I THINK WE'RE READY FOR IAN

the storm apparently is ramped up and the biggest mess that the hurricane caused was this [Music] [Music] [Music] good morning guys today's Friday looked first thing this morning we're supposed to be getting rain here very soon the storm apparently is ramped up as it hit the coast of Florida and then back out into the ocean and then straight up to South Carolina and then right to where we are we may just be getting like the edge of it originally I was looking at it looked like it was going to be like right on top of us but it's still going to hit us just hopefully not like plow right through us but we'll see tomorrow is really the day it's supposed to be like hammering down so we have a few days of rain good storm and we'll see what happens so my first thing this morning I'm trying to make sure these chickens and chicks are taken care of the chickens have their little Mini Coop which I think will be fine to protect them it's heavy and it has a roof and walls so they can be protected from any rain that may come through the baby chicks have a small amount of protection so I think I might put like a tarp or something over the other area that way they can stay a little more dry foreign [Music] foreign so last night I remembered we have this it's a rechargeable Lantern so I charge that up I bought this flashlight which is also rechargeable and it lasts like up to 10 hours so it should be put to good use let me know if you want the links for this I'll put these links in um our description or something for our Amazon shop and you can go check this stuff out but about this just for our property but we have it lasts up to 10 hours and I forgot we had been sent this one thing that I've never used before but it's supposed to be for our camper and we haven't used the camper yet since I've had it so for some reason last night I was reminded that we had this thing and it's perfect for like power outages what's this Rock Pals 300 watts it's a charging station I charged it up last night um it has I can't remember how many like charges it has but if anything if we need like our phones charged that's kind of what I'm thinking we could use with this thing here it's got USB ports and it has a AC outlet it has a little you know the little car charging adapter Port whatever there so yeah this should be good to help should the power go out and our phones die or anything like that I'll be able to use this thing here [Music] all right the rain's starting to come down grab the tarp and some straps and I just remembered um I'm really not too concerned about this the mini chicken coop we built because it's very heavy but it does have like ways wind could get in there and maybe tip it possibly so I remember when I was just going in my bin back there that we have these trampoline straps to tie those down I'm going to use that to actually strap that down by the wheels just to make sure nothing happens to it but it's starting to rain so we got to get to it that should work pretty tight s on here [Music] [Music] all right you got my straps on um and it looks like everything's pretty secure we had those trampoline straps from our old house and they worked really well we never had an issue with the trampoline lifting during any storms and so I'm hoping that it'll do the same here probably more than enough for this little Coupe so I'm gonna head in probably need to run into town and grab a few things and then um we'll just sit back and wait and see what happens I redid my straps here because it was already not working like it blew up on one side when I had it diagonal and it just stayed up so that wasn't going to work so I just redid the strap it wasn't set up right so I set it up now it's tight here inside here and um should be good [Music] thank you [Music] so I'm heading to the store right now you know during these storms it brings the crazy out in everybody and most people buy way more than they need to so I don't even know if they're gonna have what we need there but luckily a lot of our kids eat vegetarian food and we eat gluten-free bread and things like that so typically those are the last things to go so if I'm lucky there will be some still there [Music] stuff here [Music] so it looks like there's still plenty of food here so I wonder if that's just because it's a small town and they don't react so crazily to things as people might in bigger towns I don't know but uh looks like we have our options of things and many things that we need that are on my list [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] so they basically had just about everything I was looking for which is good hopefully it'll be enough to last us if we do lose power if we got the welcoming committee today so I'm picking up milk we have friends our friends Ryan and Ariana who have a dairy cow and we get our milk from them every week today's the day we're gonna need it too foreign [Music] ah groceries are put away and so now we just wait the rain is starting to pick up and uh we'll just have to see from what I've seen we're supposed to get some heavier Extreme More extreme weather tonight so so I'll just keep you guys posted [Music] [Music] I don't know it's happening I hope not too but we just had lights flickering in the house while we're making dinner that's not a good sign though that's for sure we're trying to have dinner here hopefully the power doesn't go off before Dinner's Done everybody pray doesn't go off until dinner's done foreign well as you can see against the reports of the weatherman nothing happened down here we got rain a little bit of wind I would say gusts up to maybe 20 miles an hour but the weather reports were saying we were going to be getting winds 20 to 25 maybe even more miles an hour with gusts up to 50. didn't see it didn't happen in fact the biggest mess that the hurricane caused was this the kids being inside all day destroying our homeschool slash playroom and leaving it a mess but you know what if that's the worst thing that happened which it was I'm grateful for it that way I didn't want to have to be stuck inside with our kids for a couple days without power so I'm grateful for that again would love to hear people's stories and what's going on in Florida how you're handling it how you're surviving and if anyone knows any good organizations that are doing good work down in Florida that we can donate to put a link we'll try to help get people to see it so that way as the recovery efforts are taking place there people can help out all around the country and world even so on that note love you guys and we will see y'all later and we're praying for you all who are experiencing any loss during the hurricane would love again to hear your story um just so that we can kind of keep you on our hearts we love you guys and we'll see you later [Music] [Music]