The day after

Well peeps, it looks like we made it through! We lost power about 1 am and it cam back about 10-15 minutes ago. Record time for us to get it back in a big outage!

I went out and surveyed the damage this morning. Two trees are down in our woods, but they thankfully fell between the other trees and kept from causing a chain reaction of falling trees. It's still raining and a little breezy this morning.

I'm a tired out puppy though and will probably be spending a lot of the day snoozing.

WWFN,

ROSIE

Liveblogging Hurricane Sandy

Hello my faithful readers!

1:05 pm October 29, 2012

I was trying to start this earlier, but the internet wasn't cooperating. Gee, I can't imagine why.

Anyway, the wind and rain have definitely been picking up throughout the day.

I went out about 9:30 this am to do, well, a dog's personal needs, and got very wet. I was not amused.  I had to take a big nap afterwards to dry out.

At about 11:30 am or so the news people announced that Kanga's hospital was without power already. She's glad to not be working today and tomorrow. :) Owl is off work, and Tigger is off school as well. I've been busy helping them both with homework and work.

The current forecast.

The mail did come today. Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor hurricanes shall stop the USPS!

Hard to see, but the great Lake Superior is forming in the front yard.

Hard to really get a good picture of how windy it is, but this shows it a little bit.

 

The status of the backyard as of 1:10 pm, 10/29/12.

Tigger is about to take me out to attend to my dogish needs. Not looking forward to getting wet!!!!!

1:30 pm October 29, 2012
Just back from going outside. ICKY!!!!!!! I GOT VERY WET!!! From only a few minutes outside. Owl is getting ready to call Aunt J-Dog who lives in NYC to find out how things are going there. For Irene her comment was "I've got plenty of wine and cat food so I'm fine."
2:10 pm October 29, 2012
Winds still increasing. Looking like it's supposed to become even nastier before it's over. 
4:10 PM October 29, 2012
Sandy is about 50 miles from land.  It's raining a little harder, and the wind is still increasing.  I'm waiting on my dinner. There's a decent sized branch down in the front yard and Lake Superior is filling up.

Trust the bowtie: Nabby "Hurricane" Schwartz

5:16 pm

Winds have dramatically increased. Power is flickering. Looks like it's going to be a long night!

5:33 pm

Sandy is making landfall!!!!!!!!

Evidently, in NJ, there are wave heights of 20 feet. EEK!

5:49 pm

I'm putting up a new poll- you're supposed to vote after the storm passes you, but I'm posting it now, so it's sure to go up. BTW, you've gotta love Gov. Christie- he sure tells it like it is.

7:05 pm

The girls took me out during a temporary lull, but there were some impressive gusts. Here are some pictures from earlier this afternoon/ evening.

I also helped Tigs study

And hid under the dining room table.

STAY SAFE!!!!!!

7:58 PM

The electricity has started flickering again. Strong gusts seem more frequent.

8:46

We're hearing some big stuff fall right by us. Tigs wants to move to the basement.  Of course, when stuff isn't falling, it doesn't sound very windy. We're watching North and South, a very good BBC mini-series, on DVD. The girls are playing "what else was that actor/ actress in" with a fair amount of success. 

9:05 pm

We just heard something else fall, but it was further off...

9:25 pm

I wonder by what miracle we still have power....

10:00 pm

The wind is pretty calm now, and we haven't heard anything fall recently. 

10:55 pm

I don't hear anything outside, and haven't for a while. According to the NOAA, it looks like the worst is over. North and South just ended. Kanga was right that they would get engaged- not that the fact that she's seen it before would help her predict that- she said she could tell because he was mean to her. :)

11:02 pm

Tigger here disagreeing with Rosie's statement that the NOAA indicates the worst is over. According to their hour-by-hour windspeed chart, we haven't reached peak gusts yet and should be at peak gusts from about now until 2am.

More Autumnal Walk Pictures

Hem, so my last two posts have been sadly devoid of pictures of me. I'm sure you're all heartbroken about this. So, to help ease your Rosie-picture-withdrawal, here are some of the pictures from my woods walk with the girls the other day. 

*sniff sniff* I smell.... HOBBITSES!

"The ferns were bleached waxy white with frost.." (Name the author and/or book). Not that we've really gotten frost yet, but when the ferns get like this, I always think of that quote.:)

Rosie of the Basetcases (HEY!! WE"RE NOT BASKET CASES! ~ED.)

Seriously? The mysterious ED. is back?! *facepaw* WHO IS THIS PERSON?!! I MUST KNOW. 

 I'm off to make Wanted posters.

WWFN,

ROSIE

The forecast for the week. Looks ugly! Tigger's university has already announced that they are closed Monday and Tuesday. I took some pictures of me getting ready for the storm and will try to post them later if the computer cooperates.

WWFN,
ROSIE

A Bit o' Lightness and Levity

If you live near me, you're probably hunkering down in the face of "Frankenstorm".  If you don't live in our general vicinity, you are of course worrying about how your favorite blogger (hi!) will make it through. I will make it through fine with the help of my loyal family.
While you wait for the storm to hit, enjoy this fine song that was number two on the charts for this week in 1976.

Now, you're much less stressed about Sandy, aren't you?:)  Yeah, I thought destroying your faith in humanity would do it.
WWFN,
ROSIE!!!!

Here we go again!

You may remember if you were reading this blog back in the first couple of weeks of its existence me writing about Hurricane Irene. (You can find  those posts here, here, and here.)Well peeps, it looks like another one of those big pesky storms is headed our way! Time for some more cute pictures of me wearing a rain hat, power outages, and lots of wind and rain. I am not a fan of either the wind or the rain.

This was from Irene last August. It's not nearly as green out there right now. I'll try to get another picture like this later today.

Today I have lots to do to get ready for the storm. I'm going to take the humans on a long walk so they don't get too destructive while we're cooped up during the storm. I'm going to go get some kibble and move things off the back porch. I might do some more raking, and I've been doing lots of laundry so that the humans will have clean clothes if the power is off for a long time.

WWFN,

ROSIE THE WEATHER DOG

A Good Reader

Baby Celery is already a great reader (just like Miss Eliza Bennett;).

Reading to Grand-Owl

He's even a faithful reader of this blog, which proves that he has excellent discernment and taste in literature.

Can you tell what they're reading?

Lots of love and schloops,

Rosie<3

xoxoxo