Hurricane Irene

Just wanted to give a quick glimpse of what Irene did to our neck of the woods. It's always hard to know how anxious you should be, but we are glad it is over. We woke up to electricity and no major damage, to which we are so very thankful. Unfortunately those closer to campus are without electricity, like Roberts Tenant. Hopefully they won't be too long without.

Our family did have a slumber party in the one bedroom living room side for the night. Mostly we were concerned about tornadoes and not knowing. Isaac's bedroom windows leaked last year when we had 30-40 mph winds, so I didn't want to worry about how bad they were leaking while he slept in there. I slept better knowing we were all together.

Thanks to all for your thoughts, prayers and phone calls!


Yesterday we brought all the playground toys into our basement. This morning the basement was about 3-4 inches deep in water, you can see why from the picture below this next one...

One of the two holes allowing water to pour into our basement.

The bus stop. Our apt is just their to the left, you can see two of our windows. Praise God all these trees stayed upright!


This is the golf course on our way to the bridge

Getting ready to cross the canal path bridge


Joshua has a long stick that is touching the water. I'm going to guess the water is about 12 inches from touching the bridge.

This was taken looking to the right just after you cross the bridge. Anyone up for a jog?!?


again, this is to the right of the bridge

after you cross the bridge, looking left

this is the golf course behind the canal path, typically the greens don't flood, not this time!

looking north of the bridge, you can see the tree branches from the side of the path, now touching the water

but by my front door, the flowers survived (we put my window boxes in the basement)...

and that makes this momma happy...end of tour.