Day 73 Sunday August 28, 2011 It's raining cats and dogs!

We wake up Sunday morning to the wind blowing!  The lake outside looks like an angry ocean on Cape Cod!  Lots of white caps.  And the trees are swaying with lots of wind.  Probably a consistant 20-30 mph with lots of gusts all day.

And the rain!  Looks like a wall of rain at times that you can see coming at you in waves over the lake.  Very cool looking while inside!  Not something you want to be in.

Towards noon, it's clear that the boats left in the water were a mistake.  A neighbor comes over looking for help on trying to bring another neighbors boat to shore.  This is a great group of caring people!  Soon there were five neighbors and Tom, Louise and Ed all in their raincoats going from one boat to another to get them safe.  Then since the water was churning up quite a bit, they decide to take up their two docks.  It was quite an adventure.

Then we heard a roaring SNAP!  A tree has snapped in half and fell on Tom's boat and hit the roof of Louise's dad's house!  Now, real teamwork happened.  It was just amazing.  Everyone rallied around to remove branches that we could and we tried to move the boat.  No luck.  One of the neighbors is in excavating and had his equipment with him! He used a backhoe to hold up one end of the tree trunk (about a foot and a half in diametor!) to take the pressure off the limbs overhanging the boat.  Then they used a chainsaw to saw that limb.  Then everyone pushed out the trailer and got the boat to safety.  Miraculously, it doesn't look damaged...just scraped!

Another group got tarps and covered the hole in the roof of the house. 

They spent the next few hours cutting up the limbs of the trees, piling up the debris, and assessing the damage.  All this in torential downpours!

I feel so bad for Tom and Louise!  What stress!

Day 72 Saturday August 27, 2011 Evacuation Day!

It's Saturday morning and the sun is shining.  No rain and no breeze and we need to evacuate with our camper and all by noon time.  Very annoying.  But I guess you can't fight city hall, so we are off.

Lake Wentworth view from Louise's Cabin

We get to Louise's house.  Lake Wentworth looks great.  Calm and a little overcast, but the sun is trying to peek out. It's a beautiful spot!  Louise and Tom are getting their Sailboat out of the water 'just in case'.  The news channels are all still really hyped about the storm.  After their work is done, Tom and Ed go out for a Kayak tour of the Lake.  Water was getting a little choppy since the wind was picking up.

We talk about where to put the camper and their sailboat in case of high winds.  There are lots of large and very tall white pines all around this area.

Louise's dad has a home right behind her with an open side yard.  They decide to put our camper and car on the side of the house and the sailboat in front of the house.  We go back to relaxing, have a great dinner and hang out and just talk.  No rain yet, but they are expecting it to rain quite a bit.

So far so good!