Yes, we had a project today that took most of the day - but might come in handy if the power is out for a while.
Meanwhile, tomorrow a.m. I need to recharge the electric fence battery, gather up dozens of doodads from the yard (buckets, solar path lights, hoses, lumber, etc., do a load or two of laundry and run the vacuum. Probably will harvest some tomatoes, ripe or not, and get them in, and take some "before" pictures. We're upland a bit, may just get hit with heavy rain and some wind gusts. But we've had two brief power outages in the last few months from trees falling (one during a sunny day, but a few days after a rainstorm), so we may see a few more fall this weekend.
The Merritt Parkway is being closed, I am told, as well some train service will be shut down, flights cancelled, so it sounds like someone's taking this hurricane / storm seriously.
The sugar maple over the duck house is a sturdy looking tree, and an arborist has checked it out and it looks good to him, too.
