Strangest week ever

I'm fairly certain that everyone who lives up and down the east coast just experienced the strangest week ever. My own personal part of that was certain medical procedures I had done followed by what everyone else experienced: earthquake and hurricane on the east coast in the same week. The earthquake was no big deal...I was lying on the couch and then wiggle wiggle wiggle. I thought I had lost my mind but then realized what happened. The only other time I had felt one was in Panama. My dh didn't feel it as he was driving at the time, but Schmoo felt it at his playdate. Strange!

It wasn't until I turned on the weather channel to check out the earthquake info that I realized that we were in the path of Irene. I called honey and asked him to pick up some provisions at sam's club just in case. Sure enough it became clear that we would be hit. We were not in the mandatory evac area and since it didn't look like it was going to be worse than a Cat 1 we just prepared and stayed where we were.

Here was the prep:

the junky food part of the supplies


bathtubs full of water, just in case.


spent two days cooking and eating the fridge food

moved all the patio plants in


Here comes the storm...


Then it hit. It wasn't bad at all. Bout 24 hours of wind and rain. We lost power for 8 hours. We are so thankful that that was all that happened.

The "aftermath": a bit of flooding in our community


And a downed tree or two.

We were so blessed. It could have been a lot worse, but it was very mild. Thank you for your prayers in our behalf :)