A Visit from Hurricane Isaac

Hannah and Tyler maker their own entertainment

 One of the drawbacks of living in a really hot state located near the sea is the threat in the summer of Hurricanes.  This year we were visited by Hurricane Isaac.  As hurricanes go this was a reasonably light one, although it stretched out to cover 400 miles across.  The problem with Isaac was it was very slow moving so when it came with its winds of upt to 100mph and its torrential rain it stuck around for the best part of two days battering the towns nearest the coast..

We're lucky that we live far enough away from the coast that by the time it reached us it had lost a lot of its power, eventually being downgraded to a tropical storm.

 

Our house - you can see next doors gate on our drive

 We lost power for about 4 hours which again isn't bad as some who lost it for days but those 4 hours were long enough with Tyler continually asking for us to turn on the TV and asking why we couldn't cook food.  

As you can see from the video above taken this morning we were lucky that Isaac eventually moved on, much longer and we could have been flooded. The ditch out the back is about 5 foot deep and 7 foot wide so you can imagine how much water it's holding.    I think some of our neighbours across the street may not have been so lucky.

Thanks for all the facebook messages and rest assured we are all safe and well.

UPDATE

After promising he wouldn't get wet we let Tyler outside.

Hmmm he needs some work on keeping his word ......