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Take that Irene!
Needless to say we survive hurricane Irene. Friday afternoon she started to roll in and the clouds looked pretty awesome. On Saturday there was just a lot of wind and rain but nothing really crazy. I went to my hair appointment and the power flickered a few times while I was there but it never went out.
That afternoon Matt and I pretty much just vegged out since there wasn’t much to do. We only lost power once for maybe 2 minutes. What’s funny is it wasn’t really raining or even that windy when the power went out. Later that afternoon once things had calmed down, we walked around our neighborhood. This is when we got to see the damage.
Our street sign was knocked down. When, neither of us are sure.
Tree limbs from the neighbors tree.
As you can see it was really not bad at all here. We were right on the edge of the storm. Of course many places to the east of us did not fair so well. Lots of flooding and damage. Roads washed out, thousands are still without power. I’m sure the clean up effort from this storm will take a long time. But we can be thankful it wasn’t bad here.
~k
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Foto Friday = Car shopping
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. This week has been shittastic so yeah.
Hurricane Irene is quickly approaching so Matt and I took this opportunity to go and test drive a few cars this afternoon. Originally we had planned to only hit Kia since it’s right down the street. But the clouds were looking a little ominous and it was starting rain but over towards Capital it didn’t look quite as bad. Hmmm, what to do, stay by the house or check out the cars we were really interested in? Yeah we decided to drive over to Capital and check out Audi and Infinity. Audi was our first stop since Matt knows a few of the sales guys there. We drove the Q5 which is a really nice SUV and pretty similar to the A4 Matt currently has. Next we headed over to Infinity to test drive the EX35. I personally think this car is very luxurious, even more so then the Q5. But after driving both Matt and I agreed the Q5 was a nicer drive and ride. It is also a heftier payment.
We still have several more cars on our list to check out. The Ford Edge, the Kia SUV’s and the we already test drove the Acura RDX last weekend. I have a feeling some of our decision will be based on how much we get for the A4. If the money is right who knows what will happen, or what our decision will be. The goal is to get Matt a nice car for now and possibly something for me to drive once we have a kid.
Also I’m hoping to get some good pics of Irene this weekend. I’m currently charging my camera batteries. The clouds this afternoon were pretty awesome and I’m hoping to get some cool pics over the weekend.
~k
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Hurricanes and earthquakes oh my!
What started as a pretty blah Tuesday quickly turned around after lunch. I mean I managed to drop the top half of my english muffin on the floor in the break room at work, dammit! And of course the AC wasn’t working either. Yeah I figured today would suck. Boy was I in for a surprise.
Turns out hurricane Irene could be headed our way this weekend. Admittedly I pay little to no attention to the news but while I was listening to the radio on my way to work, the guy mentioned Irene so I decided to see what all the fuss was about. Turns out, this morning anyway, she looked like she was headed straight for Raleigh this weekend. WOW! So Matt and I chatted over IM and decided it might be a good idea to run out at lunch and pick up a few supplies. I ran to my new fave, Carolina Pottery, to pick up candles and Matt ran to Lowe’s to get batteries and stuff.
I was actually pretty excited to blog about my first trip to pick up hurricane supplies. I’ve never actually gone to get supplies for hurricanes even though I went through Opal in Alabama and Erin in Texas. Granted neither of them were really bad where I was, but Opal did knock the power out for a while. It was pretty cool to watch the sky turn green when the lightning would strike. {Apparently the algae from the ocean made the sky look green in the lightning.}
Anyhoo, right before 2pm I heard a few of my co-workers talking about the building. I wasn’t really paying attention but the gist was the building moved. Right around this time Matt IM’s me to ask if we just had an earthquake? WHAT?!!? I didn’t feel anything but I knew people around me were talking. I piped up that my husband was in Durham and he felt it. This immediately began talks of an earthquake. I begin to check FB {because you know it doesn’t happen if it isn’t on FB} and sure enough statuses started popping up regarding an earthquake. Soon we realized epicenter was actually north of Richmond VA. People all along the east coast were updating their statuses regarding the earthquake. It was felt as far north as Toronto. I’m not sure how far south they felt it though.
Talks of earthquakes continued for a good part of the afternoon. I just want to say that I am BEYOND bummed that I didn’t feel the stupid earthquake. 🙁 However there was a small earthquake while I was in Alabama and I remember that one so I don’t feel like I completely missed out but still!
~k
