After a most-of-the-day rain yesterday, it is now a sunny, warm day with white puffy clouds! The preparations for Irene continue with folks out taking canvas and sails down, adding extra tie lines - in general just working to secure their boats. The marina has been very busy hauling boats out for those that choose that option. The marina guys have this cool little boat (in the picture) that they use to bring the boats to the lift to be taken out. It just ties to the front or back of the boat and pushes or pulls it along. Entertaining to watch!
The marina store (definitely going to be flooded if water goes high enough to get into the parking lot) has started moving stuff from the lower shelves just in case. We think this is a good idea because if they spend the time doing that, we won't get flooded!!
We thought about hauling the boat but it looks like the worst of it will be east of us. That will makes the winds for us to be out of the north so there shouldn't be much up here in the way of storm surge. But we are prepared with extra lines that can be lengthened if necessary. In the meantime, we're enjoying the sunshine and watching the weather channel! I also recorded the Browns game from last night but when we talked to Julie last night it didn't sound like the game was going very well :-(
More tomorrow!
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