Hurrican Irene

this was a crazy weekend. Lisa and I spent all day saterday preping for the hurrican. I got the gen preped, we cleaned out the vehicles I case we needed to evac, I prepped the sump pump' I even went to my motherinlaws and clean out her gutters for her. Then we hunkered down and waited for the hurrican. it kinda seemed bleh. Sunday morning came from our house it seemed like all we got was rain and some wind. we did lse power for about an hour around noon giving me a chance to see how well my gen does powering the fridge freezer and a few other things... it worked great and I'm glad I made the purchase a few years ago. later in the afternoon lisa and I took a quick drive to see if she could get a coffee. this is when we saw how badly the storm had hit others... just 50 yards from our house power lines where down and all the houses behind ours on wilder St were without power. we heard someone else's generator running. as we kept going all we saw was devistated trees. you couldn't go 50 yards without seeing something down, broke, or crushed by damaged trees. our house, yard, basement, everything seemed untouched by this storm. I hope everyone else faired the same