I’m watching the weather like crazy right now.  Not only do I have friends who are evacuating due to Hurricane Gustav, but now I see tropical storm Hanna is headed our direction.  It looks like Hanna will be hitting somewhere around Savannah, and I don’t like that at all.

Many of my friends and family members live in that area.  If Hanna becomes a hurricane before it hits, it will definitely impact my friends that live farther up the coast across the South Carolina border.  If it hits they’ll probably be evacuating which means they’ll probably end up here.

I’m also freaking out over how active things are becoming right now because I seriously don’t want lose the money I just put down on the beach house for our vacation.  If there is a hurricane that hits around that time we’ll receive our money back only if a mandatory evacuation is issued.  The catch 22 there is that if we’re already in the middle of our vacation we won’t receive any refund for missed nights if we leave before the evacuation becomes mandatory.  I’m sorry but I’ll lose my cash in that case.  There’s 1 road onto the island with a huge bridge.  The bridge freaks me out as it is just driving over it, and I can only imagine my panic attacks if we got stuck sitting on that bridge in evacuation traffic backed up for miles.  Nope, not going to happen!

The last time we went to Edisto we got stuck in a tropical storm.  I’m not doing that again.  If there’s even the slightest chance of getting hit while we’re there, we’re leaving.