Obligatory Hurricane Irene Post.
Aug. 29th, 2011 02:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tju_tju_tju_tjuThe hurricane didn't really hit my area too bad. By the time it got to us it was downgraded to a "tropical storm" and it just rained a lot overnight, stopped around noon, and then drizzled the rest of the day. And it was pretty windy. Nothing too crazy. Some parts of the town and the surrounding area did get flooded, but thankfully not me or Rob. The worst that happened was one of the branches fell off the tree on our front lawn, haha.
I had work from 12 to 4 today, and man, was it slow! It was completely dead for the first half-hour, and then people started trickling in once they realized the storm was over, since I guess they hadn't shopped enough Thursday-Saturday or something. The store was fucking CRAZY those three days, man. Long lines everywhere and empty shelves. I did a huge set-up on Friday evening, but the next morning they had to do even MORE of it because the rolls kept getting snatched up. Madness!
The night person called out so I wound up having to close the bakery when I left, but it wasn't like she would've had anything to do anyway. I even brought some of the load in, and I never do that, is how bored I was. AND I made cookies and put what few cakes we had left in the freezer out, and made some cannoli kisses. Hey, it helped kill the time, at least. And it'll give Jamie a little less to do tomorrow (she's the cake decorator).
eta: Oh, I forgot to add! The power went out for a minute or so and the alarms started going off like crazy in the store. It was kinda scary for a bit there.
I had work from 12 to 4 today, and man, was it slow! It was completely dead for the first half-hour, and then people started trickling in once they realized the storm was over, since I guess they hadn't shopped enough Thursday-Saturday or something. The store was fucking CRAZY those three days, man. Long lines everywhere and empty shelves. I did a huge set-up on Friday evening, but the next morning they had to do even MORE of it because the rolls kept getting snatched up. Madness!
The night person called out so I wound up having to close the bakery when I left, but it wasn't like she would've had anything to do anyway. I even brought some of the load in, and I never do that, is how bored I was. AND I made cookies and put what few cakes we had left in the freezer out, and made some cannoli kisses. Hey, it helped kill the time, at least. And it'll give Jamie a little less to do tomorrow (she's the cake decorator).
eta: Oh, I forgot to add! The power went out for a minute or so and the alarms started going off like crazy in the store. It was kinda scary for a bit there.
