Hurricane Irene……

Well she’s been & gone; like an obnoxious party-crasher, she made her presence known and then hightailed it out of town leaving a huge mess in her wake.

It ended up making land as a cat 1 storm, a far cry from the cat 3-4 forecasters had been predicting.  Still the storm managed to cause at least 4 deaths, flood several areas, bring down trees, power lines, and rip roofs from houses.  

We got lucky here.  Very very lucky!  We lost power, but only for a few hours.  Big Sis & her hubby had some tree limbs down, but compared to neighboring streets their damage was minimal. 

But Hurricane Irene caused at least one good thing to happen this weekend……she gave me time to claim my rightful place as Monopoly champion!

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