Phew! It's over!

Hurricane Irene is now gone from my house.  Headed north.  It wasn't too bad.  Actually, by the time it hit in New England, it was down-graded to a tropical storm.  Still.  60 mile an hour winds are nothing to mess with.  We are living off of artificially generated power right now.  Power left my house just about 6 am.  I had JUST gotten up to hop into the shower and POOF.  No power.  My husband wasn't going to fire up the generator until most of wind died down but I pleaded with him to turn it on so that I can at least shower.  He needed coffee so it was a win/win for both of us.

The winds never got that bad for him to turn off the generator so we had power all day long.  But it will be off for the night.  I'm losing my lovely power at 8:30 tonight and it will get turned back on in the morning if the "real" power isn't back by then.  By my husband estimates, as he drove around the area after Irene left, it will be a week at least before power is restored to our area.  Lots of down trees, power lines and poles.  We just have lots of raking to do in the yard.  Only a few big limbs and one tree top fell.  But nothing on the out buildings, house, cars or equipment.  Chris and his dad spent some time earlier in the week cutting down all the dead trees that could fall in a big wind and do damage.  Good thing that they did.  I'm sure if they didn't, we would have it much worse.  My neighbor has a few trees that were uprooted and leaning but nothing near her house.

I didn't do any sewing though.  Didn't want to put the extra strain on the generator.  So I worked on my June birdie block.  Almost done.  Other than that, nothing.

I'm glad the weather is calmer and COOLER.  Ahhhhh, no need for the AC for the next week.  That the only good thing with this hurricane.  It brought some much cooler weather with it.

I hope that others that were in Irene's path faired as well or better than we did.

Enjoy your day!
Jen