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Oct. 30th, 2012 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly(They had power through the storm, ours just came back yesterday afternoon!)
So I can't remember my Dreamwidth password and don't intend to spend several minutes at 10 cents a minute trying. It's only chance that I stumbled upon the right one for LJ! I'll crosspost this entry when I have internet at home, or if I can recharge the ipad properly.
So, the storm was every bit as bad as it could've been. We lost power Monday night, and it didn't come back for quite awhile, sometime Wednesday afternoon. I ended up giving away several of our frozen chickens to a friend because I was worried about them going bad, they couldn't fit in the deep freezer (which is full of chickens. We're barely keeping our head above chicken here.)
By Tuesday, the girls were at each other's throats. We went up the hill and found a working pizzeria, that was huge news to them, and then we went down by the water to see the ship that had beached itself during the storm. EVERYTHING just a block, two blocks closer to the water than we are got flooded out. We forget how close we are because we're on a fairly steep hill, but we're *close*. The girls actually slept in the basement on Monday, because it was so windy, which seems backwards but really, the surge would've had to have been a lot worse than it was to affect us up this hill. It was bad enough as it was! As I was getting pizza I heard a man from Midland talking, he was in his house (should've evacuated) watching TV and the next minute the water was in his house over his head. Ended up spending the rest of the storm with his wife and cats (two of which he lost) on his roof, and he was hardly alone. Lots of people should've left earlier who didn't.
There are 24 confirmed dead in NYC, 14 of whom are from the Island. And I *know* our total is at least two higher than that, an awful story, some woman right on the water panicked and tried to flee her home after the storm hit, much too late, and her two young kids were swept right out of her hands. The bodies haven't been found, so they're not "confirmed", but.... God, what an awful way to lose your children. There can't possibly be any worse way.
Anyway, I'll be more cheerful in the next post. I don't want to combine depressing and cheerful in the same post, it seems disrespectful.
So I can't remember my Dreamwidth password and don't intend to spend several minutes at 10 cents a minute trying. It's only chance that I stumbled upon the right one for LJ! I'll crosspost this entry when I have internet at home, or if I can recharge the ipad properly.
So, the storm was every bit as bad as it could've been. We lost power Monday night, and it didn't come back for quite awhile, sometime Wednesday afternoon. I ended up giving away several of our frozen chickens to a friend because I was worried about them going bad, they couldn't fit in the deep freezer (which is full of chickens. We're barely keeping our head above chicken here.)
By Tuesday, the girls were at each other's throats. We went up the hill and found a working pizzeria, that was huge news to them, and then we went down by the water to see the ship that had beached itself during the storm. EVERYTHING just a block, two blocks closer to the water than we are got flooded out. We forget how close we are because we're on a fairly steep hill, but we're *close*. The girls actually slept in the basement on Monday, because it was so windy, which seems backwards but really, the surge would've had to have been a lot worse than it was to affect us up this hill. It was bad enough as it was! As I was getting pizza I heard a man from Midland talking, he was in his house (should've evacuated) watching TV and the next minute the water was in his house over his head. Ended up spending the rest of the storm with his wife and cats (two of which he lost) on his roof, and he was hardly alone. Lots of people should've left earlier who didn't.
There are 24 confirmed dead in NYC, 14 of whom are from the Island. And I *know* our total is at least two higher than that, an awful story, some woman right on the water panicked and tried to flee her home after the storm hit, much too late, and her two young kids were swept right out of her hands. The bodies haven't been found, so they're not "confirmed", but.... God, what an awful way to lose your children. There can't possibly be any worse way.
Anyway, I'll be more cheerful in the next post. I don't want to combine depressing and cheerful in the same post, it seems disrespectful.
