Month: September 2008
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The branches are now all cleared up.
Well almost….. The tree guys eventually turned up on Thursday this week – they were meant to have been here Monday, and the downed tree has now been removed. The stump and the other half of the tree remains – we’ll have to get rid of that soon as it’s not stable. However most tree…
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Hurricane damage photos
I’ve posted a few of the pictures of the trees that fell when Hurricane Ike blew through Ohio. The crazy thing is that North Carolina (that was meant to get the hurricanes earlier in the week) was hardly affected. Hopefully some tree surgeons will be here tomorrow and my insurance people will be talking to…
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Homeward bound.
We’re heading back to Ohio today. The weather makes it nicer to leave at 5.30am when it is chucking it down with rain and being really windy – makes you feel you are not missing much beach weather. On the down side, it means you have to drive through wind and rain – ugh. Sometimes…
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The power is back – hurrah!
In ironic news, Ohio was affected worse by the hurricanes than the Outer Banks – we ended up without power for a day in Ohio but didn’t have any hurricane outages in the Outer Banks (although we did have a power outage when the weather was gorgeous). The good news is we now have power…
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It’s raining again!
Woke up this morning (at 4am) to the sound of thunder and then a short while later to bright flashes of lightning. The thunder continued to about 6.30 and so I’ve been up for ages. It’s still raining and it is too depressing to look out of the window and attempt to see the sea. …
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Ur doin it rong.
Today’s lolcat had a funny picture – all the more funny as the litter box in this photo is the same kind that we got – thankfully none of our cats have tried this yet.