As of now, almost every storm track model has the eye of this puppy passing right over my neck of the woods later today. I’m assuming that at some point, we’ll lose power. For now, though, it’s just rainy and as blustery as Pacione on a bender. We’re too far inland, and at too high an elevation to worry about storm surge, but I do anticipate a lot of downed trees and road washouts.
Cell phones, fully charged, check. Bag of charcoal for the grill, check. Gasoline for the Coleman stove, check. Oil lamps filled, check. Jugs and a tubful of potable water, check. Flashlights and spare batteries, check. Patio furniture moved to the basement, check. Picnic table and benches turned upside down, check. Wood for the fireplace, check. Pretty much, the whole house runs on electricity, including the water pump, which means no flushing toilets once the power goes out, unless we manually fill the tank. Fun stuff.
For any of my readers slated to get hit by this storm, please stay safe and warm, and don’t go anywhere unless you have to. It’s time to batten down the hatches.
Here’s hoping everyone but the east coast nitwits is safe from the storm!
Good luck, Rusty! Stay dry.
Same to you. It looks like you’ll get a taste of it, too.
The lights started flickering like crazy about half an hour ago, so we dug out a big bag of tea lights from the china hutch, just in case. Fingers crossed.
We came through just fine. What about the rest of you?
We lost power for a mere 23 hours, and only had to make one pot of “cowboy coffee” in the old Pioneerware percolator on the charcoal grill. Not bad, considering that most of our county still has no power a day after ours came back on. The fried FiOS box got replaced today — a day earlier than I was told when I reported the outage and made the appointment. Nice!
It’ll take some time to chainsaw all the downed sassafras trees in the front yard, but it’ll make good (free!) firewood once it cures properly. There’s no real rush to get that done.
I wonder how Robin is. Bet they’re still without electricity.
I got my power back around 2:45 yesterday. Internet a little before 7 pm today. This was very scary to go through. Luckily my house is up on a hill, so I didn’t suffer property damage due to flooding, however many of my neighbors either lost their houses completely, or their first floors were under water. I had hot water after the storm, but my heat and stove are electric, so I had to make do using my fireplace and BBQ grill. We got a generator by the 3rd day. Did not see the Red Cross or FEMA at all during this entire thing, and Staten Island had ZERO gas stations open, so the lines were miles long at the few open stations near me. We were lucky though, we found a local station that was open 24 hrs, so we’d go early in the morning and fill all of our gas cans, then filled all of our cars and the generator, then filled any plastic container we could find with the gas from the gas cans we filled at the station. Rinse and repeat. We had a lot of gas stored up after 3 early morning gas runs. The Friday before the storm I had made a supply run, so we had a lot of water, and canned food like soup and stuff that didn’t need refrigeration. All in all, we were well prepared and got through it better than most. My heart goes out to those who suffered losses. This storm was nuts!
Yay, you’re back, relatively unscathed. We had to do the fireplace and BBQ thing too, but only for a day. Well, this time of year, we light a fire in the fireplace most nights, but only for a few hours. Fortunately, it wasn’t the dead of winter. I think you’re the last of my regular readers to get back online after the storm.
Well, I’m only a block from the ocean (bay) so it’s been difficult for those of us along the shore to recover. I know many more who are still waiting, and now we have to worry about that Nor’easter coming in a few days. I truly hope everyone gets their power back before that. It’s been freezing the past few nights.