Rain! Rain!

Hurricane Irene came to New York as a tropical storm. By the time it reach our house the winds were minor, but the rain was heavy. Friends said they measured about 9 inches over the day of Aug 28. Jim spent a lot of time on Friday and Saturday before that putting together some small dams and channels to try to divert some water away from the house and garage. This turned out to have been worthwhile as a lot of water was drained away to places where it would do less harm. We lost electricity about 8:30 AM on the 28th and it returned the next day about noon, so it was not too bad for us. Some friends did not lose electricity or phone or internet. Areas to the west of us and to the north seem to have been harder hit.
About 10 days later we had heavy rains again from remnants of "lee". Unfortunately, the guy who mowed our lawn while in India felt the urge to be diligent and he removed the dams built for irene, so Jim had to put some of it back. It helped some, but not quite as well as for Irene.
Today we have more heavy rain. The streams and creeks still have high water from the other storms and the ground is pretty well saturated with water at present, so this will not help, but it is not expected to be so much water. Temperatures are also dropping over night. Fall has started!
Janet spent 2 weeks on Cape Cod with Ziggy and Zoe and their "Aunt Linn" came to visit over Labor day weekend. Linn lived downstairs from us in India. She return in July of last year.
Contractors have been making slow progress on our house, but progress at least. the main delay has been particular light fixtures chosen by a decorator friend which never came in. The contractor warned us that places are not stocking as much and they are also being less than honest about delivery times.
Ziggy and Zoe are well and seem to have lost interest in writing... unless they have created a new blog somewhere else?