The Morning After

[dawn_felagund]

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[ellynn_ithilwen]

Glad to hear there was no real damage around you! But at the same time, I am sad to hear there are victims in other places. :(

Oh dear, you really were productive! *lol*

[dawn_felagund]

Indeed, storms like this are always sad because someone, somewhere, ends up much, much worse off than you do. :( It could have been much worse; I'm grateful that it wasn't.

[spiced_wine]

Glad to hear you came through it safely. I hope there is not another for a long time!

[dawn_felagund]

With climate change, I fear we need to get used to this ... :(

[hhimring]

Very glad to hear you got through all this with only minor damages. (And you even managed to do some editing of You-Know-What!)

[dawn_felagund]

We were lucky; we were on the edge of the band of tropical storm weather. Where my parents live--only a little bit east of us--they fared much worse.

Indeed, I hope print, e-book, and SWG versions of You-Know-What will be available before long! :D

[heartofoshun]

Yay! For successful stay inside activities. I did nothing but read and waste time. (Well cook and wash dishes and play with Baby Fingon.) Laura even did the window taping. Gabriel did nothing! He is a real Prince at times (as in spoiled Latin American upper middle-class kid!). I would thought he would be involved in the window taping. At least he was pleasant and stayed out of our hair. Oh, yes, he did make popcorn--lots of it!

I am so happy things were not worse with this storm. I hope everyone gets their power back soon. My nieces husband works as some sort of engineer for Duke Energy in North Carolina. He is usually almost never home in hurricane season (she calls herself a hurricane widow), so this was no doubt a big jump start for him this year! I haven't talked to them yet.

[dawn_felagund]

There is nothing wrong with reading and wasting time! ;) I have had a far less productive day today. (My parents spent most of the day with us since they have no power and just left. Before that, I read and did an eensy bit on my illumination. I'm thinking about cleaning the study a bit more ... so far, just thinking about it! :D)

Your nephew-in-law might be in Maryland! Apparently, we borrowed help from out-of-state.

I'm very relieved that you all in NYC were spared from the worst predictions for this storm. Although seeing videos of the flooding in parts of Manhattan was surreal.

[heartofoshun]

There was a lot of water everywhere. Now there are worries about falling trees (over-saturation) and broken limbs. Every little thing is hard to care for when a city is so concentrated. Hope we get a chance to dry out a little it was already a very wet summer.

When my niece says she is a widow during hurricane season, she is not joking. He is a lovely man though and an awesome father, worth the wait.

[dreamflower02]

I am SO glad that Irene was not as bad as people were fearing; I had a superstitious dread about it because of tomorrow being Katrina's anniversary. I'm so glad the East Coast dodged the bullet.

BTW, OT, but labourslamp gave me this link, and I thought that as a fellow calligrapher/illuminator you'd enjoy it (if you haven't seen it already):

http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/902-Benjamin_Harff_Interview_Edel_Silmarillion.php

[dawn_felagund]

I'm very relieved as well. I'd rather be overprepared than the other way around.

On our way to the beach earlier in the week, my mom told me about a dream she had when she came home and all of the trees on my parents' land were down. She didn't associate it with the hurricane until I said something about it; that had me feeling superstitious as well.

I did see the link; mithluinsent it to me! :D I'll probably do an HL post on it sometime soon; schools have already been closed tomorrow due to widespread power outages.