Day 1: Monday 10/29/12
Location: Northern Virginia
Log: I awoke to the sudden gushing of rapid wind knocking the nearby, bare Maple trees against the plastic siding on my house. I then traveled downstairs where I found a very active father, home from work, on account of the storm closing all business functions in high rise buildings. As we were sitting down, my mother went over the plan for the day, which for me included doing all my homework for the next two weeks in these two, school-free days.
I finished up my AP Chem homework, after six hours of hard stoiciometric calculations and equilibrium constant solving, I settled down to finish off what was left of my APUSH readings. It was around 5:00 pm or so when I finished my SAT practicing, when I saw a plastic skull rolling across the yard, an unfortunate foreshadowing I wish I never experienced. After a more cheerful dinner-time debate of life, my family watched a show or two in the few remaining watts of power we'll have before the electricity finally flickers out. As my family was settling down into our beds for the furious night, we receive a call from my Grandmother's neighbor. She told us, rather dubiously, that a tree fell down onto our Grandmother's house, through the dining room and kitchen, the same kitchen that experienced the might of a grease fire some 30 years earlier, the same kitchen my Uncle ran a car through only 5 years after that, the same kitchen that was redone a year earlier and facade of the house 2 months ago. My Grandmother was not injure, other than a slight bit razzled by the near-death experience she underwent while somberly hiding in the basement. Tomorrow, we'll need to tell, or keep secret from, our hospitalized Grandfather, who will undergo a second hip replacement surgery this upcoming Monday. This has been my log, see you tomorrow, if I survive.
