Hurricane Earl ... a bust

Well! Earl was a bust. Extent of damage ... 5 hours without power and 3 branches broken on a maple tree! 

It was a Category 1 when it made landfall ... but fizzled off pretty quickly when it hit the cold waters of the Scotian Shelf. 

At the peek of the storm they had 200,000+ homes without power. We were lucky to get it back so quickly. 

I guess when you've lived through Hurricane Juan (2003) anything less is a walk through the park!!  It took some area up to 7 days to get power restored back then!

We played a bunch of board games and I polished off a book I had half read. Shame it takes a hurricane to foster quality family time ...