Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Hurricane Irene

The next few blogs will be about our experience with Hurricane Irene.  Even though there was so much damage, we are so thankful for many things.  First and foremost - we had water!!!  Water - toilet, cold showers, dishes, cooking.  We did have 15 gallons of water ready before I found out that we had city water and I guess the city had generators for the water.  YAY!!!  We fared better than many people!  I was very thankful for my texting friends - Josiah, Sarah, Lauren and Megan.  I felt "in touch" with people for the first couple of days after the hurricane - and it was good for my sanity!  Another thing that I was thankful for was awesome family time.  I had such a good time with the girls.  We worked together during this "crisis" and everything went very smooth. 

The following pictures were taken at Ocean Beach on Sunday afternoon  - about 3pm.  I would like to note that the pictures were auto enhanced because they were extremely grey.  It was a very grey day on Sunday.  The sky was not blue at all.  I wanted you to see the magnitude of the crashing waves. :)











You can see how windy it was by Tuna's shirt (orange).


Tuna played tag with the ocean...


...and lost.



I was trying to get pictures of the girls with the waves behind them, but Gabbie was a little apprehensive.




Dedee

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