The flag is flying once again!. Blog #923.

1. The American Flag is flying over the Bunker once again!.
2. On 09.14.2008  the tail end of Hurricane IKE, teamed up with a  low pressure front passing through the mid west and eastern US and really messed thing up for weeks, as you may recall.
3. A hint of a Hurricane or a remnant of one this neck of the wood is most rare indeed.
4. Our white pine trees along the front property line and  those up and down the street took a major hit, debris every way.  Our utilities except for a telephone power old princess phone was was all we had  for a week. We did have a cell phone that had to be charged in the car.  Communication was our only convenience item we had.
5. The house stood tall, not a shutter or roof tile was damaged, thanks to the low ranch style profile and the winds for the most part were parallel with the long side of the house
6. Our American flag on front porch,which  flew  24/7/365 got wrapped around the porch column and had to be cut out and scrapped .Save the tattered flag however.
7. Since the YR 2008 presidential election was but weeks away and I had a gut feeling how it was going to turn out, I decided not to put the flag up again until a CTPR became president.
8. Well it happened yesterday. A fresh new Stars and Stripes once again flys.
9. The reason I can recall the event with such clarity of mind....it so happened to on my Birthday that year and that cake that accompanies such an event, never made it and was consumed off cite by the folks who were bring it .
10. A belated chocolate over chocolate.cake tasted just as good weeks later. 
11. Yesterday, was a Good Friday for the USA>