his home with all the wind resistant construction will be OK with the wind, but the storm surge might be another story. I hope he will fill us in on how it goes.
TF, I could dig through some photos for a shot of that bridge at Vancouver. I took quite a few photos of the bridge as our cruise passed under it on the way to Alaska. I'll look for them, although I haven't seen them in a long time.
David, glad to hear you're back and thanks for the photos. Some people get bored looking at other people's vacation photos. I'm the opposite. I love them.
My wife and I are headed out once again later this week for a session with grandkids. I'm getting worn out.
The Cimarron Valley Railroad runs for 250 miles from southwestern Kansas into Colorado. It hauls mostly grain.
This gives you an idea of the countryside in southern and western Kansas:
Have a good Tuesday, everyone.
York1 John
BATMAN
Not Bad at all, my friend! Fitbit gives an estimate too. It has me presently somewhere between 43 and 47. (Scale of 0 to 50. Zero being dead and 50 being the best, LOL) That ain't too bad for almost turning 76! (two months away)
Just got home from getting my 5th. COVID Vaccine Jab. So by next week I will be ready to get out amongst people more. One of the ladies I have been going out with is Handicapped and walks with a walker or a 4 pronged cane. She is also diabettic I think. Got a text from her while I was at my Grandaughter's Volleyball game. She is sick. Doesn't know yet whether it is COVID or the Flu, but is feeling very bad at the moment. I am a bit worried due to her several co-morbidities. Supposed to go for a hike with the other lady I am dating on Thursday. Hopefully it will be outside on the shoreline of Seneca Lake here. If weather is nasty, we will go walk at the indoor track at the College.
Fitbit says that since I got the watch (about 4 years and 4 months ago) I have now put in over 6,842 miles. At least half of that has been running (well I call it running, but really hate it when ladies 10 years older than me pass me..... ;) )
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning from the warm and sunny West Coast.
Went for my 10km scoot with the dog yesterday and was feeling sluggish and it took a lot longer than usual. Got home and it said 30c/86f on the thermometre, that'll slow an old geezer down. We were running through an area of giant sequoias and Mr. Bear was sitting behind one 5m away licking his paw. The dog and I noticed him at the same instant with both our heads turning right at the same time. We didn't miss a beat and the bear just looked at us and didn't miss a beat on the paw licking. It has been a hot summer and I need to get back into shape. I was at age 38 in May, now look at me. Still not too bad for 65.
C'mon Ed, you know you want to.
My sister is in Argentina right now judging dog shows and she is sending lots of cool photos as she has time to sightsee. It has been a long time since I was in that part of the world. It is a long plane ride that I would not look forward to at this stage of my life. Maybe a cruise down and around Cape Horn and into Antarctica would be more my speed. They have them that leave right from Vancouver. I always wanted to dive on an iceberg. I think at my age I'd have to think twice but I would sure be thinking about it.
The kid came down to watch hockey, he needed Dad time. He was telling me that he had let go three senior long-time employees that had no clue about the electronic media world, their idea of advertising was putting an ad in the paper. He replaced them with two kids ( I call them kids) from Ontario he went to University with. The next quarter revenue was up $84,000.00 a week. It looks like he may have to move out of his apartment while the water damage is being fixed. The insurance company will put them up in the Marriot just down the road. They are thinking two or three weeks. They have only lived there six months.
TF, I have been over the Lions Gate Bridge thousands of times. I use to ride my bike to work at the airport from Grouse Mountain 21km. Often I would be coming home at 3 or 4 in the morning. I had a giant light on my bike and would ride through the trails of Stanley Park in pitch black up to the bridge. Quite often I would be mid-span of the bridge just as the Sun would be coming up and I would sit on my bike leaning against the railing and re-charge my soul. Good times.
Lord Stanley gave Vancouver the park and the Hockey world the Stanley Cup.
The wife wants to go for a long walk with the dogs. When I go for a walk with my wife my Garmin does not even register it as exercise. The company is still the best though.
Good evening Diners. A pot of tea please, Chloe.
Prior to going on holiday York1 John asked me to post some pictures on my return. Unfortunately the trip on a steam train in Visby was cancelled. Not amused. Therefore here are some other pictures.
Old cannons at Oslo Castle
IMG_1278 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Bangsbo Fort, Frederikshavn, Denmark. Part of the German Atlantic Wall in WW2
IMG_2442 by David Harrison, on Flickr
IMG_2431 by David Harrison, on Flickr
IMG_2433 by David Harrison, on Flickr
IMG_2434 by David Harrison, on Flickr
IMG_2439 by David Harrison, on Flickr
IMG_2438 by David Harrison, on Flickr
IMG_2440 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Strong walking shoes were required. There are 24 of the bunkers.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Thanks for the compliments on the caboose, TF That was a fun project but I sure wouldn't want to tackle something similar at this stage of my life.
Track fiddlerMy question to you Kevin? I have wondered through the years, what do they eventually do with all those warped boards that nobody's going to buy?
At "my" Home Depot they get a splash of purple paint then tossed on the 80% off pile. I have a former coworker that is a HD employee and he gives me a heads up if anything worthwhile ends up in the "scratch & dent" section. Got a beautiful gas grill for $25 one time that was missing a $5 part. Similar grills were going for $350!
Have you had your WHEATIES today?
Zephyr Wheaties by Edmund, on Flickr
I have always liked the "hearty-grain" cereals. Never had a taste for anything named Sugar Pops, Sugar Frosted anything, or honey-dipped this or that. Trix might be for kids but not for me.
Just a shell of her former self:
Concrete Giant by 95wombat, on Flickr
Much better:
Domeliner through Verdon by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Good morning
I may get long winded as there's no pop-ups covering the whole screen this morning and doesn't seem to be other glitches.
Hi Ed. Haven't been hiding. Just got back from another one of Judy's extended weekend retreats we've been doing frequently this Summer. I'll post some pictures later if it works out as it's been becoming more difficult posting pictures with text from a phone anymore. Sometimes it works. Most times everything disappears trying to do it.
Said it before and I'll say it again. Sure do love that Caboose you built! Some fine carpentry skills displayed on that build I have to say!
I'd only hope to build a cabin like that on a lake up north some day. If it would turn out half as good as the one you built, that would be good enough for me.
I like how Wilson got involved as the construction superintendent I remember when I built my double level deck around from the sliding glass door to the porch built a couple years earlier. I had planks going around as I was installing the deck boards. Nellie was just a puppy and would follow me back and forth on the planks. Have you ever seen a springer spaniel as a puppy? There was no way I could get mad at her as she was slowing me down
Liked the cartoon of the diesel shell going over the steamer Bear. I as well don't feel it was an improvement. Besides the more pleasing cosmetics of steam locomotives, they were much easier on the atmosphere.
Thats right! Your moving into Spring while we are all moving into the Klondike Tundra with Old-Man-Winter. Hope things warm up for ya soon
The two Dave's are the lucky ones here!
Thanks for the pics & vids of your vacation Dave. I enjoyed checking out the tight curves and trestles. From the looks of it, You and the Misses sure musta had fun on your Train Excursion.
Looks like you and the better half had fun on your Holiday as well David. Oh what I wouldn't give for one of those Over-The-Pond Vacations!
Liked the Horse pictures of coarse of coarse, that you posted a while back Mr Lion, and the Saber-Toothed-Tiger.
Liked the horses more better though, as the Tiger looked angry
Ive always liked horses. When my brother and I were quite young, my Mom used to board a horse up in Champlin Minnesota before the Resort. The phillies name was Champy. My Brother and I would take turns as my Mom would put us on the saddle in front of her and give us a ride. That horse was smart. My Mom would say Trot Champy, and she always did.
I liked giving her an apple. She would always bend her neck down and put the side of her head on mine after she was finished, to say thank you. Fond Memories.
Maybe the two animals that met bridge I posted a while back was two Lions... I found the Lions Gate Bridge up in Vancouver that had two Loin statues on the front of it.
Cool Bridge and I can't figure out for the life of me how the main support swag hangers have a kink on the ends over those triangles. Seems to me, there must be a huge amount of stress at those points but apparently she stood the test of time.
I wonder if Brent could post a pic of the Lions Gate Bridge so the Kids at home can see what I'm talking about? I was thinking since you live up there, You must have a few
Between the Home Depot and Menards, I've gone to them both almost on a daily basis my whole life. I enjoy the stories you tell at your job Kevin.
I got to tell you it makes a difference with the people that you can tell like their job. I only had a bad experience one time with an employee in Saint Louis Park and was not a good way to start the day.
We've been tracking Hurricane Ion on the news up here in the morning and I gotta tell you I'm a little worried about ya Kevin. I hope you're right and it just blows over, so to speak.
I've had a big curiosity my whole life as I was digging through the cedar 2x4s last week. There was quite a few warped, banana boards in the pile.
It's been my observation over the years, it's usually the homeowners inconsideration and not the contractors that throw the boards every which way instead of keeping them stacked neatly while looking through them. That's how they end up warped so bad.
My question to you Kevin? I have wondered through the years, what do they eventually do with all those warped boards that nobody's going to buy?
Tired... but have a work order for the ongoing project of restoring decks and railings on tier 33 today. That won't stop Judy and I from going to the last car show of the Season tonight. They have a Roach Coach out there with some really good tacos for Taco Tuesday...
Have a great day gentlemen
TF
Good Morning Diners. Lion, thanks for the breakfast. Looks good!
I have frequently thought about a generator or at least a kerosene heater for the house just in case. The house I grew up in lost power with some regularity in a good winter storm, so our kerosene heater got a regular workout. That is probably what drives this thought. The house I live in now appears to be on the same power block as the local hospital and we RARELY lose power. I can count on one hand the number of times we've lost power in the 7 or 8 years we've been here, and I think 2 hours time was the longest we were out. We've been in situations where most of the town is out of power, including basically a complete circle around our neighborhood, and yet there we sit with the lights on. Lucky.
Bear, I love the cartoon! That's how you make a slow locomotive a fast one!
Have a good day everyone!
Mike
York1I have to compliment our power company. We have a lot of windstorms and snowstorms out here. We very seldom have a power failure.
We haven't had a major power outage since we installed our generator.
Hmmmm.... Top of the Page....
Breakyfaste is on the Leopard!
Today is Toadsday...
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Okay, I figured out the video problem, so here are some videos. I apologise for the poor quality.
The first one shows the train on a typical curve. There actually were tighter curves but the dense trackside bush made videos impossible. However, if you feel that the curves on your layout are too tight, just model the Agawa Canyon Train Tour and things will suddenly become very prototypical! Once the train is a few miles out of the SOO, there is very little straight track. The terrain is very hilly, and when the track was originally laid in the early 1900s, they chose to go around the obstacles rather than through them:
Remember to click on "Watch on Youtube".
There are a couple of large trestles on the route, including this curved one:
This is going towards the canyon:
This is the return trip:
The waterfall just before the train stops in the canyon:
The rest of the videos didn't turn out because the windows ruined the shots. When I do my review of the trip I'm going to suggest that they replace the badly scratched windows. However, I won't hold my breath because CN, the owner of the Agawa Tour Train, apparently won't put anything but the bare minimum $ into it, and the track shows that quite well. It was a real rock and roll ride!
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Dianne and I got back from our trip to Sault St. Marie earlier this evening. The highlight of the trip was the Agawa Tour Train. I promised lots of pictures and I did take a lot of videos, but my system is playing funny with the video formats so until I figure that out you will have to be satisfied with a few still shots. The coach windows were in pretty rough shape. The glass was heavily scratched (from going through the washing rack I believe), and some of the sealed units were fogged up.
The engines at the end of the tour:
Partial view of the train stopped in the Agawa Canyon:
A small portion of the canyon:
This is the back of the roundhouse in the SOO yard. If I heard the commentary correctly, the 'roundhouse' is not round. It is square! The turntable is inside the roundhouse.
The front of the roundhouse. I don't know which track feeds the turntable:
Parked in the SOO yard:
I'll try to re-format the videos tonight. I also have to get a couple of pics off of Dianne's phone.
mobilman44 Good Morning, Just passing thru and the mention of "hurricane" caused me to stop in for a bite of breakfast...... Having lived just north of Houston for the past 42 years, I've witnessed more hurricanes and severe tropical storms and their effects on people and property than I care to remember. Have to second Kevin's post, for it is definitely "right on". My most vivid experience was Hurricane Alicia ('83?) which was my first, and the eye pretty much followed up I-45 towards Dallas. The eye passed within 2 miles of my house, and it was an amazing sight and experience - but it was also pretty scary too. Take care, and give "Mother Nature" the respect she deserves!
Good Morning,
Just passing thru and the mention of "hurricane" caused me to stop in for a bite of breakfast......
Having lived just north of Houston for the past 42 years, I've witnessed more hurricanes and severe tropical storms and their effects on people and property than I care to remember.
Have to second Kevin's post, for it is definitely "right on".
My most vivid experience was Hurricane Alicia ('83?) which was my first, and the eye pretty much followed up I-45 towards Dallas. The eye passed within 2 miles of my house, and it was an amazing sight and experience - but it was also pretty scary too.
Take care, and give "Mother Nature" the respect she deserves!
I lived south of Houston for most of my growing up. Alicia in 83 Was my first hurricane. TS Claudette in 79 was the first TS I can remeber.
The Eye of Alicia came right over my house. It was weird. The one thing you remember about a hurricane is the wind does not stop. It howls all night.
We flooded in Claudette, Alvin has world record of rainfall in a 24 hour peroid. (49 inches) We lived in Pearland.
Alicia did not flood us as the wind pushed most of the water away.
However the yard flooded and every single fire ant in neigbhorhood floated to our yard.
Good morning from the stunning West Coast of America, the Canadian part.
Our usual routine in the morning is to go downstairs open up the kitchen and patio doors and just leave them open all day. I think we may make the end of the week doing that but fall is in the air today.
Ed, when Murphy visits us it is always in threes. You should go buy a lottery ticket, my wife does that when a string of bad luck hits and it is amazing the number of times she has won a few hundred or the odd thousand doing that. She generally does not buy lottery tickets though as she understands the odds all too well.
David, glad you enjoyed your cruise to the Baltics. My older cousin commanded frigates in the Royal Navy and one of his best friends was also an RN ships Commander, when he retired his friend became a cruise ship Captian. Once retired my cousin would go on many cruises on his friends' ship. He would take dinner most nights with his friend the Captain and one night my cousin did not show up for dinner. They found him dead in his cabin and put him ashore at a tiny place in the White sea. I was given some memorable tours of the Portsmouth Navel yard by my cousin, ships, and a couple of submarines over the years. It is an interesting experience walking around a Navy facility with a very senior officer.
Went to Costco with the wife this morning as she is tired from the three-day dog show she was at. They had 12' inflatable Santas, I am tempted and the wife wanted me to buy it. We usually have in excess of twenty for Christmas day/dinner and having missed the last two because of covid everyone can't wait for the big get-together this year. Christmas is measured by total wattage at my house. When I bought the house I had the power upgraded to 200amp service as there were no LED lights back then.
I enjoyed yesterday's omelet so much I am going to do it again today for lunch. Then I will take our big male who is home from the show and do the 10km loop.
Life is a train and you don't know where it is going. Do you climb aboard or live it at the station?
All the best to all.
Ed, I had the same idea when we had a large concrete porch/sidewalk poured. I stuck plastic conduit under it before it was worked on. There's nothing in it, but I know where the ends are in case I ever want power out in the yard on that side of the house.
I have to compliment our power company. We have a lot of windstorms and snowstorms out here. We very seldom have a power failure. A lot of our area now has buried lines, which I'm sure helps. I think they also do a great job of cutting back any trees before there's a problem. (This doesn't mean that people who have their trees trimmed don't complain about it!)
I've seen trees in my daughters' neighborhoods that have large old branches over the lines, just waiting for a good wind to knock out power.
Welcome back, David!
That fellow Murphy has visited me twice in the past week!
First, after burying the conduit in the area that will be paved over in my driveway, the crew came by on friday to prep and tamp the sub-base. Well. just wouldn't 'ya know, they snagged my telephone/DSL line and ripped it out of the ground
Side note, for a fleeting moment I thought about burying a second piece of conduit in the same trench I dug a few days earlier.
So, back to trenching and messing up the nice, compacted surface they had made for the asphalt. At least the outfit I have for phone/internet, Windstream, was really responsive and helpful. The service guy gave me his number to text him when I was ready to pull the new line in.
Then, last night, Murphy struck again! The power knocked out around 8 PM. Seems like more often, whatever switchgear they use it seems to "try" to reengage every minute or so. Yesterday it made about ten attempts to "reset" or whatever before completely dying for about an hour.
There was light rain so I guess you can't depend on electric service when the wires get wet!
Later when power was restored I got around to restarting the four PCs I have around the house. The one dedicated to security cameras seemed to want to start, then kaput!
That's the second PC power supply toasted in the past two months (the time in July was due to power reset/surge, too) Thing is, for my Dell the power supply was about $35. The PC the cameras are on is a Gateway (Acer) and the best price I could find was $90! Nearly identical supplies but one has an extra pair of wires that plug into the motherboard.
Harumph! Well, the original PS was made in April of 2012, so I figure that's about 87,648 hours of continuous duty.
Yes, all the PCs are on battery UPS units but that's no guarantee of any real protection.
Splitting the semaphores...
BNSF SD-70M at Springer N.M April 2003 , by Mark LLanuza, on Flickr
Some BN action to lure TF out of hiding —
C'est la vie...
Ed
SeeYou190 Just now, I watched the lead story on the noon news, They lead with Ian, and the news was WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE! -Kevin
Just now, I watched the lead story on the noon news, They lead with Ian, and the news was WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!
Good morning everyone.
I checked the 11:00 advisory on Hurricane Ian from NOAA and the National Hurricane Center. Fort Myers/Cape Coral are outside the cone of probability, but we are now officially under a Tropical Storm Watch.
I do not want to go to work today.
Good morning, diners. No breakfast this morning. I'm off to the dentist. Out here, that means 50 miles one-way.
Wichita State University, Kansas, has althletic teams known as the Shockers. For a long time, I knew of their good baseball teams, but I didn't know where the name Shockers came from.
I found out that in the early days, the university students, to earn money, would work "shocking" wheat for area famers. A newspaper started referring to them as the wheatshockers, and the name "Shockers" got to be the nickname.
Have a good Monday, everyone.
York1The Kansas City Royals just scored eleven (!) runs in the bottom of the sixth. They now lead 13-11.
BOOOOOOO!!!!
Vancouver and Seattle have an unwritten agreement that we cheer for each other when we're not playing each other. Like in hockey or soccer.
We were without power for days in 2008 when we had a big blow. The generator kept the freezer froze and the hockey on.
Welllllll!!!!
I wrote the last post too early. The Kansas City Royals just scored eleven (!) runs in the bottom of the sixth. They now lead 13-11.
Unbelievable. My wife is going nuts!
It's Sunday afternoon, and it has not been a good day for me sports-wise. First, the Kansas City Chiefs lost in the last minute, and then the Kansas City Royals let Seattle score 8 runs in the fifth inning. It's not really over yet, but it's probably over anyway.
Talking about food and storms reminds me of my brother. In 1980, his small town was hit by seven (!) separate tornadoes in one night. Their power was out for many days. He told me that when you went outside in his neighborhood, it was an amazing smell of meat cooked on the grills. With the power out so long, all the people were cleaning out their freezers before the food spoiled, and were cooking on their outdoor grills.
In Wichita, Kansas, there's a shortline called the Kansas & Oklahoma RR. (Strangely enough, the company operates in Kansas and Colorado, with no operations in Oklahoma.)
For a time, their logo had a wheat design.
Have a good Sunday evening, diners.
Good afternoon from the beautiful West Coast.
Got up and sat on the patio for three giant mugs of coffee. As hard as I tried I could not hear any human-caused sound. The giant maple leaves seem to make a horrendous noise as they fell from on high bouncing off the lower branches on the way down. I then grabbed my guitar and it was back out on the patio for another couple of hours to serenade the wildlife.
Then I decided I better go get the mail which is a nice walk past some farms and acreages. On the way back, I hear my name being shouted and it is one of the local farmers that leases out his land because he has retired but has a very large vegetable garden. He loaded me up on a giant cardboard flat with a vast assortment of veggies like broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, and these giant Chehalis onions which I just love and he gives me some on a regular basis. I start home and Helen is coming down her long driveway to the road with two dozen eggs and puts them on top of my pile of veggies. I carried this mound of freshness about half a km home. Even the dogs recognize a good score when it happens.
So I decided to take my fresh eggs, and fresh onions and go out back and pick four tomatoes off the vine. I then grab the mozzarella out of the fridge fresh from the deli and grate a pile off. I then slice two big thick slices of bacon off the slab we got when we bought the cheese and chopped it up into little pieces and made the best omelet I have ever had.
Next is a romp through the forest with the two dogs the wife left home. The old one is thirteen so we will do the short 6km jaunt. She still handles that fine.
The last real rain we had was June 9th, since that day we have had a grand total of 28.6mm, just over an inch. I usually turn the furnace on Oct 1, but I think we will be well into October before it happens this year.
Ed, I loved the girls pulling the big steam. Every year at the airport they would get teams together and see who could pull a 747 a 100 metres in the shortest amount of time. Good fun, and great prizes.
The bar is stocked, hockey starts tonight and I have a model railroad that puts a smile on my face.
Life is good.
Once upon a time.
Ed, those girls not only moved the train, but it kind of looked like they did it in high heels!
A nice, rainy Sunday here. A good day to browse the information superhighway — And play with trains!
I've seen stills of this event but getting the scene on film is worth the price of admission.
"Here is a locomotive —
here are some girls" All the introduction I need...
If you have time it is worthwhile to watch the whole video (film, in my day)
I used to live in Massachusetts, and my profile says I still do, but that's the site software's fault. Massachusetts gets the remnants of a hurricane every few years. Many years and quite a few girlfriends back, they predicted a bad hurricane. We stocked up on what we might need. When the storm really never arrived, we turned out the lights and had a picnic, complete with a basket and a blanket, in the unfinished attic.
My former in-laws were in Stuart, FL, when two hurricanes in a row came ashore basically where they lived. They went to an inland shelter for the first one, but hated the experience so much they decided to ride out the storm at home for the second one. They stocked up on water and ice so they could make cocktails. Their condo was pretty well protected and suffered little damage, but nearby places weren't as lucky. Papa noticed the flagpole at the end of the dock survived, so he ran the American flag up as a sign of triumph.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Yesterday was a very hard day a work.
Everyone was getting ready for the storm. Management made sure we had plenty of plywood, bottled water, chainsaws, and generators. We sold material all day. Five new trucks came in resupplying the store. We normally get eight trucks a week.
There was the usual assortmemt of idiots that are too funny, but something else happened I was not prepared for.
I have never dealt with the general public before a storm. I had no idea how genuinely scared the elderly would be, and they cannot perform preparations themselves. Talking with eldery customers was constantly heart breaking, and I was not prepared for it.
That was very difficult.