First of all, I want to express my most sincerest of sympathies to everyone affected by Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irma. I hope that you have very little, if any, damage and that your power is restored soon.

Second of all, we evacuated our home and headed inland about 70 miles to an uncle's house in Baxley, Georgia. We received a lot of wind and rain. Several trees were felled and a lot of limbs were blown out of the other trees.

Finally, I'm sitting in a hospital room in Alma, Georgia, next to my mother who's lying in the bed. The reason for this is because early Monday morning my mother decided to take a tumble and injure herself. She managed to bruise her hip badly, fractured her scapula, tore her scalp bad enough to need seven staples, has a bruise on her brain, and a number of scrapes on her cheek. Despite all these injuries, she's in good spirits, lucid and in relatively good health. I'm hoping that she'll be released from the hospital soon. I guess I'll know soon enough.