here comes the sun.

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I'm sure you've read all about Hurricane Sandy by now and seen all the gruesome aftermath pictures. Being from Florida, I'm no stranger to power loss, howling winds and flooded neighborhoods. We'd joke with our cousins in Virginia that instead of snow days, we had "hurricane days"growing up - at least one every year where we lived on the Gulf. I remember plenty of candle-lit dinners and days without TV (the agony!)

I can thankfully say that my neighborhood here in New York was barely impacted. We still have our power and more apples, peanut butter and bottled water than we can consume (those are my hurricane supplies). The pizza place across the street stayed open late into Monday night, and delivered our dinner while waited for the rain to finish falling. Subways and trains are still down, so despite the sunny weather that's finally arrived, I'm working from home with Josh while the city puts itself back together again.

In the mean time, I'm thinking about and praying for all the people in those pictures and everyone who's suffered a loss.

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