Post Hurricane Irene

Here I thought I'd not been in the area most affected by Irene, but it turns out I was wrong. Some of the areas we drove through were some of the areas most affected by Irene in Quebec it turns out. At least we drove through a part of Quebec that received the most rainfall. 

All I can say with the winds that we experienced - gusts close to 100km per hour, I'm happy I had the unhealthy part of my maple tree cut down - when I had a close call with part of the tree falling really close to the house.  It would certainly have come crashing. 

I was looking at the National Hurricane centre website tonight, and there's a hurricane that may land in US' south next week, there's a depression in the gulf of Mexico that's going to land in Louisiana and there's potentially a post-tropical depression forming not so far away from Nova Scotia. Looks like the winds are propitious for creating storms at the moment.

Stormy Skies

I dunno if my moods are like the weather these days in Montreal, what weatherperson loves to call unsettled weather. It drives me nuts What the heck is "unsettled weather". Is weather ever settled?

There was severe thunderstorm alerts. They were even afraid of 2cm sized hail and possibly tornadoes. Nothing of the sort happened. Heck in Montreal we just got a little thunder and some rain.

Now I was in a mood today, I could have killed. Very little got me all grumpy. Was it weather related? The storm has passed outsdie, I can see the setting sun.. and suddenly I'm feeling far less grumpy.

Of course my underlying reason to be grumpy is that I miss Samer.. I miss him so much it's like I was missing a limb. But most of the time I pretend everything is good, cause so long as I don't think about it I can get through the day. Get through work, get through the bills, get through the groceries, and the garbage, Alleluiah!

There's so much I want to do and yet all I do is sit and mope and sigh... and look at pictures, remember moments we shared. Just the intimacy... being able to look at each other and know and smile back. Shared laughs, shared moments. It's so hard after spending 3 weeks constantly together to be apart again. But somehow I will get through today like every other day.

Stormy weather.....