The entire subject, cottage, location, dead and injured people, devastated other islands that missed by the skin of my teeth.... just dumb luck really, this time... is exhausting.
And the sea wall getting knocked about is a reminder that the water's coming for the shoreline at some point. If I don't get that seawall in, and pretty quick, I'm gambling with fate.
And, even if I do put up that sea wall... who's to say the roof wouldn't have come off in that hurricane, for surely it would have. I have need of tactical breathing when I think about it.
Another good, if small, piece of news is the bar at the end of the drive is open, and operational. It's just a small place, with light wood U shaped bar, but it's a PLACE you don't have to taxi to, boat to, or walk a mile in the heat to.
This means there's a simple restaurant, store, water, ice, marina, ferry boat, and bar within walking distance of the cottage, and the housekeeper's got a car. I didn't know she had a car. That's great... she has a car! carrying 5 gallon bottles of water up and down the drive wasn't a very pleasing job.
Lighter