Survivor: Maine - Special Hurricane Edition

Fell asleep to the sound of gentle rain last night, awoke this morning to a good stiff breeze and rain that was Serious. The power just blipped, right in the middle of kurlon's shower, of course. Just a flicker, though.

We have done our due diligence in preparing for Irene, cleared the plywood off the roof of the 3rd garage, cleaned up the driveway and most of the debris that could potentially blow around, and parked the (now twice repaired) HiHy in the 3rd garage bay. It's snuggled up with all the motorcycles, but at least any trees that fall shouldn't come down on top of it again.

Gotten at least 2 inches of rain. The dog dish on the front porch is full. I had meant to put a deeper pot out last night, but didn't. I'm sure there's a bucket around somewhere that is catching plenty of rain.

Galahad is a little tweaked, Lancelot is his usual oblivious self, as far as I can tell. Sam and my Jade tree that live on the front porch in the summer are now inside in the front hallway. Sam just got leaves back on him, for goodness sakes, I'm not going to risk losing him if I can help it!

Rain all day, then wind tonight, I guess is the current prediction. We are on the edge of a 12+ inch rainfall, according to the Weather Channel. Glad I am that we live on top of a mountain; water flows downhill, usually. Tomorrow's forecast: sunny and 79. Love it.

Survivor: Maine - Special Hurricane Edition: Wrap-up

It rained. It was windy. All done now.

Never lost power (few blips here and there), no trees down, leaves all over the place, will have to try and prop up the Quinoa tomorrow... :(

Tweaked-out kitty is calm now.

Glad it was a fairly boring hurricane from where we are. 4-5 inches of rain, max, I think. The wind has even mostly stopped, though it may still gust tonight.

Dinner out, since I didn't wanna cook. Not too much destruction around, though there were a few trees uprooted and broken branches on the way to the restaurant.