Hello from Albany, NY,
My neck of the woods was mostly spared by Irene (a neighbor's small-ish
dead tree was uprooted, tipped over the fence and hit some of my
under-producing tomato plants and I lost power Sunday night), but the
geography around here creates some very localized weather and places 15-20"
away and those closer to the Hudson or Mohawk Rivers were really hit. So
there were major floods in downtowns and communities east and west, mudslides,
buildings knocked off foundations, bridges closed and roads buckled.
My office was closed until this morning--it's to the north on an island
which was blocked by flooding and had no power until late last night. There
was actually a row boat tied up to a stop sign a few blocks from one of our
bridges--it apparently came in handy over the weekend. Communities in the
Hudson Valley to the south and the Adirondacks and Vermont to the north were
really socked (all those tiny communities built long ago around the local
mill), lots of farms terribly damaged. It is incredible--so many people in
Vermont are still isolated. Friends can't reach family yet. Hope Jane
Viking and Susan MacLeod are OK up there.
I thought it was going to be a good day for lacing but it was too
distracting, so I turned to knitting and reading and listening to the sweet,
reassuring sound of the basement sump pump.
Regards,
Lorraine Weiss
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