Hurricane Sandy did not directly hit the Atlanta metropolitan area but we sure have felt her presence.  Our daytime and nighttime temperatures are about 20 to 25 degrees lower than the average and the wind has been blowing steadily for almost a week without a break.

Now I know that wind for a week is nothing new to many of you.  It is a normal day in Texas, Oklahoma and along the coasts.  But around here if the wind gets above 15mph for a couple of hours they put out the red warning flags.  But for good reason, drought-weakened and diseased trees are coming down all over the place.  Atlanta is one of, if not the most heavily wooded city in the country, there is hardly a square foot that is not in jeopardy of a tree falling on it.  We have several monsters surrounding our little RV, and everybody else's RV in the park we are staying in.  Thankfully the owner of the park had a crew in just in September to prune healthy trees and remove questionable ones.  Still, when we get a good, long gust you can see heads pop out of the RVs to look and see if a tree near them has moved abnormally.  The wind should let up by tomorrow morning, barring anything happening tonight, everything is okay.

Even with temperatures hovering near the freezing mark at night we have yet to use the furnace.  So far all our heating needs have been met with just a simple little ceramic space heater.  At night we close the door between the upstairs and downstairs and set the heater to hold the temperature at about 66°.  Perfect sleeping temp.  The little heater is not overly taxed at these temperatures, it cycles on and off.  We'll see how it goes when we get into single digit temps in January.  I am keeping the propane tanks full in anticipation that the furnace will be needed.