Hurricane Irene

It was much hyped here in Boston, but we ended up escaping the brunt of Irene (just a tropical storm by the time it hit us). Although our weather forecasters predicted much gloom and doom, we got away with a whole lot of rain, and winds of about 50 mph. Not too bad. We also lucked out and kept our power the whole time.

Since we had to hunker down all day Sunday with our outdoor furniture moved inside, amongst many flashlights, bottles of water, and hurricane rations, we spent most of our time...

Playing play-doh:


Burning off some energy with indoor scooting:


Finding novel ways to enjoy our hurricane flashlights:




And watching the movie "Cars" more times that I care to admit:



And after all that....this was about the extent of the damage on our street:




(I exaggerate slightly - a huge tree actually fell at Henry's school just down the road and just missed the building. Plus, hundered of other trees all around town are down and a lot of people still without power. We got lucky!)