--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" <steve.sundur@...> wrote: > > or maybe forgot the charger.
I gather "she" is moi... I'm baaaaack. Had to stay away longer than I'd planned because NJ Transit took awhile to get its trains in order after the storm. My building survived with no damage whatsoever, flood or wind, not even a power outage. A block and a half away, a small tornado touched down and tore the roof off a house, and there were downed trees, widespread power outages, and some fairly serious street flooding elsewhere in town. I'm burning incense in gratitude to the weather gods. I do have a laptop, but it's too heavy for me to lug comfortably, so I didn't bring it with me. Right before I left I did get a Kindle, the most recent model with 3G and Wi-fi and an "experimental" browser. I got it mainly so I wouldn't have to bring books to read, and while that was a great convenience, the browser turned out to be the most useful feature, especially after the power went out where I was staying. "Experimental" it may be, but it worked just beautifully for Web sites that have a version formatted for mobile devices, including news and service sites (NY Times, NJ Transit, Google, e.g.). Sites without a mobile version were harder to navigate, in some cases impossible, including my ISP's Webmail. So no email, but my sister (up in Vermont) and I were able to keep in touch via direct messages on Twitter. (She came through with no wind or flood damage either.) I didn't try to access FFL; figured you all could get along without me until I got back, and I didn't want to run the Kindle's battery down (I did bring its charger, but that's not much use when the power's out). A charged battery lasts for weeks if all you're doing is reading what's stored on the Kindle, but using wireless to browse sucks up the charge pretty fast. I gather nobody else on FFL was in the path of the storm, unless their power's still out. Curtis is in D.C., but I haven't heard or read that things were particularly bad there--right, Curtis? Very strange storm, very choosy about whom it spared and whom it hit hard along its extraordinarily broad path.
