Hi Folks - just an update. We are all OK. No damage to the house. No power. 36 1/2 hours without power and counting.
We lost power around 9:30pm Thursday night, the storm peaked around 1:00AM (Friday morning) and battered us till around 4:00AM. We lost 2 large trees. I estimate that at the peak the winds were around 50 mph sustained with gusts hitting 70 mph.
I was up all night "standing watch". I have to say that I did get very worried at one point about our well being. Hearing large trees snapping (which really sounds like a huge cracking sound) and crashing down (the close ones shook teh ground) all around you is very sobering!
The reports have it at around 1 million household with out power, and it seems to be very slow work to repair the damage. It's hard to describe, but basically there isn't a place where there isn't a tree snapped or blown over. There is a lot of damage to the whole grid, those repair guys are earning thier keep big time.
The power company estimates that we could be out of power for up to a week (YIKES) but we do have a generator and we are hoping to have power restored sooner than that.
I will be posting some images of our area soon as I get my act together - basically we are in "survival mode" and to tell you the truth IT'S A LOT OF WORK!
That's it for now ... will update as we can
Posted by Timothy at December 16, 2006 9:53 AM