I don't mean this in a bad way. I know what a fuck-up this can be. But, yanks, get a dose of what we go though every 2 or 3 years. Guess we're a bit better prepared.
I have gas for cooking and heating water, but the fing lights are a bitch.
Good luck all !! Need anything, call or post, write.

starting to get windy here!

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entert...-1226506521088

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Stay safe, everyone! Watch out for sharks!

Sent by thought transference.

Made it overnight with no power loss!

The winds were amazing. Now just soaking rain.

Bravo! Amazing, considering where you are ... glad you came through all right. Any word from others in the area?

Glad you made it through, UT!

Our light flickered numerous times and we lost power for a couple minutes at one point, but it's morning now and the winds have died down considerably, but it's still raining.

We have a drain outside by the basement door, and when it gets full of leaves, the water comes into the house. So I keep cleaning it out. Lots of leaves trying to clog it. But I'm on top of it, and we're dry.

All in all, Sandy was a wimp at our house. Which is just fine by me. Friends half a mile away got a tree on their house and car. Big tree, got the house next to theirs too.

It turns out that in my county, this morning, 175,000 Peco customers are without power... out of 300,000.

All told 600,000 Peco customers are still without power (out of about 1,700,000) and that's after Peco restored service to 240,000 customers. So about half of Philly area lost power, and about 2/3rds of my county, where the trees are.

I did lose an old, dead tree but the tree didn't completely fall. It's held up at a 60-degree angle by another tree. Now I wonder whether I should just leave it to the new owners. Maybe they will like it like that.

A couple light flickers but not much else here. Usually ocean storms hit us harder but Sandy ran to the West so her winds were being blocked by the hill I built against to avoid the normal prevailing winds.

Time to check for chainsaw work.

tons of wind - I thought my shutters were coming off but I checked this morn. and they are still there. Snowy-ish rain and very blowy.

No power outages here - YAY!

East coast peeps...check in.

Who're we missing? jim? wolf?

Jim was ok last I heard.
Wolf has no power but she's okay. She's throwing everything out of her fridge 'cept the beers.

*all facebook stuff

:)

Warm beers work in a pinch.

Or they can just sit outside. Mine do sometimes. But not for long. ;)

oh yeah.... 'm fine.

only lost power for like 3 minutes. mainly just bored. watched a lot of bad tv, ate chinese food, etc.


Actually saw someone I know on one of those man on the street interviews. And heard one reporter ask a citizen what they think people should do if they lose power. really? that's bush league.