Aftermath (Still Alive!)

The worst has passed for us, and all we had were a few power flickers. I was prepared to lose power for a week or so, so I’m amazed. I hope everyone who went through the storm is okay. Stay safe if you’re still in the path!

I was really looking forward to the part of no electricity where you get bored and have to play board games, so I made Ryan play Settlers of Catan with me even though we still had internet. AND I WON. Barely.

Pretty much everyone I know was in the path of this storm (except for my friend smart enough to move to California). The eye of the storm passed within miles of Ryan’s house in New Jersey. They got some water yesterday. Here are two firefighters standing in front of the store where Ryan worked for seven years.

(He worked in the surf shop. Not the jewelry and accessories store. Just to clarify.) To the left is a store that makes delicious dark chocolate gelato, noooo! Ryan’s house is fairly high off the ground, so hopefully it’s okay. We’ll have to see.

And this is a picture from my parents, of their neighbor’s yard. And in next-door neighbor. As in, this tree could have squished them if it had fallen differently.

Instead it got two cars, and part of the house to the left (not my parent’s).