Better Together

Sunday, August 28, 2011

in the wind

We all needed to get outside, so we decided to check out the wind and run up and down the street. Graham got to run around and we got to check out the neighborhood. You can see leave debris on our street and all the trees are standing, so we are very blessed. Our basement is drying nicely and Brett is getting all the water logged stuff out right now. We are just tired and getting a little crazy being cooped up indoors but the running around outside helped. We finally turned off weather coverage too, so that helps I think. We are still having a pretty good bout of wind right now, but the sun is out and we are doing great. Getting things back to normal....slowly but surely. And we are really in the mood for Chinese food and our Chinese place is open and making food so we are pumped for some good eats later!

tropical storm

In case you hadn't heard, Hurricane Irene is now a tropical storm and moving her way right up the coast. We have not yet had a chance to get down to the basement; we are waiting on someone to take a nap to assess the situation. We just organized toys into new bins, which Graham is now taking out and putting on the floor. Sigh; we have so much work to do, and little energy to do it. The water in the wall seems to be the same, but we took off all the pictures and took all the frames off the fireplace just to be safe. We did find one frame was ruined, but the picture was fine, thank goodness. That is all I have for now. Just windy in our area.

update on Hurricane

Ok, so our basement is how we left it last night. Water logged...but our sump pump is still kicking it. Now, we have the wind to contend with, and we have this for most of the day. So we are not out of the woods yet. It also looks like we got some water in our living room, above our fireplace. There are a few places where you can see water dripped down and it created a bubble under the paint. Something new we have never had before.

Graham is great, as talky as ever and Brett asked him to get his muscles out. He is ready to go, so we figured we would give him the basement to clean up first. He does have all that energy :D. And he is wearing his super Graham pajamas so he does have an edge. I am wearing my normal pajamas, which don't give me any extra energy. Maybe I can wear his cape?

update on water

Having a bit of a lull from the rain right now...waiting on the next round to come. Still 6 hours until storm is here... I don't know how our basement will make it. Power has been flickering off and on a bit but still holding strong. We are only using what we need now...hoping for the best, but feeling really deflated. We knew this would happen, but it all happened so fast. We have water in the basement in places that we have never had water before, and since we had put most of our stuff in those locations, we now have a lot of really wet stuff. We even got our dryer up and onto something, otherwise, it would be in water. We are dong fine though, safe and getting ready to sleep. Graham is a trooper, holding strong with Wembley underneath him. He is doing great and I am sure he will get us up early to watch the hurricane once it hits early this morning. For now, good night all.