There's a hurricane coming...

[tsubasahome]

...and I'm beginning to think this is it for us.

I've never been so terrified in my life. I can't eat. I can barely sleep. I can't even choke down a few sips of tea. They're saying this is going to be worse than Gloria, the worst hurricane we've seen in decades and decades. I've got bottled water, some food, lanterns, but it's not enough. How the hell am I going to protect this house? I'm trying to move all the stuff that I can get into the garage but what about the roof? What about the windows? I can't board up--it's not like this is my house. There's no place I can go to escape from this and even if I could, my house would probably be looted because that's just the way people are.

My parents are not taking this seriously. My aunt has plans to go to Boston this weekend!

I've never been through a hurricane worse than Gloria. I don't know what to expect. Am I even going to have a place to live?

I live about 25 miles from the coast and 300 feet above sea level. Obviously, I'm not going to be getting storm surge, but what about the wind? Is my house going to be able to take it? And I can't find any information or consolation because everybody on the internet with any information WANTS it to happen!

Comments

You just slandered me for no reason =o(

[anakarinablythe.livejournal.com]

You just commented about me at this post: http://bad-dolly-deals.livejournal.com/263856.html.

I have no idea who you are talking about but it's not me. I kindly ask you to please check the correct ID of whoever you are actually referring to. I have never once posted anything in my Flickr account about not getting a PN body and never vent by business in my account either. I buy all my PN bodies from MimiWoo at Ebay. Check the message that was left for you and you will be able to see it's not me. I ask you to please remove that comment because it's very unfair. How would you feel if someone said something about you that was not true? You have mistaken me for someone else.
Thank you, Ana

Re: You just slandered me for no reason =o(

[tsubasahome.livejournal.com]

If I'm confusing you for somebody else, I'm sorry. I thought I recognized your username.

Still, don't you think it's pretty obvious that I'm under duress here? You need to call me out twice, once on Bad Dolly Deals and once in my own personal blog, calling me "mean" for a possible misunderstanding, considering the fact that you're responding to a post where I said I haven't eaten or slept in days because of the worst hurricane in New England's history is knocking on my door?

Re: You just slandered me for no reason =o(

[anakarinablythe.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about your situation. I understand that you are under stress. The world seems upside down lately. But please understand my feelings when I saw what was being said about me. I have pile of problems myself. I have a diabetic dog that depends on my customizing work and is literally alive thanks to the Blythe doll community, another dog I had to rush to the vet yesterday because she developed a neurological disorder and my husband recently developed a heart condition. I haven't been able to get any custom work done because of this and I haven't slept last night either because I stayed awake in fear of my dog's life. I am also under stress. I think we all need to understand each other before speaking and be more considerate with each other. All these problems could be resolved if people would just talk to each other.
Kind Regards, Ana

Re: You just slandered me for no reason =o(

[tsubasahome.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about the amount of stress you're under. I would have deleted the post on Bad Dolly Deals, but only the mods are allowed to do that. I honestly thought you were the person I was involved with...you have very similar user names! I should have double-checked...since you have such similar names and are both Blythe customizers, I assumed it was you...

I admit I'm kind of losing it over this hurricane business--it seems like it keeps getting worse and worse. I should have been more careful.

Re: You just slandered me for no reason =o(

[tsubasahome.livejournal.com]

By the way...I checked my sister's list of blocked Flickr users...remember how I said I blocked the person who I had gotten involved in the bad eBay transaction with? We both had blocked the person, but I unblocked her, thinking I was overreacting...and what do I see on my sister's blocked list but your username, both this one and your old one!

It was you, after all?

But I'm willing to drop it. We both have bigger problems. I'm not going to bother asking you why you lied about being involved in a transaction with me. I just feel kind of stupid over the fact that I believed you when you said I was accusing the wrong person.

Re: You just slandered me for no reason =o(

[anakarinablythe.livejournal.com]

Hi,
I honestly have no idea who you are or your sister. If your sister or you have me blocked is must me for some other reason but I assure you it has absolutely nothing to do with an Ebay transaction over a Pure Neemo body. As I said before please check your Ebay messages to verify that. You are also welcome to ask any of my contacts if they remember ever seeing me rant about not getting a Pure Neemo body. I would never post such a thing. You can view my account and see if I resort to such behavior. If you let me know your Flickr Id or your sister's I may be able to put my finger on the issue or misunderstanding of the blocking. You still have the wrong person on your incident of the Pure Neemo body. Maybe your blocked me by mistake at the moment thinking I was the Ebay member. I have never asked anyone to sell me something out of Ebay. I don't want to carry on with this, I honestly have little time to spare but I am replying because I feel you need to know I am not the person that you are saying has problems over a PN body.
Kind Regards, Ana

Re: You just slandered me for no reason =o(

[tsubasahome.livejournal.com]

It was you. Neither of us have ever blocked anybody but the person involved in the transaction and one other person(who recently was caught conning somebody on Flickr). I live with my sister and we share a computer--I was there, watching, when she blocked you. We blocked the ID of the person who posted on Flickr about the doll body directly from the post. The name was niniaveneno.

I don't block people on Flickr for no reason, and neither does my sister. She blocked you because...well...she is my sister, and it was her doll body I was selling. I unblocked you because I thought I was overreacting, but she never got around to it. So I have one blocked Flickr user, she has 2. Neither of us go blocking people left and right for no reason!

By the way, my eBay user ID is lie-chan. The body was off a Secret Wonderland Chiika, before the Flection body was officially released, 2 years ago.

I don't believe the original thread still exists. I think it was purged by the mod because it was old. However, I do have records of e-mail messages back and forth between me and Iannis, the mod of the flickr Pure Neemo group, dated from June 2009, mentioning you by name "Ninia Veneno" and with a link to the now-deleted thread(and he acknowledges what you said about me) and to a picture in your now-defunct niniaveneno flickrstream that you took from my eBay auction description and posted comments about what I "did" to you.

I'm not going to out you on Flickr or Bad Dolly Deals or anything--if you've honestly forgotten about the whole transaction, fine. Let's just leave it at that. I don't really want to talk about this anymore. I just want you know what how much I know, and that the only way this possibly wasn't you is if somebody hijacked your Flickr and eBay account and impersonated you.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

You have to be able to evacuate if necessary when warnings come, so packing things for that would be a good idea. Checking community sources for what you're allowed to take (and NOT) to a shelter would be useful to know, and is something you can do now, if you haven't already done so. Communities should be providing shelter information as it becomes clearer where it might hit.
Also, many people-shelters don't allow you to bring in pets. Some animal shelters will take them, so it would help to track down who will take your pets, and how they need them documented, an what sort of cages to use, would also be useful. I used to work with a woman who helped during fires out here to evacuate horses and pet pigs and dogs and so on, so it can be a fairly involved process for the folks trying to rescue animals they don't know, and every pet that gets taken out by owners, with their documents, is that much more help.

[tsubasahome.livejournal.com]

I know we didn't get evacuation orders for Gloria...but I'm concerned about what those of us who live in areas still vulnerable to the wind but far enough from the shore to not be evacuated are supposed to do. Just deal with it? I have such limited experience with hurricanes.... =_= I know this house has been through Carol...and Donna...and Hazel...but I wasn't around to see it. All I remember is Gloria...we got the eye and everything...but I was only 8 years old, and I came out of it not thinking it was that bad. I'm not sure what to expect here.

My aunt is still going to Boston, and leaving my father stranded in Naugatuck with no car, caring for my elderly grandmother in the middle of a hurricane. She actually cried when she thought my father was going to back out. She doesn't seem to grasp the seriousness of the situation. How in the world is she going to get home? What about storm surge?

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Contact the city and ask about shelters, is my best suggestion.
I like the good news that your house has stood through other storms like this. Is it possible to bring your father and grandmother over to your house where it's safer?

[tsubasahome.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately(or is that fortunately?...probably fortunately) the car issues aside, my grandmother/aunt's house will actually have running water if the power goes out, and we won't, so I'm not sure our house is so much safer. Also, my grandmother is not very mobile...she can't even go down stairs unassisted, and we have tons of windows...I'm planning on riding out the storm in my finished basement, but there's no way she'd be able to make it down there.

I guess they'll be okay. My aunt has some medical staff due to arrive on Sunday afternoon to help out. Apparently, they're not afraid of driving around in a hurricane... My father was raised in that house, so it's been around for 60+ years...and it's seen even worse stuff than ours...

I just can't understand why my aunt is still going through with it. When my father suggested that the trip wasn't such a good idea, both she and my cousin started crying hysterically, thinking he was going to be ruining things for them. I certainly wasn't raised like that! >_< I wouldn't even ask my older brother to open a jar for me, let alone strand him with no car in the middle of a hurricane!

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Best of luck to all of you, and hope you'll be able to get some rest soon. *HUGS!*

[tsubasahome.livejournal.com]

Luckily, at this point, the hurricane's a little weaker than they expected...they're saying it'll be a strong tropical storm or a weak Category 1 hurricane. We aren't in a storm surge zone, and I know the house can withstand winds that strong...Gloria wasn't much different. If it's only as bad as Gloria, it'll be okay...too bad Gloria was so long ago that I don't really remember how scary it was!

It's been 26 years since a hurricane made landfall here. I knew it was a matter of time...I just hoped it wasn't so soon...