You, Me and Irene….

Well, power was restored to our house last night thanks to the hard-working men and women of Dominion Power.  WHOOO!! 

Ironic that You, Me and Irene was the movie playing on FX all Saturday while Hurricane Irene blew through.   Not that we watched it, but so I heard from the people who never.lost.power. during the storm. 

Anyway, we made it through Irene with no real damage to the house, or the pool (very important you know).  We thought we just had a lot of limbs down in the back of the house, but after pulling those out yesterday afternoon, turns out that we lost two tops off of trees that we are going to have to chainsaw out of there as soon as we get our hands on a chainsaw. 

I have some videos of the storm coming through…which I cannot figure out how to upload (help! savvy blogger friends!), but here are some pictures of the storm and the mess it left. 

Sky Friday evening

Our backyard after:

 

Shaner working on cleanup

And Trevor had branches of his own to help with! 

Yes, I am fully aware that my son is running around outside in his skivvies….it is close to 90 degrees, we have no power, and we are potty training.  He was as happy as he could be given the conditions…I own the underwear wearing action. 

Our debris pile, is taller than I am….and there is more to come.