Preparing for Sandy

As you probably know, Hurricane Sandy is scheduled to make landfall in Connecticut some time over night tonight.  Although we don't live along the coast, which was already under mandatory evacuation orders and experiencing flooding as of noon today, forecasters are predicting sustained winds in central Connecticut in excess of 50 mph and gusts of up to 80 mph between late Sunday evening and early Tuesday morning (36 hours).  There can be no doubt that we will lose power again, and probably for a significant period of time.  This time, we have our fingers crossed that the utility companies are better prepared - indeed, there are already 1,600 out-of-state linemen in Connecticut, as well as 500 tree trimmers, with another 900 linemen (supposedly) on the way.  We lived through this twice in 2011, and we are ready to do it again in 2012.  Lee spent yesterday morning cleaning the gutters and we brought in all of our outside furniture; the gas tanks in our cars are full; we did all of our laundry and cleaned the house (it sounds funny, but there is nothing worse than a dirty house and piles of laundry when you have no electricity); we stocked up on dog food, crackers and granola bars and I have cookies in the oven right now; tonight, we are cooking a nice roast for dinner.  Our bellies will be full, our clothes clean and our hearts warm when the storm hits, and that is pretty much all we can do.  If possible, we will update the blog to let you know what is going on.  Please keep us in your prayers over these next 48 hours.

Cleaning the gutters. 

There was a freak sale on lobsters at a local grocery store on Saturday night, so of course, we snapped some up!  What a way to prepare for a hurricane!!!