Tue 30 Oct 2012
We were quite lucky. Storm Sandy gave us only a glancing blow, as it turned out, although that was bad enough. We had lots of rain and high gusty winds, 45mph or so, but our power stayed on — the lights flickered twice, and that was all. We were well prepared with food, bottled water, flashlights and a portable battery-operated radio, but we didn’t need them. I haven’t turned on the TV yet to see what damage was done along the shore here in CT and farther south along the East Coast, including New York City. Horrendous, I imagine. I know lots of people are in a lot more trouble than us.
There is one huge branch of a tree in our back yard that missed our deck by several feet, otherwise we might have lost it. The storm was essentially over by 10 pm, although it was supposed to last for several days, it was so large. I looked out it see if were raining, and I saw the moon shining brightly between the clouds. That was a great relief!
Today it is still windy with lots of gray clouds but the sun is also out, shining brightly for the first time in several days. I don’t know if you remember the date of our snowstorm last year, when we had no electricity for five days, but it was exactly a year ago. I really didn’t want to do that again!
October 30th, 2012 at 11:38 am
Glad to hear all is (more or less) well. These storms are becoming too frequent to suit me.
October 30th, 2012 at 11:55 am
That’ s good, by comparison to NY City, where subway tunnels are flooded, parts of Queens are burning, and such !
Good luck for the remaining storm period !
The Doc
October 30th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Steve,
Obviously you live right!
October 30th, 2012 at 3:42 pm
Steve:
Same here. Just lots of wind and rain. No outages, although my son, who lives across the way, says his power went out twice, but for a minute or two.
Spent most of the day yesterday tracking down Bart Spicer’s birth name and sent it off to Al Hubin.
Stay dry!
Victor
October 30th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Even in Michigan, we are feeling this storm. Our power has held except for a second or two here or there. Glad you are ok.
October 31st, 2012 at 11:09 am
21st century America is off to an obstreperous and eventful beginning. It’ll be nice when things are less interesting.
Steve, glad that you survived pretty much in one piece.
October 31st, 2012 at 1:34 pm
We lost power for a couple days in the Trenton, NJ area. I continued reading books and pulps by candlelight and flash light. No pulps were damaged but I’m sort of hurting from picking up hundreds of branches in my yard. But that’s alright; people can be replaced but not pulp collections.
October 31st, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Walker, Walker, thou shalt not spurn thyne lyffe !
The Doc