As I'm sure you're all aware of, we recently had a strong storm come through Savannah. Hurricane Matthew was a category 2 storm when it came within 30 miles of Tybee Island, making it the strongest storm to hit this area in over 100 years. Luckily hurricanes don't move very fast so we had plenty of time to prepare. We secured all of our outdoor possessions and took down any dead/suspicious trees around the property the day before.
I also picked all of the veggies in the garden.
We took in several evacuees during the storm, including Windy (below), 7 cats (in addition to our 3 cats and our 2 foster kittens), 2 dogs, and 3 people. It sure was a house full but it was nice to hang out with everyone.
The storm came through at night and the eye passed at about 2:00 am. I don't think any of us got much sleep!
The power went out around midnight on Friday night but we didn't have too much damage from the storm. We lost one shingle on the house and two trees that fell without incident. Mostly we just had a lot of little branches and leaves littering the yard.
We really gave our new generator a work out keeping the fridge and freezer going during the five days we were without power. Meals got creative using the grill and microwave but we made it work. We are very thankful that it wasn't worse!
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