Go away, mean Irene!

Alright.........in the weather-induced terror that's gripping the nation, you have probably heard about the hurricane Irene. In fact, I'm willing to bet all my worldly possesions that unless you are a bozo or a little baby, you have definitely heard about Irene, but in which case you wouldn't even be reading my blog so that doesn't even make sense. ANYWAY I'm posting this to show you pictures of the horrendous damage that it did as it struck Long Island.









.....................................Ready? Deep breath.....

Hehe, just my little laugh. But seriously, it wasn't just castle-in-the-fish-tank damage, although the hurricane was diluted to a tropical storm by the time it reached us. We actually got a couple of power lines, and three or four trees in my neighborhood.It was estimated that about three thousand households on LI lost power during last night's bout of rain and gusts of wind, and thousands were evacuated to higher grounds. So not everyone was as lucky as we were in terms of destruction, and now let's have a moment of silence for the hundreds of thousands of trees, birds and squirrels whom they and their homes suffered grievous damage.



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Thank you. Just for instance, Ben and I were walking around, looking for damage to take pictures of in in the neighborhood, we came across a dead baby bird in the street. It had probably blown out of its nest only a few hours before we came across it. It hardly had any feathers, it was mostly skin and bones, and it was only about two inches long. I estimated it at a few days old and we gave it a decent burial at the foot of a towering beech tree using a stick, three beech leaves and a white pebble. But on a happier note, all the evacuated families can come back very soon because we got mostly wind and hardly any rain, so there was almost no  flooding. But we shouldn't forget all the other destruction, of course. And so here are the pictures of REAL damage.






Brace yourselves!

                 So this is a thankful post-- I'm glad that not much damage was done, and that things could have been much, much, worse.





           P.S. : I was wrong about the flooding.......there were ducks swimming in the road downtown today. So I guess even hurricanes can be beneficial.



                                         At least for ducks.