Effects of Hurricane Irene on Greensprings Interpretive Trail
During the weekend that the area of Jamestown, Williamsburg, James City County were seeing the effects of Hurricane Irene, the waters quickly rose upon the Wetlands at Greensprings Interpretive Trail. While we had some winds and a lot of rain, there were often periods of a sort of calm. The rain continued but there was a break from the damaging winds. 
At about 6 pm the storm had almost arrived right over head. During a band of green on the weather channel, we took our two labradors out for a walk to stretch their legs after a long day stuck in the house. As we were playing in puddles out on Main Land Farm, the winds began to kick in again and there was some concern getting back to our home through the trails which wander through the park. By about 7 pm, the beginning of the worst winds arrived to the Jamestown area.
Throughout the day we had endured quite a show from Irene. After 7 pm the worst of the storm arrived and I am willing to predict the most damage occurred after this time closer to 8 and 9 pm. Until that time we had power which was lost at about nine. We all got through the night well. I was on the trail at 7 am on Sunday morning to find a great deal of damage that had not been present 12 hours earlier.
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