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When my last blog ended, I was all prepped and ready with my flashlight, bottled water, IPod and Chunky candy bar waiting for Irene to arrive while I listened to Dexy’s Midnight Runners asking Irene (or was it “Eileen”) to arrive already. Well the storm has now passed so I thought I would tell everyone how it went.

Starting Friday afternoon and STILL going on now, every local channel has been having non-stop coverage of the preparation for the storm and now about it’s after effects. Since I had no idea if I was about to be facing my impending doom or not, I did what most people would do in that situation……ordered some Chinese take out (I highly recommend sweet and sour chicken to ease the pain of a possible oncoming disaster) followed by what I always seem to do in my spare time….went online. For awhile there I thought I had received the banhammer on this here site you are reading this on right now but later found out they just decided to perform some upgrades that messed everything up for awhile. Please, wasn’t one possible disaster yesterday enough for me??? Sheesh! I believe I have a few gray hairs now mixed in with all of the red after yesterday alone, I tell ya!

While it was overcast all day, we were suddenly bombarded with torrential rain and gusty winds at about 7PM.  Like the trooper I am, in my best effort to share my own personal storm experience with all of you, I grabbed my camera and ran outside to see what I could get a picture of. This was my result:

Yes, I know, it SUCKS, doesn’t it? Can’t see a thing, can ya? Well, neither could I and even though I wanted to be able to show all of you some of my firsthand experience of the infamous Irene, I wasn’t NUTS enough to stay outside for more than a few seconds. Soon after the storm started, we lost just about every channel from our satellite TV service except for one……the Style Network. So while the storm was brewing outside, all that was available to watch on the boob tube was “Tia and Tamara”, a special on transgender children, and the “SuperNanny”. Great gosh ah mighty wasn’t Irene painful enough??? As the night went on, the winds kept picking up and the lights started flickering so going to bed and pulling the covers over my head seemed to be the best option. By 9AM this morning, the eye of the hurricane was over us and by the time it passed, Hurricane Irene was then downgraded to a tropical storm. The worst was thankfully over.

We wound up getting about 7 inches of water in our basement, which is being pumped out as we speak, and this was the damage that I found outside.

Nothing to complain about……considering just how bad it could have been. Needless to say, we were very VERY lucky.

I wrote this blog on the humorous side because I believe a bit of humor helps to counteract stress but in all seriousness, I want to thank everyone for your concern, your good thoughts, and your prayers. It meant more to me than you could ever know.  All of you are the best. Thank you again <3