Home for the Hurricane
Well, hurricane Irene has come and gone and we’re no worse for the wear. The new sump in the basement kept things to “damp” instead of “flooded” and we didn’t lose our electricity, even though several neighbors did. Thank God for the completely illogical way they have the electric system set up.
The scary bit in this storm was that it came at night. 60-foot pines in my back-yard are within serious damaging distance of the house . . . and then there were the tornado warnings all around us. With the wind already howling and the pitch-blackness, there was no way to know if a twister could be forming. I opened the window a bit to see if I could hear the “onrushing train” sound, but all I heard was the wind in the trees and the neighbors’ generators.
So what we’re left with is a little bit of Yard clean-up and stringing some extension cords to the neighbors without power.
On to the next crisis!
