This and That: Hurricane Clean-up

The tale of two hurricanes: Irene and Lee. These named storms were not twins, no hurricane is created equally. Irene was windy (55 mph sustained winds, gusting upwards of 60 mph), three inches of rain (we needed it) and a 5-hour power outage. Lee was a slow-moving storm with hardly a breeze, warm, humid air and 15 inches of rain over three days.

That's the short story. The long story is that Irene (not our cat) broke trees, limbs and branches, scattered leaves everywhere and watered the yard. Lee flooded the basement at our old house and broke some limbs, too. The boys spent the night inside four nights in a row. Warm but too wet to sleep outside, in my opinion.

We had made some headway on the burn pile after Irene, but now with Lee it looks like we burned nothing. A pending bonfire is certainly in our future.