East Coast Members Stay Safe

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah, well, I blew my 2009 tax return on one. It was worth the $1200. Just saying if you could ever do it, that it's worth it.

[RedSidedSPR]

I know. Very worth it. Along with a nice PC.... seriously needed. But seriously can't.

[Mommy2many]

Hi Everyone!

We are safe and back on the grid (so to speak)
Thank you, Steve, for letting everyone know we were still around; just a little unreachable for awhile

Had to go out today for appointments, many very large trees down and flooding. Connecticut still has 600,000 or so without power (that's alot for our state). That is around 20% of the population of CT.

My sister is a teacher in a neighboring town that has no power what so ever. They were scheduled to start today. They are now starting school on September 6th.

All in all, we fared ok. There is so much going on around here, that I hate to think what it would be like if we were hit with a category 1 hurricane or higher. We initially had a tropical storm, with alot of rain on Saturday into Sunday and the strongest winds appeared to be after the eye went thru, yesterday.

Thank you all for the concern and warm thoughts!

Le Ann

[brain]

Good to hear all is well ...

[Gene0514]

I was in Aruba during the hurricane although it did affect me there as well (flight was canceled, and was pretty hard to book another flight). Everything seems ok. No damage to our house, we didn't even get a power outage. Was a bit worried about the native snakes so I went over to the empty lot we find many garters and brown snakes at today and found 4 garters (one of which was a baby about 4") and a baby brown snake in like 10 min or less, so the native snakes seem to be fine. Unfortunately a large pond known as Wolfe's Pond was destroyed. It is right next to the ocean so the only thing keeping the water in was a dam, which got breached and the pond drained out and seawater came in. Many fish, turtles, and even water snakes lived there. Garter snakes lived around it as well. Not sure if anything is still there. I'm gonna visit that pond soon to see how bad the damage is.

[guidofatherof5]

Keep an eye on Katie. Looks like she's next in line to hit the East Coast.
Tropical Storm KATIA
Gulf Coast members have Lee(thirteen) to contend with. Possibly 20 inches of rain in some areas.
Tropical Depression THIRTEEN

[ConcinusMan]

Oh good grief

[RedSidedSPR]

What he said... hope that's not too bad.

[snakehill]

I'm back! Lost power Sunday at 8:45 am. Power was back on Wednesday at 12:50 pm. Cable did not come back on until 15 minutes ago! I have 1454 posts to read on this forum!

[RedSidedSPR]

Hehehe