The big news here on the east coast lately has of course been hurricane Irene. From the beginning, our area was forecast to be directly in her path, although she would only be a tropical storm when she got here. We got ready for inches of rain and serious winds. Kelson spent all weekend on the ship instead of doing fun things with me because of problems caused by the hurricane further down the coast that were messing with some of the systems on his ship. That made our last weekend here in Maine pretty lame. Kelson's ship almost had to sail away five days early, which made me really sad. We felt very blessed when he was able stay. We were also blessed on Sunday when Irene weakened and moved to the west, missing our area for the most part. Sunday was gloomy, windy, and a little bit rainy, but it definitely wasn't the huge storm we were afraid of. The big problem around here was power outages, and when we lost our power on Sunday afternoon we were sure we would be in the dark for a long time.
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| Since we couldn't heat up any food, we ate watermelon. As I was cutting it up so we could eat it like civilized people, Kelson dug in to half of the watermelon with a spoon. We love watermelon! It tastes like summer. |
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| We were surprised and happy when the power company showed up to restore our power after only about an hour. |
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| Still, we were a little bit disappointed that we didn't get to take advantage of any of our hurricane preparations, so we ate dinner by lamplight anyway. In the photo it looks like we lit the lamp when it was broad daylight, but it was in fact dark. |
I suppose we can't exactly say that we are hurricane survivors, but living in the potential path of a hurricane is definitely something neither of us have ever experienced growing up on the west coast. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of those who had much more devastating encounters with Irene.
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