Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Watching for Irene

All day Saturday we kept seeing signs about closings due to hurricane Irene.  The freeway from Boston to Etna had constant signs to prepare for the storm.  On Friday Irene's path was to go through the middle of New Hampshire as a category 1 hurricane.  By Saturday it was still category 1 for Boston but had been downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it was to hit New Hampshire Sunday afternoon.  Kristi was worried we would loose power.  They have a generator for lights but not water so we made sure we were ready to be without water. Sunday morning the projected path had moved westerly so it was over Vermont instead of New Hampshire.  The trip to Church was very rainy and there were limbs down on the roads making them almost impassable.  During the first hour the lights blink three times and then seemed to be fine.  But as the day continued it became obvious Irene passed with minor damage.  The road home had a couple of washed out shoulders but that was it.  Vermont however took the brunt of the storm with the worst flooding in history.  On Monday we watched news reports of old covered bridges being washed away and homes and businesses being destroyed.  It was sad to see these century old bridges being destroyed and businesses lost particularly as we had seen some of them on earlier sightseeing trips with Kristi.
Fire for Some-mores

The pictures are just a reminder of better times.





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