Well, if you take my last post and add 3 days and a bunch of money spent on junk food (come on...we're not horrible parents, we did have appropriate food for the kiddo) and water and VIOLA we have a hurricane. Here's a shot of "Irene" making its way into Kinston around 8:15 am on August 26, 2011
Here's just one of the yummy delicous things we got to snack on (ps...only i eat this kind of shit)
Here's SoJack playing with a flashlight, being cute. We decided to play with flashlights after we had explained to her about 50 times why she couldn't watch Winnie the Pooh...which is exactly why, by the time another one of these emergency-type situations roll around, we WILL own a portable dvd player. And D batteries. Because apparently D batteries go just as quick as the milk and bread in Kinston. Who knew?!?
And while we were cleaning up Mom & Dad's yard, and by "cleaning up" I mean Katie and I were making Sophie a "Hobbit Hole" out of the big limbs that had fallen, Sophie was taking a capri sun break.
Man it's hard being a kid. In cute rainboots. Standing around. Getting bit by ants.
I cannot complain. We were only without power for a little over 24 hours...which was almost like 24 days. Blessed we were. When Hurrican Floyd smacked us hard back in '99, we were without power at my parents' house for almost a solid week. Not only that but we never wanted to get to Kinston so bad... This time, it wasn't nearly as bad as the city-limit folks had it. 6 days post-Irene and there are still a lot of people without electricity. Never taking it for granted again...and currently working on my "Emergency Must-Have" list.
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