After the Storm

Well, Irene has come and gone, leaving a few things in her wake. The wind and rain started at about 10 or 11 Saturday morning - and while the rain has stopped now, the winds are still howling a bit outside. Luckily, though, we never lost electricity!! I spent the evening at my friend Liz's place downstairs with a couple of other students. We had a movie marathon, roasted marshmallows over candlelight, played Apples to Apples, drank wine, and listened to the storm and a few crashing windows outside. And I got to go puddle-jumping in my galoshes too ;o).

Around 11, I went up to check on my place; the weather service was predicting that the storm would be at its peak by midnight - and being on the northeast corner of the building, my apartment would be taking a beating. I discovered that I had water leaking in a few windows (more through the molding above the window than from the actual window). I got to work putting towels around it and carefully placing tupperware to catch the drips.

While I was doing this, I heard a crash and went into my kitchen to find that the wind had sucked the top panel of my window out. The wind blowing around my building had created a vacuum - so it just took my window right out. I called the emergency number, and since our maintenance manager is out of town for the weekend, the property manager himself came and boarded it up for me. He had a busy night - and there were a few tenants worse off than I am. My window will get fixed this week - and I expect the molding above the window in my bedroom will need some work as well.

I am so thankful it was my kitchen of all windows - that it didn't leave a single shard of glass - and that the wind was blowing out, not in. Otherwise I would have had a TON of water in my kitchen! None of my things got wet - so I have much to be grateful for!

And I am thankful for friends to helped me out - and that I had a place to stay last night. A few of us had a slumber party in Liz's apartment - she lives on the third floor, so the other buildings around us shelter her place. I went upstairs every two hours to change my towels and empty my tupperware. So I am a bit tired today - but we're planning on taking it easy today. We slept in and had brunch at my place - and will be reconvening in a few hours to continue our movie marathon. Perhaps a little "Singing in the Rain" while we watch the rain outside...