A Maze of Streets

The next day, we awoke and decided at some point that we needed to drive out to see if Phoenix’s work (the bird store) was still there. We went outside to find many trees down in the neighborhood, our neighbors back porch ripped to shreds, roofs stripped bare of their shingles in patches. But this was not to be the worst. When we saw the main streets of our powerless city (no traffic lights which made going slow) it was amazing. Besides the normal trees and telephone poles being either damaged, or laying on the road, huge billboards (you know, the one being held up by huge thick steel girders) were bent or snapped and completely collapsed. I saw one of these that had collapsed on a delivery truck. Most businesses had some sort of minor damage, such as awnings ripped and such, but occasionally one would see a business that was half collapsed. We went on our merry way to the bird store, and took our traditional route, which goes down various back ways to get there, as it is the fastest. We found that we had entered a maze. Almost every road we went down was blocked by fallen trees. We got completely turned around at one point, but we managed to find a main road and got to the store, to meet some of Phoenix’s co-workers who were doing the same thing. The one positive aspect of this is that there is an avocado tree in the back of the store, and we collected about 12 avocados that had been blown off the tree, so at least we got something out of the trip.

At some point Sat. we also decided to go visit Martin, as that we could not seem to dial out, on the cell, and when we got there, a thunderstorm came through. Talk about adding insult to injury! On top of that it wasn’t your average thunderstorm, it was one of those blowing, crashing, step outside and it feels like a waterfall type storm. We got there, and they weren’t home! Oy!

So, we decided to go see a movie (all the malls were fine and open, go fig) and saw alien vs. predator. Nice effects well worth seeing for that, but don’t bother with the plot.

Got home, lit up candles and enjoyed the rest of the night relaxing with my Phoenix.