Hurricane Henri

I spent two days getting ready for this little adventure storm.  I am so glad most of my preps were for naught, as Henri was a major flooding event only.  Considering how much rain we got, the major flooding that has occurred, I am really lucky.  No flooding here, no water in the basement.  YaHoo!

The center of Henri went over Hartford twice.  By the grace of God, the winds were not horrific, and no trees were lost.  We never lost power here, and very few small branches.  I prepared for high winds, putting everything I could away, putting up the awnings, closing the attic windows and parking Rigbee up at Bowers School, out of harm’s way. 

It could have been so much worse (see Irene, Isiaias, Sandy) and I have no complaints.  I brought Rigbee home on Tuesday, parked down in the dead end with the covers on the wheels (brand new front wheels) and sun shade in the windshield.  One thing the storm coming up the coast brought with it:

HEAT!

We’re having another heat wave, and the humidity is gadawful.  Thank God I have  air-conditioning.  So glad I got that done last summer.  Even the dogs won’t go out for long.  They run out and do their stuff and come right back to me. 

I felt bad for Tripp as I was sick on Monday morning and we didn’t go to class, so when I decided to check out the damage in town, he got to come along.  We went out for a ride on Monday afternoon to see what was happening around town.  There were reports of flooding around town from Sunday afternoon and I was curious.  The falls at Case Mountain were flowing wild and crazy, and although there were videos of Charter Oak Park flowing with Bigelow brook overrunning it’s path, Middle Turnpike being impassable in places, that was on Sunday.  Case Mountain was still flowing madly, but we couldn’t even get into Charter Oak Park to check it out.  The Turnpike was open and so was Hilliard Street where the Hockanum River had flooded over it, but the flooding remnants were still visible.  As Tripp and I walked down the street to get some pictures, wouldn’t you know Henri part 2 came back and we got soaked walking back to the car.

We went home and dried off, watching the rain keep on coming down!

I pulled the awnings back out yesterday morning, to try and keep some of the sun and heat out of the house!  Hopefully the heat wave will break over the weekend. 

 The falls running wild and crazy at Case Mountain.

beaten down grasses on Hilliard Street from the Hockanum River flooding.

so, these are pics of the Hockanum in full rush.  the path beside the river is completely covered by the flood waters, in the picture above you can barely see the bench for sitting next to the river... it's in the river!

 Rigbee hanging out in the school parking lot, waiting for the storm to LEAVE!