Hurricane Sandy aftermath

Well, we survived the hurricane pretty well (WAY better than some people in NY and NJ did).  Surprisingly we kept our power and only lost our cable and internet overnight.  I was following our town reporter on Twitter and boy, was she good about posting updates to the minute so I knew exactly when the bottom of my street flooded to impassable and when a tree at the top of my street blew over (almost into a house!) and when and where the rest of the trees/wires/poles in my neighborhood came down.  I had no work for two days as the public schools were closed so that the town could clean up and restore power.

We didn't go outside during the storm, but I did take a picture out the window.  Look at how much the little tree in the distance is bending in the wind!

After the storm was over, we took a walk around the neighborhood to see the damage, and there was quite a bit.

lots of leaves in the backyard

leaves stuck to the side of the house from the wind

pretty much the extent of the damage in our yard

giant tree almost in a kitchen window at the top of our street

After walking our neighborhood we took a walk down to the pond to see how it fared.  It was such a gorgeous day out that you would never tell a hurricane came through just the day before (except for the monster trees down)!!

gorgeous

lots of water came through here

I jumped in for scale

Although we're lucky to have survived as well as we did there are lots of people who didn't and we're thinking about them and hope things get sorted out as quickly as can be!