The day after...Hurricane Sandy

We are safe and sound in NJ!  We still have power too!   Grandma is so happy we had those trees up front of our house removed when we did!  Especially that really big tall one that hung over our house!    A lot of the neighbors had trees removed when we did.  (What's that saying -- monkey see, monkey do.)  We are thankful they got trees trimmed and dead trees removed too.

Anyway, our street looks pretty good.  Nothing like when Hurricane Irene hit last year in August.   Last year at this time in the morning, all the neighbors were out front picking up big branches all over their lawns from Irene and raking up tons of leaves.

This year, not too many branches down from neighbor trees, and a lot less leaves since a lot of trees from the block were removed.

Maybe that branch hitting Mommy's car earlier this month was a blessing in disguise, not just for us, but for our neighbors too.  That wind was so strong -- someone's dead tree or branches could have caused serious injury around us.

It's too bad Mommy is still so frightened of tree branches from that branch earlier this month.

Mommy's head is hurting so bad -- probably from worrying too much.  (Seems like something is squeezing her temples together towards her skull.)

In any case, we just wanted to send out a blog post to let everyone know we are ok in NJ. Still the occasional gust of wind going on this morning, but it's nothing like it was last night.

We hope all our blog friends are ok too!

Here is a picture of our house this morning after Hurricane Sandy.   Hurricane Sandy decided to check our mailbox for mail.   I don't know if the Post Office delivered mail yesterday, butt, I guess Sandy decided we didn't need to pay any bills so, she got rid of those bills for us!   Thanks Sandy!    Oh, and Sandy decided to turn around that 1212 sign, it used to face up and down like the mailbox, but now it is more parallel with the house, and it faces the mailbox.  Mommy likes the way it faces now.  Mommy will keep it that way!    Oh, one last note, there was a little part of a tree branch on our roof between the front door and a bedroom window.  It got up their weeks/months ago when we still had our trees out front of our house.   Mommy told a neighbor weeks ago, I'm sure if there is a strong enough wind one day, it will knock down that little part of the tree branch that's up there --- Mommy was wrong!   The little branch is still there.  Guess Sandy likes that little piece of branch up there, so it stays!

Lassiter Chase and Benjamin Gilligan