Paul Francis Photography

Hurricane Irene {the Aftermath} | Paul Francis Photography - [...] Hurricane Irene came and went. Everyone’s got their stories of how it effected them and are now dealing with the aftermath. Sunday morning when the rain slowed and we went outside we found we were surrounded by rivers. On one end of the street there usually is a stream, but on this day it was more like a raging river that over flowed all the way up the street to our house. Below you can see the view of our neighbors car from our driveway. On the other end of our street there was another raging river… which is normally a main street in our town. There’s been some collection of water there in the past with heavy rain, but nothing like this. At one point, Paul tried to go out (why? I don’t know. He says his masculine sense of adventure) and stopped because the water came up to door of our SUV! When we went to observe what kind of flooding we were dealing with, we ended up meeting lots of wonderful neighbors we never have before. Nothing like a hurricane to bring people together. They told us emergency personnel were passing through… on boats! I wish I had seen that. [...]