Waiting on Sandy

Tree that came down a few weeks ago

How do you prepare for Sandy also known as Frankenstorm?  From what I could tell the major prep began around Thursday.  The stores were stormed with crazed shoppers in search of water, batteries, flashlights,milk, bread and generators.  Lines at the gas stations were record setting.  I guess the big storm the end of June and first of July, where so many lost power is still fresh on peoples mind.

Generator house 

We cleaned out our 5gallen water jugs and refilled them with fresh water.  Outside we secured the deck furniture, mowed the grass and raked leaves.  We are also the new owners of a generator, power does go out around here fairly often.  We had to throw out all our refrigerator and freezer food after the last storm.  The lanterns have been gathered and put on our kitchen table easily accessible.  Cell phone batteries are charged and our pantry is stocked.  Now we wait.

So today is the day.  Oh no we woke up to no power. Rain is steady but not torrential and the wind is more of a breeze so why is the power already out?  This is definably not the start we had hoped for.  Glenn pulls the generator out of its box and decides breakfast out and a Home Depot run is in order.  Armed with a full tummy, extra gas (take that any way you want) and more extension cords we return  home to find the power back on.  Yea!!!  Glenn starts building some kind of structure outside for the generator and I iron, clean the kitchen and check Facebook, Twitter and local news.  We have both have our priority's LOL.

Everyone stay safe and enjoy some family time playing games and carving pumpkins.  I will write an up date later.