Erin go Bragh in Savannah

St Patrick's Day is usually really crazy in Savannah - but, this year was really crazy because of weather. Tornados hit Atlanta Friday night - we landed in Atlanta Saturday morning as the city embraced the damage - another band of storms were heading our way - we arrived in Savannah and waited for Bill and Pam at the airport - Colin and Julie had driven down and made it to the house before us. We hooked up at the house and headed to a really cool restaurant called the Hunter House Bed and Breakfast. We got back to the house on Tybee Island and retired for the night only to awake to a power outage due to tornados that hit Savannah. Not only did we get a black out; but, the whole downtown Savannah experience a total Black out - restaurants and bars were closing and totalling checks with flash lights as computers and cash registers were out of commission. Luckily we planned our St. Patricks Day Celebration to begin on Sunday. We had a good time walking River Street along the Savannah River and being a part of the party.

The restaurants, bars, Hotels, taxis, everyone connected with a tourism event got burned and lost a lot of money throughout the weekend and into Monday. Instead of the traditional St. Patrick's Day parade being held on Monday - the churchs in town decided that since Sunday was Palm Sunday - and then Holy week - they would change the parade to Friday instead of Monday - but, not tell all of the folks flying down. Well - instead of 500,000 people - 250,000 showed up - the others cancelled and flew to Boston or NY where Monday would provide the Irish with their parade and frovolity. Savannah is hurting. We did our best to help them - but, the bulk of the crazy celebration went North.