Quick blog before...

...the power goes out! Well, maybe it won't...we'll see. But at this moment (3:45 PM) it looks like the worst of the weekend storm is about to come through (from what I'm seeing on the radar on intellicast.com). It's a good bit overdue from when it was expected (they were originally predicting it would arrive between 3:00 and 4:00 AM). It seems to be tracking straight up the Outer Banks. I'll blog an update later on how we fared, assuming we have power. :) I have a laptop with a great battery, but the DSL modem won't work! Hmmm...time to purchase a small UPS, maybe.

More later...

4:50 PM update: it looks as if the worst is over, and it wasn't all that bad. It rained pretty hard with some decent wind for about 20 minutes, and now the skies are clearing. The sun just came out, so we are now experiencing what my family calls a "monkey's wedding" (it is raining while the sun is shining). No, I don't know the derivation of that term.

The radar shows the rest of the storm moving north and east, so it is out to sea rather than over us. That's one nice thing about living on an island: it's a relatively small target for big storms. If they shift just a few miles, they can - and often do - miss us completely. No challenges with power so far.

Here's a picture which comes close to showing how windy it was during the downpour. Look at the top of the house to see the water flying off the roof.



I did see my ducks; they were swimming down the road. We didn't have flooding per se, but there are several low spots near here, which always create great puddles when it rains. (Yes, puddles are great: my childlike side still thinks they are fun to walk through and/or jump into. The adult me says "just don't drive through them too fast!")