The Perfect Storm

For the past week beautiful Hawaii has been not so beautiful. We've had a ton of rain and strong winds. Our electricity was out from 3am Wednesday morning until 1130pm Friday night. Schofield was a disaster with trees uprooted and branches broken; school was closed Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and it might be closed Monday. We are supposed to have rain all the way until next Tuesday, hopefully it won't be as bad.
Since we were without power, we lost all the food in the fridge and freezer. The Army was handing out bags of ice, so we loaded up and filled Jessica's bathtub to try to salvage some of the food. Luckily the towns close to us and some other parts of post were able to get power so we could at least eat fast food. Housing opened up some vacant apartments and we were able to sign for it for 2 hours to take hot showers, do laundry and let the kids watch TV. Not exactly the best week of our lives but we survived and are no worse for the wear.
It wasn't the most ideal time to lose power for 3 days, Charlie deploys soon and instead of enjoying ourselves we had to rough it. It was nice to have him around to help though. Our friend Leo left for Iraq Thursday so Laura was roughing it alone, but she did a great job living like an Army wife of yester year, lol.
Some pictures of the damage: