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Anyone experience the effects from the hurricane ? North Jersey is a mess right now with all the flooding. Rt 287 collapsed just before my exit and is closed indefinitely. Luckily I had no damage at my house except a little water in the basement. The shore took less of a hit than expected. Overall I consider myself lucky.

I spent most of the afternoon on Friday clearing gutters and moving lawn furniture out of harm's way. I made sure I had batteries and plenty  of ice in case the power went out. At the end of the day we got about 7-8 inches of rain, a touch of water in the basement and the power went out for about 10 minutes...



We feel very lucky,



Jay

I just talked to Pete at RS Barn and he was going through some results of the storm fun.

What a PITA. I was not really looking for colonial conditions in Williamsburg, Va. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.png" class="smilie" alt="" /> No power, phone, internet and had to drive 5 miles up the road to get any kind of cell service. The sounds of the generators and indoor plumbing were nice to have though.



Power just came back on here, have phone an internet as well now but no cable TV for my 85 year old father to watch fox news on.



And then there is the matter of the big ass oak tree hanging over the house being held off the roof by two other oak trees and trying to get someone in here to take care of it because I'm not taking my chainsaw to it. better off than Isabel and better of than the other people on the block who have trees on their houses and cars.

Here in Hershey, PA we got about 4 inches of rain. No property damage but spent all morning cleaning out and draining the pool.



Wow, earthquakes and hurricanes in Pa - something new for us!

Power was out for a little over 30 hours - just got it back. Had to cut up a bunch of trees in the yard that had fallen, and pick up a jillion branches. Stream in the back overflowed a lot and took out the landscaping lights.

We received 7 inches of rain in less than 24 hours here in northwestern VT. Our small town was isolated (as in can't get there from here) for about 8 hours (amazing how fast the water rose, and how rapidly it later receded). Huge amounts of water covered sections of the four roads out of town, all due to the same river overflowing its banks. Homes, farm fields, parks and parking lots were also covered. We were without power for about 12 hours, but the generator took care of that. I had spent considerable time Sat. making water bars in my driveway, cause it has significant slope, and it paid off as there was very little erosion. Unfortunately many parts of the state, particularly the southern, did not fare as well, with many towns remaining isolated, many roads and bridges gone.

Our one facility is still without electricity or phone service. Looks like a tornado touched down because of the amount of trees snapped off at mid level. Patients are fine and as kids will do consider it an adventure. Mny places really close by are much worse as the storm seemed to jump and hit different pockets. So one is grateful for that which didn't happen.

Ya, we seemed to be one of those pockets. I live pretty close to Dulles airport in Northern VA and got some rain, with relatively tame winds. But nothing crazy like southern part of VA. I never even lost power <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.png" class="smilie" alt="" />

Ok

Finally got full time power, land line and internet at 6pm est. Still don't have cable.

Will post some tree down pictures soon.

We still have a facility with no electricity and no phones. It's presenting some unique challenges in not only running what's current but still accepting new patients. Frankly it provides an interesting opportunity to not only assess leadership capabilities but also staffing. Implementation of emergency procedures went smoothly with very little downtime. Overtime out the wazoo but to be expected. We are getting reads of power coming on next week! Still when you look at what some others here and in other states are going through, we count our blessings and just forge ahead

My wife's aunt just sent me this link that she came across. She lives up in Stowe herself. Gives you an idea of what John and the other VT residents have been dealing with for the last week...scary images.



http://www.mansfieldheliflight.com/flood/

Great pics. Having been in a flood many years ago and being uprooted from our home for 3 months this is a sobering reminder of the absolute disruption and change an event like this delivers to those involved. All that wet guts of homes and business's has to be hauled somewhere. And someone has to haul it. Mud in a home is difficult to wash out even with repeated power washes. That mud never really goes away. Shortages of everything occur because everybody needs to replace the same things. There are never enough hvac and plumbers to service everyone, especially when the locals have their own homes and business's to attend to. Then you get the flood of outsiders who come in to do repair work that is quick and shoddy. My heart always goes out to people who have had there homes flooded.

So I just entered a post the other day regarding the New England area and now am experiencing our own problems. Parents evacuated to my house. Business office in Forty Fort, Pa. Next to the Susquehanna river stripped and relocated to another facility location. People above and below slaughtered. Employees homeless. River above design spec. Over a week since I have driven the 968. Life is interesting eh?

Sorry to hear about the flooding up there. It finally stopped raining here and saw the sun about 4pm Friday for the first time since Monday. Lots of flooding in the DC area but not within 10 miles of me, sometimes it's good to live on a ridge line. There was some serious flooding over by Daryl and Cosimo, and the stuff in the counties south of me was the worst I've seen since Agnes and possibly even worse than Agnes. I know we have a couple of members in Southern Maryland that probably suffered some ill effects from all this rain. My driveway and front yard was a raging creek for a lot of the week and had a few trees come down but they were far away from the house. The regular creek on my property is 100 feet below my house so no way it was going to rise far enough to do any damage. I think the weather up there has driven the hummingbirds down here, my front porch is a hummingbird battle zone this morning far worse than normal and a little earlier than normal years.

Bridges still collapsing here. I lost my network connections to one of the plants yesterday when a section of the 103 washed away. The locks, which generally look like big bridges with dam plates under them, are entirely under water - even the bridge-like superstructure over the dam plates, which is 15-20 feet tall is under water!

Would you please send my humming birds back!! So far it looks like most of the Wyoming valley has dodged what in essence would be close to death shot. It will be interesting to watch to see how many small business's in areas flooded, who because of the economy were just hanging on, will make it back. People are incredibly resilient, I watched this 40 years ago, but the Federal gov't poured massive amounts of money in. Back then every homeowner received a $ 5000 grant to do whatever with. The SBA offered mortgages of 2 percent. Massive amounts of money were given to local communities to just help clean up. We ate Dinner at an Army canteen all summer because we had no power, no heat. We got back in in September. That flood was in June. Now it is September. Winter is just around the corner. Of course people are safe which is all that matters.

Not any damage at my house and at the shop (IMA). There was a commuter parking lot near me that was flooded. Can you imagine that shock to come home from work and see your car inundated with water. Had 3 deaths in Wash DC area .Forget what the terrorsits can do compared with Mother Nature.

Extensive flooding in Wilkes-Barre PA area. Quite a few homeowners were evacuated Thursday and I know some that still have no power, or are staying somewhere else on higher ground.

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Not any damage at my house and at the shop (IMA). There was a commuter parking lot near me that was flooded. Can you imagine that shock to come home from work and see your car inundated with water. Had 3 deaths in Wash DC area .Forget what the terrorsits can do compared with Mother Nature.

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