Irene!! (Page 2 of 2)

Here in central PA, we had three inches of rain, sustained winds of 20-30 with gusts to 50 (judging from the noise Irene made Saturday night/Sunday morning), and only about eight hours without power. The power company was so swamped with calls, we weren't even able to get through to report our outage until around 1PM.

No damage to the homestead, nothing blew away except some perfectly good leaves on some perfectly good trees. One of our neighbors did have one of their trees split in two, but that was the only real damage in our neighborhood that I could see. Still, I was surprised at the intensity, probably the closest we've had to a "direct hit" in 20-some years in this area.

Don't tell me UK news agencies are more sensational than Fox Network here in the states. They are who I was referring to. The media is vital to preparing for these acts of mother nature, but when they do marathon reporting 24/7 it's a bit much. As you recently found out over there that digging too deep is criminal.

                                                                                                                               Think Green,

                                                                                                                               J Dawg

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No power at my house since Sunday at 10am (I am currently at a place with wifi).  Possible it won't be back until the weekend.  Rather annoying because all the "nicer" towns have theirs back and parts of my area (including two houses down from me and behind me) have theirs.  We have a generator running our fridge and the neighbors and filled with 3 household's food.

The most frustrating part is seeing minimal tree damage near us but  still no power.  No repair trucks since either since Sunday.

At least we didn't lose anything major like so many others - so sorry for you Jenni.  Cathy you are so far in the woods you probably won't have power until winter!

Sandy

Finally power is back after 97 1/2 hours!  We were lucky because we have a generator - we were actually running our fridge with 3 households worth of food and the neighbors fridge, but boy did I miss this place.  Making me rethink my internet connections in the future. 

I hope the rest of you who have had problems are getting better - Vermont is really slammed, they have had to airlift supplies into some areas.

Now please Katia stay away.

Sandy

Pretty bad here in New Jersey, I made out ok. Only reason why I did alright is due to the fact that I do not live close to a river. Lost power for about two days. Our local power substation was under 3 - 4 feet of water. All of the Jersey rivers have been full since mid summer. To get the power back on, they had to re-route it. They are saying it could take up to a year or so to fix the actual power station itself.

The lower level of the house got some water seeping in through a wall. That got to the nice new carpet we had down there. I spent Sunday night tearing up the carpet. Other than that, I can't complain at all. I feel lucky to believe alive. There are still some people around here with no power and some who are surrounded by the flood waters.

Bill

Finally got my power back tonight about 8:00 PM after losing it Saturday at 3:30 PM. Have never seen so many trees blown down and branches every where. Not a lot of damage from wind but one gust at the airport reached 71 MPH with 6 inches of rain. The power outages in central Virginia was the big story here with 150,000 people still with no power.

Roy