Wordless Wednesday: Hurricane Irene

What a Crazy storm. Here are some of my favorite pictures.




Our apartment during the storm. So thankful we live on the second floor!

Photo: Cory Booker's twitter feed (Newark, NJ)



Minor league baseball stadium near our old apartment.

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Location:Biltmore St,North Arlington,United States

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Hurricane Watch - Saturday Morning/Afternoon

It's getting closer! 

photo: http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ 

We're now to the point that we have constant rain. Nothing insane yet, but definitely rainboots and umbrella weather.  They've been back and forth on whether its getting "better" or "worse"; but I think its at the point where we can't really be making any more predictions, just preparations. 

The picture below is the bread aisle in one of the local grocery stores at 8pm last night. Nothing left but a few hot dog buns.  Apparently they also got a one half truck shipment of bottled water yesterday, and it was sold out in an hour. 

We've made all the preparations that we're going to.  We have two cases of bottled water in our chest freezer, and about 8-10 gallons of water in the fridge.  We made sure to turn the refrigerator down to teh coldest setting so that if the power goes out, the food will stay cold for as long as possible.

And since we're stuck in the house for the foreseeable future, I thought it would be a good idea to make some food early that will last us through the weekend.  First on my list: Oreo Brownie Cupcakes! I have plans for some more food later on today, but we have plenty of rations to last us for several days.

We still have anywhere between 8-10 hours until the center of the actual storm gets here, so we'll just be waiting it out and hoping that everyone stays as safe as possible.  I'll also be tweeting and instagraming more pictures throughout the day. If anyone is interested in following, my name is rukristin on both of those. 

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The Calm Before the Storm

Good Evening! 


Jeff and I were supposed to spend the weekend in wonderful Cape May, NJ at his parents shore house; but on our way down yesterday they issued a mandatory evacuation of the area due to Hurricane Irene.  It's supposed to be the worst storm to ever hit New Jersey.  It will definitely be something to remember. 


We are back home now and we've settled in for the weekend. We have a ton of water, lots of ice, more than enough food. 


All the local grocery stores are out of water, milk, a lot of canned goods, batteries, etc. We here up in North Jersey really LOVE to over-prepare for things like this. There's plenty of gas stations with no more gasoline. Crazyness. 

photos courtesy of my sister Lauren

I still need to round up the candles and the flashlights and put them in a central location. I'm preparing myself for the power going out; but I'm not sure if I can handle an extended power outage---the electric company just sent around an email telling people there will more than likely be areas without power for 1-3 weeks. 


They've instituted contraflow on the major highways in the shore areas (my new favorite word); where all traffic in all lanes goes away from the shore (so even the southbound lanes have cars going northbound). 


I hope to get a lot of scrapping done, and we just bought a new video game--Tropico 3, its a city building game where you are the dictator of an island in the Caribbean, and you have to complete certain objectives. 


Now is just that horrible calm before the storm waiting period, where you really have no idea what's going to happen...just that it is going to happen. 


Hope everyone else is able to stay safe this weekend!

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