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| During Irene - lots and lots of rain... |
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| Hannah calls this "Lake Forge"...this is our hurricane parking lot...We think the vehicles are out of the "fall zone"... |
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| Pine tree fell in the back yard...I think this is the cracking sound that I heard when I terrifyingly took Burgess out to the bathroom at 9:30 pm...Scott was at work, so I was home alone with the kiddos and the dog -- and no electricity. It gets VERY dark out here. We lost power around 7:45pm. I last saw the weather/radar around 5:30 pm and thought the storm was about over, but Scott said the peak winds would happen around 7 pm. He was right. Just as it was getting dark, the wind and rain really picked up. Great. We got BATTERED. That's what happened during Hurricane Isabel 8 years ago. There was lots of praying going on in our house. It was the longest night of our lives. The kids and I were huddled in the family room and tried to sleep. Burgie wouldn't let me out of his sight -- what a great watchdog. What an awesome CREATOR and DESIGNER we worship -- it's amazing how well God designed these trees to bend and sway the way they do. Yes, some fall down, but most don't. |
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| Small gumball tree fell down... |
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| Lots of small branches came down |
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| So disappointed in our pumpkins. We started with about 70 plants and have ended up with 2. Pretty sad! Millions of squash bugs! Looks like we'll have to BUY pumpkins this year...very humbled. |
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| Hurricane preparations -- lots of water buckets (since we have a well), candles, flashlights, cooler... |
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| Thankful for the generator. |
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| We don't have gutters up yet...flooding in the basement. |
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| Clean up crew... |
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| More clean up crew |
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| Gigantic branch fell onto the barn and made a hole in the metal roof |
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| Sweet potato flower. So pretty! These plants have been easy to grow -- very tolerant of dry conditions, no bugs. We really haven't done much of anything to them. It'll be interesting to see what the sweet potatoes look like when we dig them up. |
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| Our garden got pelted. Tomatoes have fallen down. Disaster area. What the raccoons didn't get, Irene did. I can't imagine HAVING to grow our own food or else not eating in the winter. Growing a profitable vegetable garden is very hard work. We did achieve one of our goals though -- having more than enough tomatoes. ;-) ******* We are so thankful for the Lord's protection and provision. He is so good. We've already been through Hurricane Isabel (2003 -- we were out of power for 9 days and had MANY trees down - a huge one was on the roof of our last house) and Tropical Storm Gastone (2004 -- this "not a big deal" storm caused a "small" tornado to throw our neighbor's tree onto our last house). There are many very large trees near this house and we thank God that none of them fell. Today is Ashley's 12th birthday, so we went out looking for a restaurant that might be open and settled on Five Guys. When we returned home, we were very pleasantly surprised to find that the electricity was back on! Praise the Lord! It was nice to hear our children so grateful for something that we take for granted every day -- electricity -- but that we miss so much when we don't have it. During the past couple of days, we've talked about Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Little House books we've read -- how did they do it?!? We act like such big wimps today! We are very spoiled...and very blessed...Thank you, God, that you don't give us what we deserve, but rather, that You lavish us with blessings... |
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