Irene

All night long the wind and the rain howled and raged. We laid on the floor listening to the furniture outside getting thrown around. One chair even ended up in the pool The people were upstairs sound asleep. Couldn't they hear what was going on outside? Certainly there would be no dog show tomorrow. But what were we thinking? There is always a dog show.

The dog show is never cancelled. It seems that nothing stops the show from going on. Even last year when a blizzard was coming, we loaded up the car and headed for the beach area where the blizzard was headed, but where the dog show was being held. As the storm headed right for where we were going, the lady was optimistic that it would be OK. We stayed in a hotel that was better suited for the summer time than the cold winter. After the first day of shows, I heard the lady talking to the man about maybe she had made a mistake, maybe she should head home. But he said it was too late. The storm had already begun and we would be driving right into it. So we stayed. The hotel was right across the street from where the show was, but certainly the show would be cancelled. Everyone said so. The snow began to pile up. We made it back to the hotel to settle in and batten down the hatches. During the night the power went off. Surely this was not a good thing to happen. No heat, no electricity. Now what? Well what do you think we did? We went across the street to the dog show. While the town was bracing for evacuations and setting up temporary shelters, we were at the dog show.

We waded across the street to the building. The snow was up to my chest and my lady's waist. But we trudged through. I guess there was some comfort for her to be with people of the same mindset. and trust me there were a lot of people at the show. All of the dogs just looked at each other and thought the same thing. Our people are crazy. We rolled our eyes and shook our heads.

We did finally leave the show after the snow stopped and roads were cleared two days later. It took forever to get home and when we finally did the man rolled his eyes and shook his head. I guess he thought the same thing, dog people were crazy. So on this morning with the weather channel on and the man on the tv telling everyone how to prepare and stay safe during the hurricane, we were watching our people get ready and we knew it was not to be safe but to go tot he dog show. And so we went, the rain was driving and the wind was blowing but we arrived at the dog show with all of the other crazies.