Irene came and left... and we survived.

2 Natural (could be) disasters in one week!  Wow! Maybe we can get a break this next week and go back to normal weather.  Wouldn't that be nice?!

Irene came in to our area as a Category 1 hurricane on Saturday and left as a Tropical Storm in the wee hours of the night/ early Sunday morning.  Lots and lots of rain and some wind... at times very strong wind!  Alexandria, Virginia (which is just off post for us) had a rainfall accumulation of 4.69 inches and there were wind gusts of 60 mph at Reagan National Airport.

We were most concerned with a tree falling on the house or power lines and then leaving us in the dark.  However, our electricity only flickered a couple of times and otherwise stayed on the entire time.  And luckily and most importantly trees did fall, but not on our house. 

Just before 7 this morning we woke up to the sound of chainsaws... and this was the view from our front door.  Sorry it is kinda dark... it was pretty early.  This tree fell across the road, as was the sight all over Fort Belvoir.  Lots of trees down on roads, cars, fences... but all houses I believe were spared. 

This was our first Hurricane... one for the books.