How I spent my weekend - in the dark, basically, and literally

[wraithfodder]

I didn't pay much attention to the weather. After all, they said rainy and windy. Even the cat, as you can see, was unconcerned.


Kitty is happy, and in fact, continued to sleep through it all.

Well, it rained, it poured and it was windy, as you can see from the above video, and then poof, around 4 pm on Saturday, the lights went out. So did cable. Blast!

The next day rolls around. Still no power. However, had stuck the wheelbarrow outside so we had water to flush toilets. When you have a well, you can't flush toilets without power.


Went out, found this a few roads down. Now, I know the winds didn't do this. Probably a vehicle sliding into it.


Well, ain't going that way. This was a BIG tree that hadn't been there the night before. Right were you see the orange cone on the left, is the phone poll where the fuse had blown out. THen, an hour later, the tree went "timber!". It sat like this, with detour signs, for just over a day. However, they got it fixed very early this morning as it was a major commuting route.


Further on, the entire grassy area, always dry, had turned into a lake. That water saturation, combined with high winds, took out this tree by the roots. This happened a LOT all over the place.

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This one hasn't changed. The tree fell over and is supported by power lines. However, this is not a major road, so it's last on the list to be repaired.
 

Well, this is a dead end (you can barely see 'no outlet' on the yellow sign) and the bright pink signs (new) warns of live wires. A real mess. I found this on a back road.


This is a parking lot. However, it's flooded out, which is from....


The river. The trees in front? Not normally underwater. It definitely went over its banks.


And another view. Very raging river stuff.

And we got our power back around 5:30 this morning. Only good thing? it wasn't ice, and we're not in New Jersey, which looks just awful. We actually got off pretty good considering all the damage in the tri-state area.

Comments

[tavabean.livejournal.com]

I think kitty has the right idea!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Of course he does. I want to be reincarnated as spoiled feline!

[mangababe.livejournal.com]

Lovely cat. I had a Siamese growing up. Cat definitely had the right idea.

Sorry you had no power for 2 days. We lost power intermittently all day Saturday, it was impossible to work, so I read and got ready for it to go out for an extended period. We were lucky. Wind gusts did shake the building though...very creepy.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

well, thank god for Y2K candles and water (yeah, we had a stash!) and books and flashlights :)

[abydos71.livejournal.com]

OMG your cat is the spitting image of my old siamese that I lost last year. They are the best cats ever. So beautiful.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

They are. I love siamese cats.

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

OMG. The weather is nuts everywhere right now. The world's going crazy!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Well, have to say, I'd rather than gone through this than what's heading into Fiji!

[leesa_perrie]

Kitty has the right idea! Cute!

Some great pics of the devastation! Wow! Glad you've got the power back!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[euphoricagony.livejournal.com]

Poor trees. It always makes me so sad to see that...even though it's perfectly natural.

But...kitty! Everyone on my flist has such cute kitties! Then again, how could a kitty not be cute?

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

All cats (well, not so sure about Persians) are cute :)

Yeah, LOTS of trees destroyed, and cars, and some houses.

[saltyd.livejournal.com]

I emerged from the storm unscathed! We had power, no trees were lost, but the stream on our property overflowed which the kids thought was great! Nasty nasty storm! But you got some great pics! :)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Lucky! Well, the closer to the shoreline, the more the damage. Glad to hear you did okay.

[abracah.livejournal.com]

We had the all that wind too. I was just a bit worried about the trees in our yard landing on our house. We missed most of the bad stuff though. We only had the electricity dim for a moment.

Now my SIL lives in Delaware and she is under so much water!! Farm fields look like ponds.