Me, myself, and Irene

Just after mommy's birthday we were hit by Hurricane Irene. Mommy and daddy spent most of the day Saturday bailing out the basement, and we all slept on the ground floor instead of upstairs. It was scary!
We were lucky not to have any trees fall in our yard. There were lots of trees down in our neighbourhood, though. I took a brief tour to look at a few of them in my new chariot.

This tree came down in the yard of the house on the corner, one block away from us.

This is the top half of a pine that just snapped in two across the street from us.

This is one of several houses near us that was hit by a falling tree.

Although we didn't lose any trees, all the falling trees in the neighbourhood meant that we were without power for more than a week. I did not like sleeping at night without air conditioning!!