Hurricane Irene

[Recently in waking life there has been a big hurricane in the news named Irene. It has come up through Florida and Georgia and North Carolina.]

In my dream, the hurricane had continued to make it's way up through Virginia, although, instead of coming from the south, it was coming from across the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east. I was outside, and it was terribly windy and such out, but not much rain on this side of the mountains.

As I looked across to the mountains, I saw that it had rained so much over there that evidently it had filled up the valley over there with water, and the wind was blowing so hard that it was making it churn around like an ocean. Waves were beating on the other side of the mountains, and they were jumping up over the tops of the mountains and splashing down just on the other side of the big barn across the road from our house.

I went inside for a bit while the storm wore itself out, and then soon after it had gotten sunny out. Aunt Irene, Mom, and I think Eric and Matthew (brothers), and I all went on a hike up this path on the mountains that led into one of the lower crossovers of the mountains. When we got to the top, we looked around on the other side, and all we saw was water. It was as high as the mountain we were on.

We continued on the pathway, which started down the other side, and we soon realized (because the water was up to our waists) that the path went too far into the water, and we didn't want to drown, so we turned around to come back. On our way back, there were these little brown and green lizards that were hanging from various leaves of plants, and Aunt Irene started talking about them, saying that she used to see them all the time when she was a kid. She said that they always had to be careful of getting too close to them because they'd jump out and clamp onto you like they were doing to the leaves. She also said that they weren't so bad and you didn't have to worry about them very much after they dried up and became crispy.