Hurricane Matthew

I'm not sure if you heard, but a few weeks ago we had a little visitor named Hurricane Matthew.

After much deliberation (and consultation with my Cajun neighbors) we decided that we'd stay.

Here's what happened.

I went to the grocery store to stock up and came home with not one, not two, not even three, but FIVE bags of chips. That's more chips than I've bought in the last six months combined.

On Friday as we were eating an early (hot!) dinner, we got a tornado warning. The kids sprang into action after having done this like 4 times before today. ;)

Erik and Nash experienced their first CAT 2 hurricane together. :)

The strong winds rolled in on Saturday night. We made sure to have the big kids asleep before the show started, and the slept right through it. Nash, on the other hand... Which I was honestly a-okay with. I was convinced his window would come crashing in.

We were so fortunate in that we never lost power. Many parts of post did, and there are several homes that are not even livable anymore. We really, really lucked out with just a little lost sleep and some time spent in our tornado shelter (AKA: downstairs bathroom).

But here's the nitty gritty:

Erik has told me on more than one occasion that we are only about 3 days away from anarchy. I kind of thought that was ridiculous. Okay, I full on thought that was ridiculous. UNTIL Matthew.

The local paper had pictures of people in a line wrapped around the store waiting to get in to Walmart. But there was no power in the store so they were only letting  a few people in at a time. NO POWER at WalMart. So what were they buying? Water? Batteries? Flash lights? All the things they should have bought before the hurricane, I'm guessing, because God knows they weren't buying anything cold, fresh or frozen.

Two days after the storm I ventured out to stock up for some house guests (more on that later) and this is what we found. No cold food. Because WalMart, the purveyor or generators, does not have a generator. And the other grocery stores in town were flooded. 

There was nothing but canned soup.

We are most decidedly only a few days from anarchy.