Frankenstorm Sandy

Last night Carlos and I weathered the Frankenstorm known as Sandy.  It was really, really windy here (gusts topped 80 mph) and super rainy.  We had prepared ourselves well and because we are field biologists, have more than enough emergency supplies around as standard gear (e.g. three headlamps, tons of batteries, candles everywhere, lots of water bottles to fill).  Our power (and internet!) remained on through the storm, so we are very lucky.  Our old little apartment suffered a little water damage from the heavy rain being strongly blown into the windows.  We had to soak up the drips with towels and containers, but it wasn't that bad.  We also had a drip in our ceiling, which fell down while we were asleep (we didn't even hear it).  It looks worse than it is.  We will be going to talk to the managers here to get everything fixed, but I am sure they will be swamped with repairs.

 

 

Today was a pretty normal day.  It was chilly (the first day our radiators started squeaking!), but not uncharacteristically so.  Carlos and I wandered around the neighborhood for a while, but the damage to Capitol Hill was very minor/nonexistent.  We were lucky -- this was a very strong storm!

On another note, I spent some fun time carving our pumpkin for Halloween.  I saw a dachshund pumpkin picture and I thought that would be great.  We now have our very own little Salchichita in pumpkin form -- I think it turned out pretty great~