Hurricane Irene

Hurricane Irene coming through here wasn't a whole lot of fun. The worst part of it was that Courtney was working for all of it. They did tell him to get a room on base, so he didn't need to drive in it, but he refused to leave McKaila, me, and the animals all alone.
The winds and rain started early in the day and it seemed like just as Courtney arrived home, the winds started to get worse. Luckily for us, only one tree fell down in the backyard, but it got caught onto another tree, so it didn't fall to the ground.
We got pretty lucky in the fact that we didn't lose electricity. It kept flickering every once in awhile at night, but always stayed on. We feel very lucky because there are some places that still don't have power.

Pictures of the backyard

Most times the creek don't flow like this

You can see where the water went up to, on base they got close to 12 inches of rain. We think we got more here