And I survived Hurricane Sandy!

[wraithfodder]

Although somewhere along the way, it got named "Superstorm" Sandy. Tough to tell when, as I had no power for six days. The storm came in on Monday and we lost power probably just about the time I was standing the garage, watching the row of 50-60' tall white plines (hate white pines, hate 'em) wavering back and forth violently and hoping they would NOT fall and hit the house, the car or me. Then the wind died down. Phew. An enormous gust roared in and KER-RACK! the huge pine at the end of the driveway snapped in half, and oh yeah, there went power. Luckily, the next day a neighbor came by and wondered if I need help and came back with chainsaw and cut out a portion so I could get car out. I did manage to get to work on Wednesday, drawn more by power and heat than the desire to work ;) Everything was covered in pine needles, the car, the house, the gutters, the entire yard. I still have to clean up the front yard.


Yes, VIrginia, there is a driveway underneath the wreakage...


Freedom!


But, we got a nifty blue sky out of it.

So, no power, no heat (that was the worst), no internet as a big tree in neighbor's yard uprooted and took out all the power/cable lines. LOTS of trees uprooted. Fortunately for all the falling trees, no one's house nearby got nailed, but there's a ton of useless wood (pine isn't good for much) in big piles in yards.  But we had water, our Y2K candles (they will outlive us, I'm sure), pizzza and I kept the cat warm by going to work and microwaving his Snuggle Safe pad each day so he'd be warm at night.

Comments

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

Oh my word..........
I just heard today that there are still thousands without power
in the NJ and NY area........
Now two weeks later.......

I remember when the freak storm hit Oregon on Columbus Day
the power in some areas was out for ((((((weeks))))))
The coast sustained 176mph winds and here in Portland it was clocked at 127mph.......
It was a remnant of Typhoon Freda which suddenly blew in from the South Pacific

[jya-bd-cp-ttgb.livejournal.com]

Glad you're okay!! And pine is good for chopping up and making either mulch or cat litter out of, can't remember which.

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Glad to know you're okay :D

You know, I love trees, but when you live where you can get high winds, tornadoes or massive hurricanes then they're scary as all get out.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Wow. Glad you're okay.

[libra-traveller.livejournal.com]

Glad to here you're are doing okay. That sure sounds like a lot to deal with.

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

Glad you survived.

We lost power that Monday at 3:30 PM when the telephone pole in the front corner of our yard broke in half; took the power out all the way to our small town and Fire Dept. Power was back up Friday night but was on and off until 2 days after the Nor’easter. It was definitely cold and keeping the parrots warm was really hard. People worse off through out the Island though.

My vet said there were sand sharks swimming around the streets of one of our downtown seaport towns.

[fififolle]

I'm so glad to hear you made it through the other side safe! Very scary. And yay for helpful neighbours with chainsaws :)

[lost-sheep-2.livejournal.com]

So glad you`re okay :)

[immertreu.livejournal.com]

Glad you're okay!!

[dejla.livejournal.com]

Truthfully, chainsaws scare the heck out of me. Considering how clumsy I am at the best of times, I can only see disaster as the result of me+chainsaw.

I am glad it wasn't worse up your way.

I really feel guilty that all the difficulty I had was in trying to get into the city without the Battery Tunnel.

[cimmerdeux.livejournal.com]

Hurray!Six days isn't 'too' bad considering how long you were without power last time and no houses or cars or people were harmed in the near vicinity.

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I forgot that you were nearby! I'm so glad that you survived. We were following that one BIG time (The New York Marathon was cancelled and we had runners over there. Proud to say they didn't complain, just pitched in and helped out :)
And yes, I know this is a bit late in the reading but I'm going through my backlog (and I now have the ljapp so I can keep up :))