Day 239 - August 26

Yesterday was hurricane preparation day here at the Dorval house. As of yesterday morning, Isaac was still forecasted to make a direct hit on Mobile, so we were getting the house and yard ready to withstand the worst of the storm.

At this point, it's supposed to make landfall further west and we might not see weather as bad as we were expecting, but we're ready anyway.

Besides tying down yard toys and furniture, one of our biggest preps was to get the windows ready for our hurricane shutters. We're grateful that we have nice metal shutters, but they take some work.. namely removing a gazillion "decorative" plastic screws from the brick and screwing in a gazillion metal screws used to actually hang the shutters.

It was super fun.

And there were a lot of screws (that's a gallon-size ziploc).