Batting Down the Hatches...didn't I do this a few years ago?

I don't know if it's just my luck or what, but right before we moved away from Jacksonville (3 1/2 years ago), we got hit by four hurricanes.  Actually, Chris was safe in Mississippi while I was stuck here alone for all four.  Now, after coming back to Jacksonville only 4 months ago, I am experiencing deja vu.  Chris is down in Miami, where Tropical Storm Fay barely brushed him with a few gusts of wind and about 3.8 inches of rain.  Ethan, Inca, and I are up here in Jacksonville, where the meteorologists predict Fay will hit as a category 1 hurricane on Thursday.  Now I am trying really, REALLY hard to remember why we thought it would be a good idea to move back here.  Did the previous four hurricanes not teach me that when Chris leaves, the hurricanes come?  

Chris has called several times to make sure we are okay.  Despite his insistence that I get plenty of sleep tonight to be able to handle everything the next two days, I find myself up at 12:30am completely glued to the weather channels to track the movement of the storm.  It's not that I'm worried, it's just this darn storm has changed course so often since this past Sunday that I'm curious to see where it will go next.  A category 1 usually just means a lot of rain and winds strong enough to knock down tree branches or power lines.  It's more of an annoyance than anything dangerous, especially if the power goes out.  

Fortunately, we are as prepared as I feel we can get with plenty of canned food, water, dog food, flashlights, candles, batteries, and a healthy supply of movies and books to outlast the bad weather.  We are also fortunate enough to have wonderful friends among the Coast Guard wives and in our church who have called or stopped by to make sure we will be okay or invite us to stay further inland with them.  (We are only 10-15 minutes from the beaches, but not in the evacuation areas for anything smaller than a category 4 hurricane.)  

Hopefully, I'll wake up in the morning and the storm will have changed direction or died down....we'll see!!