Prep for Sandy + Raccoons

With Hurricane Sandy due to strike on Monday our tree guy called past for a tidy up. He cut off a few of the dead branches in our trees, particularly in the tree our resident raccoon likes to hang out in. (hopefully this discourages him…apparently raccoons can be quite agressive. I wonder if there is anything else we can do to discourage him?)

But what to do with all these leaves???

Strangely after Hurricane Irene last year and now Sandy this year, the hurricane prep seems like it must just be an annual task. So much for these one-in-a-hundred year storms or have we just been unlucky?