Come on Irene

Things finally got back to normal after the random earthquake and all 5 of its aftershocks, when reports of Hurricane Irene started to dominate the airwaves. By the time Friday rolled around, the local news casts had 24-hr coverage of the impending storm. 


Warnings about power outages, water outages, public transportation disruptions etc etc. D.C. had not been hit with a hurricane in decades and none as big as Irene (or so they thought). With all the hype, we briefly toiled with preparing for disaster. We discussed getting bottled water and some canned goods, but quickly concluded that if things got to that point, we would just leave the city and head to Illinois a few days earlier. We had a few life chores to accomplish on Saturday morning, before settling in for the storm. 

Our main priority was getting Mo's hair cut. Her coat grows into her full,thick, wool-like coat and we wanted her to be looking good for the wedding. 

Mo doesn't like storms and we were nervous when the groomer didn't finish until 2:00pm. The early part of the hurricane had hit D.C. and we had to pick her up in some serious rain. Mo did fine and was ready to get back home. She is used to getting approx 16-20 hrs of sleep per day, so having to go to the groomers all morning put her in a grumpy mood.

With Mo returned to us and most of our chores done, we returned home to weather the storm.  With a "if you have lemons, make lemonade" attitude, we embarked on another pickling effort.  We also watched a few movies and stayed indoors throughout the evening, however the rain and wind didn't really pick up until 10pm or so. We were very fortunate to not lose power or water and sustained no damage to our apartment. The worst of the storm hit during the night and caused most of the damage in the Virginia and Maryland suburbs. Overall, our hurricane experience was not bad. It was more like a strong storm, with no thunder or lightning. 

Sunday was beautiful and it was nice to be outside.  We mostly hung around the house in case any more natural disasters decided to show up.  Ben also made some homemade bread.

Monday night was a big night for softball.  We didn't have a game, but it was the year-end tournament bracket selection event.  Our team ended up ranked 27th out of over 100 teams, which was a vast improvement over last year's 90th place finish (pre Kelly & Ben).  Our bracket draw was pretty good.  We will see how the tournament turns out in a couple weeks.