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This is for those people that know or remember Pat Noonan. He recently moved to Dartmouth. Nova Scotia. I have kept in touch with him and his wife Lisa. I was concerned when Atlantic Canada was hit by Hurricane Juan so I send them a message to see how they fared. Here is Lisa's response: >>snip Hi guys, It is Tuesday morning, and I am at work (Yeah?!) I left home this morning in the dark, and walked the 15 minutes I have to work expecting to turn around and head back home, but our Industrial park has some power. Looking around, I don't know if the folks on the other side of the street are up yet, but everyone on our strip is. Thank goodness the coffee shop is open!! Sunday night was an experience I won't soon forget. Juan hit around midnight, which is a couple of hours after high tide when they were predicting it to arrive. We were watching from the safety of our apartment. We are lucky; our apartment building faces east, and the path of the hurricane was due north. Also, we are on the south corner of our street, and it is a T-intersection with another apartment building at the south end of the street which gave us a little more protection. The eye of the storm must reached us between 12:30 and 1:00. Pat dragged me out onto the balcony to feel the power of the storm. Glad I did; it was very sobering to feel the strength of the winds, as protected as we were in our corner. Pat was outside when he watched one of the big trees in front of our building go down, that's when he came back inside. The street a block east of us was hit harder. It is a beautiful residential street with lots of big trees. There were several trees down which took out several power poles. We could see the explosions from our window, it was pretty dramatic. Monday morning we woke to a rainstorm, apparently unrelated to the previous night's event. The skies cleared by noon, and the city woke to a sunny day. We walked a bit around our neighbourhood and checked out the local damage. One apartment building up the block had most of the siding torn from it's south side, and I think it was missing part of the roof. We found pink insulation five or six blocks away from it. The building beside it also had a roof missing. We are about 1km from the waterfront, where most of the damage was suffered. I have not seen yet, but I hear that several boats are gone, Lisa Whalen (my co-worker) said a yacht club close to her home was totalled. Parts of the famous Halifax boardwalk have been washed away. Salty's is a famous waterfront restaruant, and it is apparently now a part of the water. Pat called me this morning to tell me that our power is back on at the apartment. The power companies are hoping to have full power to most of HRM by Thursday at the latest. The downtown of Dartmouth and Halifax will be without power for probably the rest of today at least. We were lucky also because we don't have a deep freezer yet, so even our food spoilage was minimal. A single mom on our block was saying she just stocked her freezer Saturday, and now it is all gone. Better get to work; we have a day to catch up on! Thanx for the email; keep in touch. We are still healthy and safe in Atlantic Canada! >> snip - -- Jarrod Major GPG Fingerprint: FA4A 1EA3 A0EE A842 07BB 804C 0090 14F6 BE6E DE3D Registered Linux User: #224211 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBP3nUZwCQFPa+bt49AQJ1+wQArbUHeQS7Z/OhPRL1cfcP+C6jdCXL5FpV CeGP+cfv8/f/n/DsGeImti6CPiJuEye17Aq/QSqEw/8DhaEU0EpnvVHFRPe1C70t W6Kwr/suo4R/eE1BeLnH7JciX8I2Pu2ERi3tJ8qFyAokDdvc4++0qnzS7hpqroWR bqzIEPkBPPU= =hDWf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
