Irene is coming to town.

At least that is what the weather forecasters are predicting.  Even though it looks like she will be down-graded to a tropical storm by the time she hits us, it is still serious business.  Really, in Connecticut we are normally in the snow business.  Yes occasionally we get the tornado, or hurricane but it’s just not something we do regularly.

The last significant hurricane we had here (that I remember) was Gloria back in 1985.  We were without power for a week.  A week.  Seven days.  168 hours give or take.  Thankfully we were able to leave our homes and with the neighborhood effort, we somehow managed to maintain a semblance of clean.

I was reminded of another hurricane we had after Gloria, but it didn’t make that big of an impact on me, because I don’t remember it.

So we are battening down the hatches in preparation for the big deal.

What have we done?

The puppies were walked first thing this morning, there is a good probability that we may not be able to walk tomorrow, in which case I will be thinking of games we can play. 🙂

Everything that was on the deck, that could be moved inside has been.

Anything that can’t be moved inside has been strapped down.

At the advice of the weather channel, we have filled some jugs along with plastic bags with water.  These are tucked nicely into our freezer.

 

We have a lot of large trees around the house, specifically over the bedroom. So we have decided if necessary we will sleep in my scrapbook/craft room and to that end we have set up make-shift sleeping areas.

We are as prepared as we can be.

If you are on the East Coast, we hope you are too.

Be safe.

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