Living in Tyler, Texas this past summer I think I saw a grand total of 2 minutes of rain between the months of May and August. I return to New York and BAM! we get hit with (of all things) a hurricane! This hurricane came just days after the random east coast earthquake (Side note: Apparently you could feel the earthquake from Toronto to NYC to Atlanta. I was in Atlanta but I was getting a pedicure in a massage chair...erego I didn't feel it. WOMP, WOMP.), and sent the entire northeast into a tizzy.

We tied the deck furniture down, bungee-corded the hockey net to a tree, and filled a bunch of buckets of water for our sheep and prepared for the worst. It rained over 6 inches between Saturday and Sunday evenings and the flooding was some of the worst I've ever seen! Fortunately, our part of upstate New York was spared- we only lost power for 12 hours, the flooding was temporary, and the damage was really only aesthetic. North and south of us, however, was not so lucky. People heard their cattle drowning, witnessed people trapped in their cars and floating down raging rivers, and whole towns have been wiped off the map.

It's terrifying how much damage a Category 1 hurricane has caused the northeast, and it's really unfortunate that nobody is really reporting enough on it. Please keep the northeast in your thoughts!