This is the scene this morning, cool and sunny, the main sound that of chainsaws dealing with downed trees.
Hard to make believe that yesterday was all about wind roaring like an express train, torrential rain, trees bending double, for several hours. My little town has minor damage, roads closed, a few power interruptions, nothing like the surrounding areas.
The storm seems to have scored a direct hit locally, over a million people without power in the state, nearest towns to here completely impassable, with trees and wires down on nearly every road. Tornadoes reported.
So, thank you for your good wishes, we did fine, and wish our neighbors had been as lucky.
Glad to hear! Wishing the best to your neighbors and all others affected.
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Chris from Boise
Glad y'all are all right!
ReplyDeleteglad to hear you were spared. I think I've been through 4 or 5 direct hits from hurricanes in my lifetime.
ReplyDeleteGlad you’re okay. Sounds like it was a very bad storm.
ReplyDeleteIt was like Sandy again except that Sandy went on all night and made the house creak like an old ship. The roof threatened to lift completely. We still have full grown trees lying about from Sandy because there was so much damage that the tree companies are still only able to keep up with the trees downed on roads and wire situations.
ReplyDeleteI lost my lovely cherry tree in Sandy, many old growth trees gone. This time was less drastic.
Glad you came through unscathed. This year keeps getting better and better.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you are fine but empathize with others who are not. not an easy time of year and not a good season.
ReplyDeletePhew - very relieved that you're okay and escaped relatively unscathed. Sounds like clean up elsewhere will take considerable time. A tornado touched down just north of here a few days ago and must admit it was quite close enough for me!
ReplyDeleteStill half a million people without power. In hit weather. And needing to work from home. Grateful thanks to the crews from elsewhere who've come in to assist. Thank you Canadians too! It's always mutual. Nearly all of our NJ techs went to work on the Montreal ice storm and other disasters. I like very much the way this profession disregards national frontiers, when there's great need. Local townships are running charging stations for phones and that kind of device. No cooling stations for anyone though.
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