Sunday, August 28

Eating our Cone Head sundaes at Friendly's

Restaurant with patio seating, gives new meaning to water front.

There is a statue and some park benches to the right of this photo, all under water.

Luke is showing me the horses on the farm.

It is pretty amazing that last evening we were anticipating the high velocity winds and heavy rains of Hurricane Irene and this morning the sun was shining as though nothing had happened. Dover did get off pretty lucky with only 50 mph winds at the most and 8 1/2" of rain, we could barely see any signs at all that she had passed through. There were lots of small limbs and branches in everyone's yards but we only saw one tree down and that was in a park down town. The only flooding we could see was in the old historic section near the post office, a restaurant and small park gazebo and statue were under water as a tributary had swollen and was raging out of it's banks. We were very lucky but we felt we were prepared for the worst and glad we did not have to see it. Trish lost her cable service for a while but we never lost electricity. Friends, Carlo and Nancy and their son Cody came over last night for supper and we had a "Hurricane" party. Well really all we did was eat and enjoy each other's company and it helped to keep our minds off of what we thought might be a really scary night. Cody, a high school senior kept Luke and Lily entertained while Chad and Carlo made one last trip out to the farm to feed and check on the horses and we just cleaned up and enjoyed the evening. Trish and Chad are really lucky to have such good friends.

Luke and I went out for a walk around the neighborhood this afternoon to see how things looked but aside from an abnormal amount of green leaves on the ground everything looked like it did before Irene moved through. I am leaving tomorrow and hope that I don't encounter any flooded roads near the bay bridge. If I can get past Baltimore it should be fine for the rest of the trip. We went out for dinner tonight at Friendly's and made sure we had ice cream for dessert. We picked my car up from the farm and then Luke and I spent the rest of the night watching the Super Heros fight crime. Looking forward to getting back home to Molly and Mr. B.