Hurricane Irene

It's nice to experience two decent-sized natural disasters in a row and not have much to say about them. The museum decided on Friday afternoon to close for both Saturday and Sunday. That left me plenty of time to prep for the hurricane all day Saturday. We brought in the potted plants, put away everything in the yard, then tied up the trash cans. That didn't last much past noon, so allowed for a nice recovery nap for four hours or so. Penny even joined me briefly, taking the first nap she actually slept for in the previous couple of weeks. Sunday dawned plenty rainy, but without the expected 70-100mph winds I had prepped for. By afternoon, the rain had disappeared, but there were those winds. That meant we stayed indoors pretty much the whole day. Even though we weren't doing much of anything, it was a very tiring day. I tried the same nap move that had worked on Saturday, but apparently Penny just wanted to keep me from napping, not join me.

We seriously lucked out overall. No major wind damage. No basement flooding. We live right across the street from the evacuation center, so we weren't affected by street flooding either. It was perhaps a little disappointing, given the buildup, but I'm all for disappointing. I feel bad for the folks still without power almost a week later. I'm glad we weren't among them because we definitely didn't pack enough food, etc. for any length of power failure. Some lessons learned for next time. Hope everyone else fared reasonably well as well.