Hurricane Sandy

This morning is when we started seeing the first of Hurricane Sandy. It was down pouring, but it wasn't too windy. The wind has slowly been picking up through out the day and it's been a steady down pour all day already. (It's been great fun trying to get the dogs outside) 

Already last night, they started closing schools and other events in the area. Courtney was even told he didn't need to come into work, unless he was needed. So, it's been nice to have him home with us during this hurricane, because last year during the hurricane, he had to go into work, while McKaila and I watched the storm from home. 

Right now, 4:00 p.m. the wind is picking up. We already can see that there are trees down in the neighborhood and the creek behind our house is filling up really fast and it's also moving pretty fast. We took some pictures of the creek before we ate lunch, so it's filled up a lot more since then, but I wanted to show you all a little bit of what's happening around here.

Keep in mind that there was barely any water in the creek before the hurricane hit

The news is saying that it's just going to be getting worse as the night goes on. Possibly the strongest of the storms will come around 8 tonight. So, what we are seeing now, is probably nothing to what we will see later. Will try to keep the you all up to date as much as possible on the storms, as long as we have electricity.