Hurricane Irene, Part Two

Tabernacle Road, Post-Hurricane

Here, thanks to a quasi-cooperative laptop that allowed me to upload pictures, are a few more shots from Hurricane Irene.

Thanks, Laptop.  I'll resist the urge to toss you in the creek for at least one more day.

These photos are from my post-hurricane, pre-power-reinstated jaunt last Sunday.

Thinking I might like to take a trip to the beach, I headed down Tabernacle Road only to be met with a very familiar sight: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink flooded roads.

Still, the flooding wasn't nearly as bad as other storms we've endured.

After I had power enough to charge my cell phone battery, I texted my high school classmate Johnny Pugh who lives down Bavon, which after so much as a good thunderstorm can be underwater--for weeks days:

CBW:  "Do I need to send Coast Guard search and rescue to Bavon or are you OK down there?"

Johnny Pugh:  (crickets) No response.

CBW:  Figured he had no power.  Or that he couldn't receive texts while donning that pesky emergency scuba gear. 

Next day, Johnny Pugh called to report that all was fine down there at the other end of the county unless you count having to use a sump pump in your yard just to get in your driveway not fine, and less hearty types just might.

Below are some shots from the Court House area.  Since nobody only one person from this country Mathews reads this blog, I should explain that our downtown area is known as the Court House.

Some of the Court House establishments had really prepared.

With all due respect, this will always be Foster's Department Store vs. the Halcyon building.
Some of us staunchly resist struggle with the concept of change.
But we're not talking about that.
We're admiring the hurricane adornments and admonitions.

Richardson's had sandbags to block what is normally a flood through  the main drag.
Check out the new sidewalk seating defined by that  recently constructed black fence.
Oh, and there's a puddle of water there in the foreground. 

Best Value, my favoritest grocery store, parked a trailer out front to protect their Shurfine products windows.
(Favoritest is so a word.)

This is Ridgefield Road, where I usually go jogging.
(Usually = Sometimes, maybe twice a  month once a week.)
Lots of leaves and brush on the ground, but no trees down.

Click here for this week's Gazette Journal which has way more factual more information on last weekend's storm.


p.s. Welcome to September.