A lot of people lost their electric but we were lucky and didn’t lose ours. A lot of trees came down in the area too. Yesterday morning we had a hellacious thunderstorm that scared poor JoJo half to death. Yesterday afternoon I went to go to Shoprite and couldn’t get up Second Ave because a tree was down across the road. I had to turn around and go a different way. I saw at least 3 or 4 trees down during my 5 minute trip.

We’ve had so much rain that there is flooding everywhere. We went past the local baseball/football fields and there is no way anyone could play any sports there right now. It looked like a big pond.

Now I have to get my stuff together and go do laundry. I was going to do it yesterday but Andi and Drew invited me to go to the Berlin Farmer’s Market with them and it was good to get out of the house and do something other than sit here or do laundry.

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We saw what the last 4 day nor’easter did to the beaches and it really made a mess of them. Most of the dunes have been washed away and a lot of the wooden ramps from the boardwalk were closed because of at least a 6 foot drop down to the beach from the missing dunes.

There were a few other people walking the beach using metal detectors, collecting shells and even a couple surfers. I forgot just how calming and relaxing the sound of the waves can be. I could have sat on the rocks for hours and just listened to the waves crashing.

Benton enjoyed his first trip to the beach. We had him bundled up with his little animal/bear hat on to keep his head warm and a warm blanket. But the sun was warm and the breeze wasn’t too bad until we started back up the beach to the car. But other than that it was a great day.

Enjoy the pictures below.

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