So Hannah wasn't nearly as scary as advertised (for us anyway). Many Triangle residents are flooded, so we got off pretty easy. The storm rolled in about 3 AM and pounded us with around 5 inches of rain before noon. Everything is soaked and blown around, but the big pine in our back yard survived. We're still trying to have someone take it down, but it's hard to get a call back during hurricane season. Now that Hannah has blown over a bunch of trees, the companies will be even busier than before. We're pretty thankful that no damage was done to the house or cars - not everyone was so lucky. Several large trees fell onto powerlines and cars and one neighborhood is completely cut off by a washout.
This is the view from our porch this morning at about 11 AM....
The sun was out by 2 pm so Emily and I headed over to the Eno River for a hike. The only problem? Most of the trail was under water as the Eno River was gushing with runoff. It's typically a very slow moving river, but today was very different.
Here is the picnic area...
Ok, let's try to go the other way up the trail...
Yeah, so it was a fairly short hike. It was still interesting to see our quiet little river gushing over her banks. Here we are sitting on a bench for a short water break.
