Many of you know that I know that I live in the northeast–or as I uncharitably refer to it, the frozen north.
As a general rule, we have much worse winter storms than summer storms. This last week, however, has been a bit of an exception. On Thursday, tropical storm Fred roared through in the pre-dawn hours. We received 5 inches of rain in a very brief period of time and there was flash flooding all over my town.
So Hurricane Henri was quite a threat, with its winds and rain.
I just have this to deal with this this time. I got lucky.
This, however, is directly across the street. I have talked to my neighbor. She is fine–other than the fact that she can’t get out of her garage.
So things seem pretty good in the immediate vicinity. I haven’t ventured much farther from my house than this because of the conditions. Tomorrow will tell the larger story. But at least power and cable are still on–the basics.
Glad you are okay. Stay safe.
Thanks! More rain today. To think that all I wish for was just a little rain for the garden. 🙂 Be careful what you wish for…
Karla
Living on Long Island, I too am glad that Henri decided to go elsewhere! I spent Saturday doing every requires-electricity thing I could think of (vacuuming, laundry, hair washing/drying) because even the power company was saying ON SATURDAY that it could be 2 weeks before they could “restore” everyone. Luckily that timeframe didn’t need to be tested!
I did exactly the same thing! (Please tell me why it was so important to have a clean house if I was going to be without electricity for 3 weeks? Laundry and ironing, yes, but vacuuming? At the end of 3 weeks without electricity, I shudder to think what my rugs would look like!) I can’t imagine what “camping in my home” would have been like for 3 weeks, but I am very grateful that I didn’t have to find out–and even more grateful we had power crews here on standby to send to Rhode Island, where they do need them!
Karla
Gee, I was about to say that it must be nice to get rain in August, but that tree across the street is not so nice.
When it started to rain last Thursday, that’s exactly what I thought. “Great! Nature is watering, ” because we hadn’t had any rain all month. Eight inches later, there are trees all over the state that look like that, and even places where roads have washed out. I am always grateful when these storms turn away because I see what a mess a a glancing blow can be.
Karla