Irene is almost here

We are now without power went out about 6am and the worst is yet to come.  Guess she will make landfall around 10am.  Couple more hours to go.
The pic is of my view not to many branches down or leaves just a river flowing down my street.

Preparing for Irene

We have been busy preparing for Hurricane Irene arrival sometime tonight into tomorrow.  She is to make landfall somewhere around New Haven (at least that is the last I heard last night).. We have gotten the yard picked up, we just have to tie down the table and grill and i think the pool shed.  I have prepared some foods that we can eat if we lose power.  I need to do some more cooking and preparing today so we have a little more.

If sears gets their order in today we will be picking up our generator, they are trying to get an emergency order in and we placed an order for one.  I'm making sure we have enough frozen water bottles to help keep the freezer cold just in case we don't get the generator.  We have part of our 1/6 of a cow in there along with a lot of other meat.

Connecticut doesn't get many hurricanes, from my understanding they get a good one about every 20 years or so and well we are do.  I believe the last one was in '85 and her name was Gloria.  I was not living on the East coast during that one.  I was in IN, we only had to worry about blizzards and tornados.  :)