Storm Sandy

I'm back online since storm Sandy hit the northeast.  Here's a recap of how Sandy affected us.  Monday 10/29/12 tree fell on wires next door at 5:30 p.m.  ripped siding off their house- sparks flew by our kitch window.
We lost power Monday 10/29 at midnight.  that meant no electricity, cable or phones.

 Thursday November 1st transformer blew on High St. - it fell onto the thruway! when it blew it made a loud boom sound...very scary.  This happened around 11 a.m.  we can see the thruway from our backyard...couldn't see where exactly it fell because of course the emergency crews wouldn't let anyone near it....that's a good thing.  From my backyard I could see the police re-routing the cars and big tractor trailers on the thruway this meant they had to do a U-turn on the thruway to exit the thruway.  It was surreal seeing cars and trucks going the wrong way on the thruway.  The thruway was closed for was closed for a few hours while the emergency crews did their thing.  Because of this problem they shut off our gas! so now we have no power, no phones, no cable and no gas....no hot water!  Oh well, that's life.  next a firetruck came down our little dead end street to hook up to our fire hydrant for more water to stop the fire from the blown transformer.  While all this was going on chopper 8 helicoper was hoovering overhead.  Needless to say we decided to drive to our S-I-L house a few cities away to stay the night so we could have heat and hot shower.  This is Thursday night.  went back home on Friday to find the gas back on...yeah!  Saturday came and went and still no power.  Sunday morning comes no power....but all of a sudden around 3:30 p.m. we have lights!  So all is good again in the world.

A little more on Irene

Been without power/phone for 4 days because of Hurricane Irene so there is a lot of catching up to do here and in house.  Hope you have liked the little (no sound) videos I uploaded here:  http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/2011/09/duck-pond.html and here:  http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/2011/08/hurricane-irene-is-out-of-here.html .  Only figured out to do 60 second video without sound maybe in future will figure out how to tape longer and with sound.

The day after the hurricane we took a ride downtown to duck pond ..... all that water and the ducks/geese just hanging out.  Check out the benches in the water!  Hard to believe the water went up that far since we didn't have that much rain from hurricane just lots of winds. 

See me in the dark with glow stick and hurricane candle!  glad to have power back.

Duck pond

This are two short videos at our duck pond downtown the day after Hurricane Irene. 

Hurricane Irene is out of here!

We had so much time on our hand during hurricane my husband figured out how to make a video but no sound.  take a look and leave a comment to let me know it worked.

Hurricane Irene is coming

Sounds like they are saying Irene is coming here Sunday morning so battened down the hatches!  Stores here in town are saying they are going to close up early today starting around 2 p.m.  That's stores like bead shop here in town and such.  Don't know about grocery stores but we went there yesterday.  Only thing we couldn't find was size D batteries so hopefully the batteries in our flashlights hold up or we will be in the dark if we loose power.  Other than that all is good here.