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RE: Waiting for the Power to Go Out
October 29, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Sandy's flinging snow our way at present. Started falling last night, they project up to 16 inches at the border, less as you get to the interior. Kind of sucks, you guys are getting hammered and I'm gonna get a nice early show of winter.
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RE: Waiting for the Power to Go Out
October 30, 2012 at 5:26 am
Glad to hear you guys are doing ok.
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RE: Waiting for the Power to Go Out
October 30, 2012 at 8:09 am
When you're up and running, let us know you are OK, as soon as you can, safely.
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Waiting for the Power to Go Out
October 30, 2012 at 8:14 am
We didn't even lose power! The winds have died down. It's still raining, but not as heavily as last night. I think DC did okay. We even got our newspaper on time this morning! Everything went better than expected. Not sure about NY though.
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RE: Waiting for the Power to Go Out
October 30, 2012 at 8:26 am
(October 30, 2012 at 8:14 am)festive1 Wrote: We didn't even lose power! The winds have died down. It's still raining, but not as heavily as last night. I think DC did okay. We even got our newspaper on time this morning! Everything went better than expected. Not sure about NY though.
Same here, we're still alive but with an over-abundance of batteries.
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RE: Waiting for the Power to Go Out
October 30, 2012 at 8:29 am
from what my news tells me, things got pritty wild - especialy in Virginia, New Jersey and New York.
hope everyone is all right.
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RE: Waiting for the Power to Go Out
October 30, 2012 at 8:56 am
For a Christian nation you all seem to collect natural disasters
Stay frosty out there guys
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RE: Waiting for the Power to Go Out
October 30, 2012 at 9:27 am
(October 30, 2012 at 8:56 am)LastPoet Wrote: For a Christian nation you all seem to collect natural disasters
Stay frosty out there guys
It's probably our lot fucking with the good karma we'd have coming otherwise from all our Christians. Ah well, what are you gonna do?
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RE: Waiting for the Power to Go Out
October 30, 2012 at 10:37 am
Great to hear!! Bound to be some re-building needed and then you have to wait until the flood waters subside and then there is the issue of getting food stocks BACK into your area and then................................... etc.
Still, not much loss of life and this is fantastic!
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RE: Waiting for the Power to Go Out
October 30, 2012 at 10:54 am
I just ventured out. It's a ghost-town, but the hardware and grocery stores were open (and I got front row parking!). We've had some water coming in the basement, which Hubby has been diligently shop-vaccing and he wanted me to grab some concrete filler. No real damage, and we had the bonus of finally pinpointing where our leaks were coming from, so it's actually a good thing.
I'm hoping everyone north of DC is okay. It sounds like the power is out to a lot of NJ, PA, and NY. Don't we have a mod who lives in NY? They got a lot of flooding. And I hope ShellB and Tiberius are snuggled up keeping warm. I haven't seen a report on how Boston fared, but hopefully everyone is well.
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