Ian

I haven’t had a chance to update. Overall things with Eric have gone well over the last 15 days. Just a few more days together before I head back to AZ. I will have to spend some time later catching up on our trip together.

I want to vent a bit about the impact of Hurricane Ian though.

It hit hard where I live in FL. My parents are still without power. If I was there I would be so stressed out not being able to work. Their cell service is improving, but was terrible in the beginning. Still no internet. They are fortunate to have a generator but it doesn’t run the a/c. My dad can’t run his CPAP on it, without it disconnecting the fridge. They are tired. Their pool cage and landscape was ruined. Some roof damage. But otherwise faired well. I have friends who lost everything.

I found out yesterday that my storage unit flooded. It’s 97% of the things I kept in my divorce. I do have insurance – up to $5000. My dad is going through it this weekend. Taking photos for the claim, repacking anything that can be salvaged into new boxes. It’s a HUGE undertaking and I am feeling terribly. I knew I was going to have to sell a lot from my unit if I moved in with Eric – but we aren’t there yet, so it’s scary. And I know I have more than $5000 worth of stuff in there. I have to figure out finding as many original receipts as possible (thankfully I shop so much on Amazon and Costco haha!) The time this will take my dad, is devastating for me. And then the time for me to get the claim submitted is just overwhelming. I am grateful this isn’t my everyday living situation right now, but this is my everything that I have. Eric has made a couple jokes (that I had already thought about) that losing everything is maybe a blessing, like total loss, now I don’t have to bring all of it to MA when I move in. But, I didn’t realize how HARD it would be to lose all my stuff. To not get to choose what I kept. I still don’t have word on how my photos and lifetime memories faired. I have a huge knot in my stomach. I also have guilt that my luckily timed trip meant that I didn’t have to deal with the worst of this hurricane. A survivors type guilt.

I also have a HUGE work project I really need to focus on now…so more later.