Had a very fast moving storm move thru the St. Louis are Friday morning. At 5:30 AM the power went out. Went out for breakfast and saw tall trees fallen . Big traffic snafu. Fortunately, no one was killed. After a few hours we packed up the stuff in our freezer and took it over to my son's place. Came back home and sat in the dark a couple more hours. Decided to go to a hotel. Power didn't come back on until 3:00 PM on Saturday. That was almost 35 hours. Could have ben worse. The hotel we stayed at was near a Michael's. Haven't been there for months. Didn't need anything and couldn't find anything I wanted. I did notice that their DMC floss was 52 cents a skein. Plus they had a ton of kits. That really surprised me.
Went next door to the Dollar Tree and spent $3.48. Big Spender.
The kicker was my husband started complaining about a backache. He wanted to go home and get some Naproxen. I suggested that we just go to Target or Walmart since both were in that same mall. No, No. Why do that when we have a big bottle at home?!?!? When we got back to the hotel I realized that I actually had some Naproxen in my purse. Haven't told him about that yet.
The county got busy and has cleared up all of the tree damage. Glad that we didn't have flooding. Our street was lucky. Only a few large branches broken off. We have been vey fortunate. There have been a lot of storms in the St. Louis area the past few years. We must be doing something right.
Need to do some stitching tomorrow.
Posted by: NANCYE G on 05/21/17
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Hi. My dad lives near St Louis to the east. Haven't heard about the storm yet. lol
Michael's and Joann's seriously raised their prices on floss and don't have much else I'm interested in. I was shocked at the twelve cent increase last time I went. No reason to go there anymore when I can order online for the same price and shipping is about the same or less than the gas to get back and forth. Only good thing about going to either store now is that there's not much else there to tempt me into a shopping spree. lol
Posted by: dawn0621 on 05/21/17
Three weeks ago, the Seattle area had a thunder storm with lightening strikes. It wrecked havoc south of Seattle, sending trees into houses and creating traffic jams. The TV weather newscast mentioned a tornado which is unusual for Northwestern Washington. There was a lot of wind north of Seattle. Luckily DH and I had power and no damage.
Northwestern Washington finally now has spring weather. It got to 70 degrees and sunny this weekend! It's been such a long cold winter with nine inches of rain more than normal.