That wasn't fun. (Hurricane Isaias damage)

My previous post on Cardboard History ended up being a first, and hopefully a last as well. It was published without power.. Hurricane Isaias hit the Hudson Valley hard, and we didn't escape damage. Power was out for more than 25 hours, costing us the entire contents of our fridge. A neighbor's tree snapped in half an ended up in our yard...and being without power so long, I missed an entire day of Topps Now NHL stickers. (I had scheduled the previous post, by the way)

This is my yard during the storm. 

My mom and I were sitting in the car- power was already out by this point, and it was cooler outside, and brighter too, so I went out there to read. We heard a loud cracking and it turned out the tree in the yard behind us had snapped clear in half.

I had actually been up where it fell taking pictures only about 10 minutes before. When it fell the storm had already moved on, it was no longer raining and the wind had almost died down completely.

With no power the stars seemed brighter...the entire area was blacked out so no light pollution whatsoever. This is the moon, my camera doesn't have the capability to capture stars very well.

This is taken the next morning, still without power, already starting to wilt.

So, since with my health problems I can't deal with the heat, we ended up at a local Holiday Inn. They had some interesting stuff, like a nightlight in the bathroom plug, 

a giant TV

And a really weird light.

The bathroom mirror had the lights built into it! Never saw that before. And it was in two panels on two walls.

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Here's me with the downed tree, to give it some scale.

Our spare fence piece blew down in the storm, and when I flipped it back upright several crickets came hopping out from under it. You can see one in the photo, on the second plank from the bottom.

The dual hook hanger that our bird feeder is on was supporting the entire weight of the tree.

During the outage, I read this entire book cover to cover.

The owner of the yard behind us, who owned the tree, hired a small family run tree company to remove it, and they were fast and efficient! We were so happy with them we are going to higher them to do some stuff ourselves.

It only took them about 25-30 minutes to clear it totally. 

Here it is now...

like nothing ever happened. We may have lost our suet feeder (or it may have just knocked it down when it fell, forgot to check) but we got off fairly well with yard damage. 

It turned out to be the second longest power outage of my life, at more than 25 hours. Really not fun, but at least it's in the past now.