Power's Back!

Well, that was exciting. We heard from the weather dudes that a strong storm would be heading our way. They were right. On Thursday afternoon the winds started kicking up and, for the next 36 hours, we had, more often than not, high winds and rain. By 8:20 P.M. we had no power. At home our power turned back on the next afternoon around 4 and, at the store, sometime over Friday evening. Internet came back sometime yesterday.

So we spent Friday surveying the damage to our property (about a square of missing shingles) and checking the local area from Sister Bay to Baileys to Egg Harbor. Peninsula State Park was closed due to significant tree windfall, both Fish Creek and Ephraim had boats on shore, and power was out far more often than not.

Since it appeared the store would need to stay closed for the day, we went back home, grabbed some food, and took off to run a variety of errands. We ended up driving around quite a bit, stopping at just about every water access, and doing a little shopping including getting some apples (really excellent this year considering the summer's rain schedule), and getting to Off The Wheel Pottery so that Jenny could use her birthday gift certificate at Renee's.

By mid-afternoon we were back at the Ephraim beach were we sat in the truck like a bunch of tourists and had a picnic and watched the beached sailboat rock back and forth and the crazy sailboarded fly around and memorized lines and knitted and enjoyed Jen's bunny mug. And everywhere we went we talked with people who were checking on others or driving around to see if something needed to be done or checking on mooring lines or making sure  things were OK ... a neat glimpse of community in action.