Xeno, welcome back to connectivity. The one thing that was in the news 24/7 was the impact of the falling trees - shot after shot after shot from personal media sent in. Whole news hours dedicated to falling trees - at least it seemed that way. Judy's story should be interesting when she gets back, and I am glad you and the house you were in made it through safely.
________________________________ From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius <anartax...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 5, 2012 6:02 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Not So Super Tuesday to Xeno --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > Xeno! You're alive and powered up! And both intelligently and humorously > biting! But what the heck are you doing posting so briefly?! For God's > sake man, we want details! What happened? Are you back in Brewster? Is > everyone ok? Are you camping out somewhere or back home? Oy, men!   Well it is expected to be 20F tonight here, but the power finally came back on. My egress to a safer clime was stymied by fatique preparing for the storm, and I eventually thought it better not to drive all night when there were continuous gusts of wind in the 40mph range. Eventually winds got up to about 80mph. I slept through that part. Neighbors told me they went out side briefly then and heard all sorts of cracking sounds as trees broke. Hundreds of telphone poles, which are basically tidied up trees, were damaged in the area and have to be replaced. There are hundreds of power line trucks roving the towns here, many from states as far as Indiana, Michigan, and the National Guard also same in with heavy equipment to remove fallen trees so the power companies could repair lines. My brother in law is no doubt pleased that his home did not suffer harm from the storm, and pehaps more pleased that he was a thousand miles away quite safe, quite unlike many homes in the area, some of which were bashed by two or more trees; there were some injuries. Trees grow about 75 to 100 feet tall here and have shallow roots due to rocky soil. But many just snapped off at the top, middle, or near the base, some of these trees four feet across near the base. I saw cars flattened by fallen trees. Many towns had more than 100 roads blocked by fallen trees so immediately after the main hit of the storm, travel was impossible. It was uncomfortably cold, but I had a gas stove that can be lit with matches (for cooking food - you do not leave these things on when sleeping or for heat). Fortunately, I live near Interstate 84 and across the state line very close in the city of Danbury, Connecticut, there is a large mall and several smaller ones that did not suffer a serious power outage, so food etc., was not difficult to get there after the first two days We need to think of our dear Judith Stein, who lived one block from the beach somewhere in New Jersey. She must have evacuated as she did before Irene last year, but it seems likely where she lived was destroyed. She was offline during that time last year so I am supposing she did not have a laptop, or at least no connectivity where she went then. I overheard a conversation with someone who had talked to a friend who lived some 6 to 8 houses back from the beach somewhere in New Jersey and his friend reported that his home was trashed, and that diesel fuel spilled from boats that were washed inland permeated the interiors of the houses as it came in with the water and mud and sewage. So at this point Judy may not have a place to live. Perhaps she finally met an adversary she could not argue down. Her situation might be more similar to those that experienced the tsunami that devastated Japan last year, where whole cities were wiped off the map or severely ruined.
