Hurricane Irene

By now most have heard about Miss Irene, she came, conquered, left us without power for 6 days (my folks for 8) and boy did she do some damage.  Thank GOD that none of that damage was to our houses.  This was the first time, even for me, ms. east coaster, that I experienced no power for so long.  Paul and I had a tree fall across our road a few houses down and when it fell it literally felt like it was on our roof, very scary. My parents had the worst of it all.  Two trees fell across, blocking their driveway completely.  They also witnessed the water from the Long Island Sound literally roll down their street, luckily it receded as fast as it came in. Probably the saddest part was seeing our favorite parking lot that overlooked the water torn to shreds, it looked like a tornado came through ripping the pavement completely off.  We played a lot of board games, told ghost stories, ate, drank, took a lot of walks and even pulled together a combined garage sale between our house and Grandma R's. Sha got a big kick out of wearing Grandma R's raincoat since it matched Grandpa R's, very cute.  All good but all exhausting.  Below are pics of what Irene did.