It is Wednesday night, September 12 and I’m at home, along with multiple others in their homes, anxiously awaiting Hurricane Florence. It is scheduled to hit land tomorrow and, according to all news reports, is expected to pretty much decimate the coastline of North Carolina and much territory inland from days of torrential rains and flooding rivers. I am surprisingly at peace. I have prayed for the sparing of lives more than anything because property can, in most cases, be replaced. It’s odd awaiting a hurricane. Although we are hours and hours from the coast, “they” are predicting record flooding even in my home town! For 3 days now, we have been told to stock up on water and food supplies (at least 3 days worth, which I have not done) and be prepared for flooding of low areas and power outages. (The Doer did spend 2 hours in line to buy a generator!) It’s almost surreal to watch the hurricane develop slowly over many days and listen to the weather experts predict virtually everythin