Welcome to the Dark Side

"Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both. "

~Anderson Cooper

Life at our house for 5 days

Hurricane Irene slams into the East Coast, Aug 28 2011
Photo by NASA

If you're wondering why the blog has stalled in silence this past week, you can blame Irene.  Hurricane Irene. 

Sunday morning, August 28th, we were expecting her and lost power about 6 a.m. just as we were getting up, curious to watch the storm the media had hyped all week.  Watching out the window, it didn't seem too bad, really.  The action seemed to wrap up mid-afternoon, so we went for a walk around the neighborhood.

Tree down

Tree down across the road (one of many!)

Snapped telephone pole

Ka-POW!  This tree looks like it exploded!

Tree on a power line, (the bugger!!!)

Now that's torque, Baby!

Still windy by the ocean

We lost power at 6 a.m. on Sunday, and it was not restored until 2 a.m. Friday.  FIVE WHOLE DAYS....Lordy.  Wandered into Panera on Monday morning for coffee, because of all things....I NEED coffee....real-good-coffee, or I get cranky, I admit it.  But when I read in the paper what the folks in upstate New York and Vermont were going through with all the flooding, I knew we had it easy comparatively and that we should just suck it up and not complain.  I tried really hard to stay positive, but by Wednesday I was starting to lose it.   SO happy to be back with you :-).