<p>The wind here in eastern MA is whipping pretty good, we’ve got some big branches down (that fortunately missed the power lines). There are a lot of power outages due to downed trees, but we fortunately still have power and cable. We’ve had 3+ inches of rain so far, lots of flooding in low areas.</p>
<p>DD is in Massachusetts. She’s in Framingham this week, waiting to move in to her apartment in Waltham at the beginning of the month. She called earlier this morning to say she’s without power. She said the wind howled a bit but it hasn’t been nearly as bad as what she expected and has certainly seen worse, especially with the flooding we experienced last year in Nashville and the occasional tornadoes we get here. I’m so glad this thing has not been as bad as expected.</p>
<p>House in S. Jersey has no electricity, which means basement is flooding (pumps off.) Lost a couple ceiling tiles up here in N. Jersey, and some basement water. Sounds like Monmouth Co was hard hit; sister-in-law has tree on house–family ok, thankfully.</p>
<p>Boys are fine. Hope everyone and their far-flung family members don’t have serious problems.</p>
<p>Just got back from tennis. Main road had trees cleared back 20 feet from the power lines this past summer so basically nothing on the road. Side roads had lots of twigs and leaves and a very small number of branches. We had a brutal winter snow-wise so a lot of stuff that would have fallen has already done so.</p>
<p>On the way back, I drove through a huge puddle of water - I thought that my car was going to stall out but it didn’t. I’m going to post something on one of the town websites about it.</p>
<p>Son in East Boston still has power, my parents in north east CT lost power early this am but they are dyed in the wool New Englanders so no worries there… they gone a week without it before.</p>
<p>Got off the phone with my son. He said that Marist college just had a flash flood and his car is under water!!!</p>
<p>NY governor Cuomo just said on TV there was also a small earthquake near Albany last night right by a big dam. Two earthquakes and a hurricane is a lot for one week. If anyone sees the “Planet of the Apes” apes walking around lower Manhattan it wouldn’t surprise me now.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear, Nysmile. I’m glad to hear your son checked in though!! Property can be replaced.</p>
<p>Hope everyone “weathers” this storm well - as a utility employee (who will probably have the rest of my vacation cancelled for storm duty), I just have a request that, if you see a crew from out of town during restoration efforts in your area (we have called crews from as far away as Texas to help us) - THANK THEM! They will be away from their families, probably through the Labor Day holiday at least, doing a dangerous job.</p>
<p>As a New Yorker, I’m now just waiting for the locusts.</p>
<p>Rachacha, you are so right about utility crews going to help–do thank them. Our Florida electric co-op (America’s largest!) probably already has crews on way up. They will be away from their own families helping out in lousy conditions. I remember one of the past storms when a crew of our guys was on their way back and they stopped to eat at a restaurant and some lowlifes stole all their belongs and tools out of their trucks while they were inside eating. Pretty low! 99.999% of folks are very grateful for what they do though.</p>
<p>We got by with little damage to either our home or businesses. As expected , one of our locations flooded , but we didn’t lose anything in terms of inventory. We were pretty worried last night with the local reports of tornadoes so we evacuated to our garage apt since it is all on one floor with only one window. We were glad that we decided to stay put despite mandatory evacuation orders. The way they were calling the storm turned out to be correct and where many people from our area fled to , turned out to have worse flooding and power outages than we had here in our own home. My husband had to pump out our pool 5X through the night
One the lighter side , our corgis were in heaven with all of the comforters and sleeping people on the floors…the cats on the other hand were not diggin it whatsoever :D</p>
<p>We live in Northwest Ohio and saw a convoy of 20ish utility trucks heading east on the Ohio Turnpike yesterday likely heading east or southeast to help out.</p>
<p>We’re getting some interesting flooding in northern VT … not so good since the flooding will continue to worsen into the night. Definitely not a good idea for our teens to drive to or from their friends home until tomorrow at daylight. I hope SoozieVT is okay; I think she is in the lower part of VT and they just had some terrible flash floods based on what I saw on the news. The wind is not has bad as they predicted yesterday, but bad enough to cause 2 power outages so far, but somehow it came back on while the storm is still here.</p>
<p>Hi Snowflake. I am not in the lower part of Vermont. I don’t want to give an exact location but I live in North Central Vermont in the mountains. It has been raining heavily here all day nonstop. I luckily have power. I am now reading on some Facebook walls of some local people that there are flooded roads in my community as well as villages/homes by the river and so it sounds pretty bad. I have no way of knowing much as I live on a dirt road in the mountains on higher ground and i am not going to venture out. But I think there is flooding going on here in my community.</p>
<p>Son just emailed pictures from Marist College–one big mess. We’re pretty sure his car is totaled from the flash flood. The first floor of his on campus townhouse is flooded. He said one of the laundry rooms on campus is 6 feet under water. He also said that the Hudson River is over the train tracks.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.marist.edu/[/url]”>http://www.marist.edu/</a>
Update on campus flood damage.</p>
<p>^^ OMG nysmile! Soo sorry to hear of all the damage ! WOW.</p>
<p>Weird thing is that we live way out on the east end of Long Island. We have the bay and the ocean here and we’re fine. I wasnt at all concerned about Poughkeepsie getting much damage from the storm. I guess I was wrong. </p>
<p>I feel very bad for one of his housemates. The kid bought his car a month ago and it’s probably totaled. We’ve all ready contacted our car insurance company and they’re going to send someone to the college to evaluate son’s car. There’s water inside the car up to the level of the middle of the steering wheel. We told him to relax because there’s nothing he can do to change what has happened. Things like this just happen in life.</p>
<p>Soozie … glad you are staying put. I’m keeping one eye on the ‘small’ stream in my back yard that has promoted itself to a small moving lake. </p>
<p>nysmile … sorry to hear about your son’s car, but so glad he was smart enough to stay inside. How strange to hear about flooding in VT and NY this time of year when we usually worry about this in the spring.</p>