Hurricane Irene

Well to say the least today has been quite the day. I awoke at 8:00 am and immediately got up to check the status of the Hurricane. The center of the eye had just passed into the Carteret County area. Winds here in Rocky Mount NC were about 25 mph so I figured this would be the best time to get Chaos up and outside to do his business. Now for a pit bull puppy, he does not like water, baths, rain etc so I had to go out with him. He finally did his business and we came back in. The electricity was on at this time however soon the winds picked up and power went out around 9:00. I really dislike power outages because I so like being connected. Thank God for smart phones so u can still reach out to others via phone or social media. The girls slept late. I fed the dog and cat and checked the status of the neighborhood and then went back to sleep myself.

Now I knew I had to go get the generator out and start it myself when my brother In law told me treed were down at my inlaws house. Luckily just roof damage to the garage...and that can be fixed. Mom had a tree down on her fence. We will deal with that tomorrow I guess.
So at 4pm I went into the garage, pulled out the motorcycle, pulled out the generator and put the motorcycle back in. I had to call someone for directions on how to start it and its going!! I will have to refill it with gas in a few hours....at least twice before tomorrow morning....but that's ok. Its nice to have power again but honestly it is so loud!! When I move to the farmhouse I will see about having a generator installed so when weather events occur all this manual labor can be done away with. I now jave to document the process for starting the generator so I can repeat the process later but I learned something new. Now if only we had cable (tv), I would almost be content! Thank you God for keeping me and my family safe!! I love you!!!