Hurricane Florence

September brought the wrath of hurricane Florence, which cleared out the bread and water from Charlotte, closed the county schools for three days (two of them entirely needlessly of course), and dumped a record amount of rainfall on the city. By the time the storm arrived it was much weaker wind-wise than anticipated, so Joel and the kids were disappointed that we didn't even get tropical storm force winds. We certainly got a lot of rain though. The disruption to the kids' new back to school routine was NOT APPRECIATED. Fortunately we are now back into the swing of things!

This is my accidental rain gauge, as Caroline happened to have left this bucket hanging on the porch railing before the storm!