Day one of Dolly

One might think that when you are under a hurricane warning, a tornado watch, and a flood watch, one might stay home and watch movies until the electricity goes out. I guess some people do that. Some have hurricane parties. Not us. This morning we braved the weather for doctor appts. for the girls, Laurelei has made it to 22lbs and 32 inches, CJ is holding steady at 39lbs and 42 inches. We then braved the weather for gymnastics, not sure when we'll get out to do things. At that point, Dolly had not yet officially made landfall.

Basically starting around 2:30 this morning, it has been raining off and on. Often a really good drenching rain, other times similar to a waterfall --oh wait--hurricane force buckets of rain with wind. But we have not been stuck inside! Check these out!

This was the gulf, from our backyard at about 10:30 this morning.

Here is a waterlogged flower in our backyard, beauty during a storm.

You may go outside during a hurricane as long as you have proper attire on, a rain coat if raining,

princess shoes if windy.

The gulf at about 3:30 this afternoon.

My camera has a pretty good zoom on it, so I did stand on our back porch for these pictures, I'm sure more impressive if I went over there, but are you crazy? There's a hurricane going on!

A short, and I mean very short, video of what "a small child advisory" means.