The night before Hurricane Irene hit, the wind was blowing with a fury! I was awoken by a loud THUMP hitting the back of our house, and it was very possible to have been a whole tree. I could not sleep with the wind. Sam was sleeping, and Kaj was sleeping, and I wondered how they could sleep through this. I thought about waking Sam a few times. When we got up Sunday morning, we had already lost power. But, had heard the storm had been down graded, and was suspected to hit around noon. I guess it did. It was raining a lot, and kinda windy, but as far as hurricanes go...I like Irene alright.
We faired pretty well in the ole storm, other than the fact that we had to live without power a few days. (see picture above) haha - this is actually not a tree from our neighborhood. The power turned back on at 8:10 this morning. It was beautiful. I clapped and celebrated and Kaj just kinda looked at me and barely cracked a smile.
I would like to thank everyone who spent more time than they may have wanted to talking to me on the phone.
I am very grateful for power. I am grateful to blow dry my hair this morning, I'm happy to hear the sound of laundry spinning from the other room, for a fridge that can preserve food.
This is our basil plant- we named "pesty" for the pesto it has supplied us with, survived the storm.
The only possible casualty in our home is our fish...who is not dead yet, but he is sure not looking so good.
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