What a difference a day makes

Well it's not every day that we are faced with a hurricane.  Or I guess by the time good ol' Irene made it here, she was a tropical storm.  I'm not sure anyone sent her that memo because she wasn't very kind to us.

Her havoc was felt all across the region, and while we feel lucky no one we knew was injured, her devastation ran deep.  I am watching my cousin's boys this week so that she and her husband can clean up from the mess in Waterbury VT.  They ended up with 5' of water in their basement and 4" of mud across their entire upstairs.  I figured it would be at least one less thing to worry about if we watched the boys.

Stories from Keene Valley to Peru to Beekmantown have all come in from our staff and customers.

And while we joke around at our seminars on how long it will take to get power for new constuction after a storm, no one really thought it would be like this.

The irony in all of this, is another cousin lives in NC right where the hurricane came ashore.  They lost power for about 18 hours only, and not a single shingle on their roof.

So once again, we'll dust ourselves off and start again.  The North Country folks are hearty for sure.  We lost a couple of days in the clean up but will pick back up where we left off.  Like the ice storm before it, some day this will make for a good story.

We wish all of our friends and neighbors well as they clean up...