November Nor'Easter

So after having rain here since Tuesday it has finally gone away!! Thank goodness, I didn't know if I would be able to handle anymore of it. Wanted to let everyone share in the joy we experienced in the last few days. It started just like a rain storm, but ended up getting really scary near the end.

Jacob woke up Thursday morning to go to work like normal, only to come back upstairs to wake me up and tell me our front door was blown open during the night and the couch and the table and floor was SOAKED. He got the hair dryer and tried to dry things up as best he could but eventually had to go to work. When I woke I saw water pooling on the side of the house which is normal for some rain. Later in the day Jacob came home and by the time he got here our parking lot was flooded, again, pretty normal. Well as it got close to high tide that is when things really started getting bad.

Water rose about 6 inches in about 30 minutes. It was getting so high because the waves were crashing into the sea wall but with the wind as strong as it was it, was just causing water to pour down the other side of the wall onto out yard. It was crazy. Here is a funny video we took earlier in the day when we didn't really think the storm was really a threat.


I will tell you that I did feel truly blessed because we had our power through the whole thing. There were 170,000 people without power so I do consider us lucky.

So if the storm wasn't bad enough, we had to deal with the wonderful military housing!! All but two of our windows in the whole house were leaking water, so we had to keep changing out the towels, which could have been the reason we still had power!! I had to put the towels through the spin cycle before I could put them in the dryer, they were so wet. We had to wake up during the night to change them out they were leaking so bad.

So I thought this is okay I can handle it, well then I went into the spare bedroom that has all my scrapbooking stuff, our baby stuff, camping stuff yeah like our personal storage shed, and there was water puddled in the middle. We couldn't figure where it was coming from until we looked up!!!! Yes we had water dripping down the walls and a spot on the ceiling that was leaking. Could we get any luckier!! OF COURSE. The same thing happened in our bedroom!! The downstairs closet is the only room in our house that didn't have water!!!!

So that was our awesome adventure for this month, we will have to see what next month holds for us!!!! Here are some pictures I took this morning, but the water had gone down already so you can't get the whole effect, sorry!!!

Our front walk

A view out the back door!! Last night I had to walk through this to get to the car to move it and it was almost up to my knees in some areas.

A closer picture of the car, the water level was up a little higher where you couldn't see the hubcap on the front tire.

Here is another one of the front. The water rose over that first step by about three inches, so you can see that the water went down pretty good. PHEW!!

This is the lake in between our house and the neighbors!!!

This is the only picture from last night that came out, it was hard to walk because you could barely see the walk. We went to check on our neighbor a few times because her husband wasn't home and they have a toddler in the house. I lost a pair of sandals trying to walk through this, with the wind making the water move pretty good I took a step and off it went!