Here on the coast just south of Boston, we did pretty well. Interesting that we knew to expect more wind damage than water, being on the eastern side of the storm. But there's minimal damage to property, no flooding to speak of. Many neighboring towns are still without power, and will be for days, but we only had a couple of very brief interruptions yesterday. What surprised me most is the toll that the storm took in Vermont. Major flooding, damage to homes, towns, roadways, bridges... I'm not sure anyone expected that extent of destruction up there, being an inland state especially.
Today was as beautiful a day as we've had all summer, though. :) -c On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: > I spoke too soon yesterday. > > Shortly after 6:00 last night, our power started going on and off > again, every few minutes. Just as we were starting to prepare dinner, > the power went out. The Stove wouldn't light, so we had an unplanned > barbecue. It is still out at home, but we have power here in the > office. > > There is still flooding in this area. A portion of Readington Road > (County Route 637), which is my access to US 22, buckled because it > was undercut by flood waters. One lane was open, and construction was > under way, and I made it into Somerville without incident or delay. > > The Somerset County Court House is closed, as are others throughout > the state. We are still is a mess, with lost of closed and flooded > roads. The apartment building a few hundred yards from our office was > evacuated, and is still closed. > > This storm -- and the warnings -- were never about wind velocity. It > was always a question of the amount of water and the coastal and river > flooding. That has proved quite damaging in New Jersey, at least. A > lot of people have been evacuated and still cant return. A > substantial percentage of the homes are still out of power. Roads are > still closed because of flooding and flood damage. The rivers are > still rising in parts of the state. > > The warnings were appropriate. > > Dan > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 8/29/2011 04:27, David Mann wrote: >>> >>> On Aug 29, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >>> >>>> Well, we'll just have to disagree on this one. I believe it was indeed >>>> much ado about very little. >>> >>> I'm not surprised it seems this way. >> >> From what I saw it looked like they were expecting a lot worse than what >> actually happened. >> With Katrina in their minds they would not have wanted to screw >> this up as doing so would guarantee losing the next election. >> Except the our Mayor is in his last term... he isn't running again. Of >> course Chris Christy in NJ is another matter... >> >>>> The federal government declared New York a disaster area before it was a >>>> disaster area >>> >>> > >>> I did wonder about that :) >> >> I wonder if it's a procedural thing as making declarations >> like that can free up certain sources of funding, >> give extra legal powers, allow civil defence / >> the armed forces / national guard to be mobilised, and all that sort of >> thing. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Dave >>> >>> >> I actually didn't know it was that technically - but yes let us do remember >> Katrina where the government really screwed up a lot. >> >> OF course, I'm in NYC and having been in a situation where knowing all this >> stuff ahead of time really did matter one thing now occurs to me since there >> is a bit of grousing about the coverage... >> >> Didn't really know (and still don't) that the whole world was getting >> um saturated with TMI about it - we who live here in the path appreciated it >> And they did it without commercials, too. >> >> ann >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
