Sitting here with the generator pumping and the internet hanging by a thread, my husband and I are sleeping in the dining room tonight because there is a giant evergreen that is looming in our backyard over our bedroom. It is a healthy tree, but after Hurricane Irene took out one of our other large, also healthy, trees last year, I’m not taking any chances.

It’s a nice tree though, hopefully it will be OK! (plus, ya know, hopefully the house will be OK). I’m not believing all the flooding going on in NYC and the coast areas… luckily the Rockaway River isn’t expecting record levels this time.

From the weather channel!

Also, how awesome is the weather in NJ the last two days? PERFECT “fall is coming” weather. Last two nights we were perfect for open window sleeping, and the AC finally got a break.

Here is a video my husband made. It’s pretty nuts. Rockaway mall was right in the center of the most severe part of the storm. By lack of leaves and branches in the road on the drive home, it looks like our house/street, 1 town over, was left pretty much unscathed.