Most agree Hermine is a female name. It is not a popular one. The last time it made the top 100 list in names in the US was 1917. Anyway, she came for a visit last night and is lingering this morning. Word has it she will leave after lunch today.
Hermine was a sweetie. She brought us needed rain but didn't try to wash us in the bay. She has blown the limbs about and brought some of the dead and weakened ones down, but no holes in the roof. She came rather quietly with no booming thunder or lightning flashes. She did have an "eye" when passing by. It was over by Alice. We received the outer bands. Some of our wind gusts were probably fifty miles an hour.
Hermine reminds us all what a category III or IV storm would be like. It makes us hope and pray one does not come this way. I will now go out and retrieve the paper and read about what the storm was like. Hey, I was in it!
Hermine is leaving and we are hap-py.
We're ready for a sky of blue..
We're glad she moved on to soak another
Now, our plants are hap-py too!
(Sing to "You Are My Sunshine")
