Sandy Report
Hope this post finds everyone safe and having not lost much in the wake of this massive storm. I was semi-awake most of the night. Our power went off a few times, and cycled on and off for a couple hours, but luckily it held. There were no generators to be had as of early Friday afternoon ... this is something we need to get because all I could think of was our freezers full of food being lost.
Being at relatively high elevation and far enough inland, I wasn't worried about water too much, more about wind and our big tree. One fairly big limb came down on our shed which then blew apart ... Not sure if it can be saved, but it is what it is, and relatively minor. Quite a few smaller limbs came down as well. Although it makes for less privacy, I'm happy our neighbor had some limbs on his tree trimmed recently. Still, something hit his house and ripped his fascia board off.
According to the hubs, we have a chicken in the neighborhood that clucked its way through our back yard. (This would make Joel Salatin happy, but not the town officials.)
My folks are without power so I expect company later since it was just the line to their house it won't be top priority. One neighbor lost a car to a falling limb. We'll take our tour of the neighborhood later. One good thing is there'll be lots of free firewood to be had.
How'd you fare?
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Getting a better look at the shed, it will be salvagable. It's one of those Rubbermaid deals and it looks like someone just took it out of the box and laid out the panels getting ready to assemble it. The cross bar and brackets are holding the front and back together and that's about it, but nothing appears to have broken. I'm just bummed we didn't strap it up, though it might not have mattered with the limb coming down on it (or it might have just broken rather than broken apart). Luckily most of the stuff inside didn't scatter, and I only lost some seeds and fertilizer, the tools and gas cans and such will dry off.
On that bright side, there will definitely be a ton of firewood to be had for winter!
They also showed video of a big tree coming down in someone's back yard. They just so happened to have the same shed there, which seemed to be staying put. Big tree came down pulling up the roots/lawn. THAT is the scariest of it all. We have some behemoths here. Phew is all I can say!
Ya know, I've been to Jersey shoreline, but never to Seaside Heights with the iconic amusement park. No more. Not quite as unfortunate as growing up in the NYC burbs and never being in the WTC, but still. Can't imagine what these people are going through.
Just looked where Bath is. I don't think you have much to worry about there. Hope you hear soon in any case.
We did see some pockets of outages still in our neighborhood, which weren't apparent in the daytime.
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