We "Survived" Irene!

 A video of the amazing sunset we saw today!  Photos taken over an hour period, the wind was passing the clouds by pretty quickly.

So we "survived" the hurricane...I say that in quotes as it barely felt like anything to us.  We were lucky.  We must just be in the right spot on Manhattan, as we barely saw any wind this morning when it was supposed to be at its worst, and there was hardly any flooding by us (only a bit in a parking lot low area next to our building).  The wind picked up again this evening, but was nothing devastating.  We're lucky because we know how many people were left without power, or who were flooded or dealing with downed trees.

In the end we did not need our extra bottled water, or the candles (which they said later that they shouldn't be used in an emergency situation like this), or stockpiles of food.  Well we didn't have stockpiles...enough for the two of us for a few days.

I told Felipe today that after "weathering" an earthquake and a near hurricane in the same week that we better make a run to the gun store or to home depot to pick up some shotguns or axes for when the zombies attack....they say bad things happen in threes, stay tuned for that! ;)