Three in a Row....

For the past three weeks on Thursday night, as it's time to deliver the chesed food, we've had either pre-alerts or actual sirens. Last night was no different. Except it was worse. 

Ilana left to take the food with her friend Fraidy (who arrived last night to stay with us until her flight back to NY on Sunday. Or maybe to move in for a good long while. Time and El Al will tell). They had three different drop-off points and hadn't been gone long when....pre-alert. Which turned into a siren when Fraidy was dropping off cookies. She went in to the "cookie lady's mamad" (which I did once as well, but can't seem to find if I wrote a blog post about it). 

In the end, we had three sirens in a ROW (like not even an "all clear" before the next pre-alert and siren came). Even on October 7 we did not have three is a row. Thank Gd Ilana and Fraidy made it back as the third siren was going off. Talk about stressful....

Thankfully, after that we had a quiet night with no more sirens here (the person who made the meme below had one more, though):

Was at the fruit store in the mercaz this morning when another pre-alert came through. As usual, I jumped and "eek"-ed while none of the other people (five men) did much of anything. Made it through checkout (because we needed that melon and those beets! Shabbat does not take a break!) and then hung around outside the grocery store to see what would happen.

WOOOOOOOOO. Okay, follow the crowds into the store, to the back, downstairs and into their giant safe room. Saw a few people I know so that passed the time until the all-clear.

Davening for a Shabbat of safety and peace for Israel and the world.