Nope - the sound of trees/limbs cracking!
If you kept up with the Hurricane thread, I posted there I was up most of last night. Didn't seem too bad, we were west of the worst of it.
Wind, but nothing like I expected. Yes, a LOT of rain. It rained heavily for about 14 hours.
So I went to sleep this morning, and woke up about 2:00pm (!!!) to the bus rocking. It wasn't raining any longer... but the wind was really going crazy.
I looked out the window - and was shocked at what I saw, because when I went to sleep, there wasn't much but some branches and leaves flung around.
This is pretty much what I saw, even though this was taken outside:
Gary joined me. We thought we heard gunshots! We figured out pretty quickly - it wasn't gunshots, it was trees (or big limbs or branches) coming down!
Of course, the ground was so wet before all this rain, a lot of trees just... fell over.
We decided to move the car:
Good thing we did. It wouldn't have fallen on the car the direction it ended up going, but still - this is that tree that was half standing:
This is one site over, poor battered tree!
This is what it looked like 2 hours later (notice a tree is down behind it now, in addition to the tree already down in front of it!)
I walked down to the end of our dead-end road to take a picture:
And, finally, here's Baloo coming up to tell me all about what had been going on!
If you kept up with the Hurricane thread, I posted there I was up most of last night. Didn't seem too bad, we were west of the worst of it.
Wind, but nothing like I expected. Yes, a LOT of rain. It rained heavily for about 14 hours.So I went to sleep this morning, and woke up about 2:00pm (!!!) to the bus rocking. It wasn't raining any longer... but the wind was really going crazy.
I looked out the window - and was shocked at what I saw, because when I went to sleep, there wasn't much but some branches and leaves flung around.
This is pretty much what I saw, even though this was taken outside:
Gary joined me. We thought we heard gunshots! We figured out pretty quickly - it wasn't gunshots, it was trees (or big limbs or branches) coming down!
Of course, the ground was so wet before all this rain, a lot of trees just... fell over.
We decided to move the car:
Good thing we did.
It wouldn't have fallen on the car the direction it ended up going, but still - this is that tree that was half standing:This is one site over, poor battered tree!
This is what it looked like 2 hours later (notice a tree is down behind it now, in addition to the tree already down in front of it!)
I walked down to the end of our dead-end road to take a picture:
And, finally, here's Baloo coming up to tell me all about what had been going on!
nj.com describes the power situation in a lot of counties/areas as playing "whack-a-mole." But at least our substation isn't under water. *phew*
.....I am just SOOOOOOOOO thankful you are ALL alright, kitties included. Was that your RV in the second photo? 
, It is sideways a bit.......I hope that wasn't yours 
. And, Baloo, what a character, he looks so relieved that everyone survived the storm. 
How scary!
