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WOW. We lucked out. I hope you get power soon.


Thank you for the well wishes. The sun is out here and Irene is on her way through NE. I would love to see the sphinx and the pyramids, the upper and lower nile and all the beautiful monuments, tombs etc. It has always been one of my dreams but I probably will never have the money to do so. :(
That's very bad. I hope one day your dream would come true.:):):)
 
Our power is back. That wasn't so bad. Nothing that 4 games of Jenga, a game of kids monopoly, playing school, eating lunch, playing monkey in the middle, then playing more Jenga could not cure.
 
Our power is back. That wasn't so bad. Nothing that 4 games of Jenga, a game of kids monopoly, playing school, eating lunch, playing monkey in the middle, then playing more Jenga could not cure.
OH GOODY!! I am so glad your power is back. How long was it out?
 
My neighbor is bailing his car out with a little plastic kiddie TO GO drink cup. YIKES. We parked our small car 2 streets over and would need to swim to it so I have no clue if our small car is flooded. The big car may also be flooded where it is parked at the far end of our street but we can't get to that one either at the moment.
 
patty1 called me yesterday. she was sitting in the dark. said she was o.k. just kinda bored. hope she is still safe. she called on her cell and we got off the line to save her battery.
 
We were out for about 3 hours or so.

Power outages appear to be isolated. We're East of you and the whole storm was a dud. My daughter is in Worcester, west of me and she's fine as well. SIL next town over lost power at 10:00 AM. None of us are near the coast so flooding is not an issue.
 
patty1 called me yesterday. she was sitting in the dark. said she was o.k. just kinda bored. hope she is still safe. she called on her cell and we got off the line to save her battery.


I just got my power back about a hour ago. Boy was I nervous during the storm. That is the first on I have braved by my self. Never again!!:wacko::wacko: My apartment building is ok but 2 big trees came down across the yard. I took a picture with my phone and we all know that my phone camera is not the greatest nor am I a photographer. So if it is a decent picture I will post it later.
 
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I just got my power back about a hour ago. Boy was I nervous during the storm. That is the first on I have braved by my self. Never again!!:wacko::wacko: My apartment building is ok but 2 big trees came down across the yard. I took a picture with my phone and we all know that my phone camera is not the greatest nor am I a photographer. So if it is a decent picture I will post it later.

Wow, Patt, so glad you are OK! Such scary stuff.
 
Post away, Patty. I'd love to see some pics from folks I know rather than just TV stuff.

It looks like everyone checking in has been lucky with the power outages not lasting long so far.
 
It feels like October breezes outside. Here is a shot of my yard and 2 of the sky. The water has receded about 2 feet already. The water was so high it was going into parked cars and low trucks.

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Thank you.

The water was so high it was going into parked cars and low trucks.
BUT the wind is kicking up to 20 MPH now from the west and causing waves in the water that is left.
 
View attachment 11946Here is the picture. This tree snapped and left only a tall bare trunk still planted. To the right of that is another tree that fell. It kinda looks like a bush because this view shows the top of the tree only.
 
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<img src="http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11946"/>Here is the picture. This tree snapped and left only a tall bare trunk still planted. To the right of that is another tree that fell. It kinda looks like a bush because this view shows the top of the tree only.

Heartbreaking. Hate to see the old trees go.

A couple years ago we had the most beautiful blue spruce, White House Christmas tree worthy, and came back from vacation to find out it was gone from a tornado. Wonderful friends and neighbors had cut it up and removed it.

Hopefully there is no more destruction.
 
We lost power about 1 am this morning and spent most of the day without it. It finally came back on around 6 pm tonight. Read my book, took a nap, brought in the camping lantern and got it ready for tonight but didn't need it. We had no flooding. I think the fact that it arrived at low tide saved our area a lot of flooding problems. Mostly it was just downed trees and power outages. With Isabel in '03 the storm surge took out water treatment plants and we couldn't drink the water. Didn't have that this time. While we had about 24 hrs of heavy winds and rain, all in all it was nothing like what was hyped for our area.
 
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