Hurricane Sandy, day two

Well Hurricane Sandy came ashore last night and has now left (for the most part).  We escaped without any catastrophic damage, and we still have power even though it flickered a lot last night.  We spend the night in the basement, a family slumber party.  Avery liked being next to mommy and daddy, a fun change of pace.

This morning once the wind died down and the rain tapered to a drizzle, we assessed the neighborhood.  At our house, the only casualty were all the leaves and beautiful foliage that got blown off!

Then we put on our rain gear

And Avery got into daddy's backpack

And we went off an adventure by taking a walk down to Rock Creek Park to see what it looked like.  Avery loves our family adventures.  There were trees down across the trail and road

And the creek, which is normally a babbling little stream through the rocks, was nearly overflowing onto the road.  We could tell last night it had over topped the road since a lot of the road and path were covered in sand (see above pictures).  At the bridge under Connecticut Ave the trail was covered by the overflowing stream!

Luckily we made it through without much other damage, it appears that NYC and NJ got the worst of it.