I was up all night - its like the woods were alive - branches, twigs, pine cones - anything that could be blown by the wind rattled my house - sounded like a mortar attack - finally fell asleep around 5 only to be woken by my son at 7:00. He survived unscathed except for a huge branch that snapped off his front tree and blocked the road – he said a snow plow came through and pushed it off the road.
There is a huge branch that snapped off from the woods and landed on my fence - fence is okay though - damn that man does good work! I went back to bed and was woken by a huge crash on the roof over my head - another branch came down and hit the upper roof and then snapped in half and I saw it bounce off the lower roof and into my gardens - scared the hell out of the cat and me! I thought I lost my bathroom! Everything looks okay though except for the branch that is still up on the roof - will take care of that when things calm down –
All in all - I would say we were very lucky (I never lost power!) and a beautiful white egret just landed on the tree over my aunt's house - never saw one of those away from the beach before which tells me how bad the flooding must be but he seems quite happy to be sitting way up there checking things out - took pictures of him flapping his wings - hope they come out okay - and now I see a hummingbird - the birds are returning - I've missed them!
