Gunshots! (Pic heavy)

Nope - the sound of trees/limbs cracking!

If you kept up with the Hurricane thread, I posted there I was up most of last night. Didn't seem too bad, we were west of the worst of it. Wind, but nothing like I expected. Yes, a LOT of rain. It rained heavily for about 14 hours.

So I went to sleep this morning, and woke up about 2:00pm (!!!) to the bus rocking. It wasn't raining any longer... but the wind was really going crazy.

I looked out the window - and was shocked at what I saw, because when I went to sleep, there wasn't much but some branches and leaves flung around.

This is pretty much what I saw, even though this was taken outside:



Gary joined me. We thought we heard gunshots! We figured out pretty quickly - it wasn't gunshots, it was trees (or big limbs or branches) coming down!



Of course, the ground was so wet before all this rain, a lot of trees just... fell over.



We decided to move the car:



Good thing we did. It wouldn't have fallen on the car the direction it ended up going, but still - this is that tree that was half standing:



This is one site over, poor battered tree!



This is what it looked like 2 hours later (notice a tree is down behind it now, in addition to the tree already down in front of it!)



I walked down to the end of our dead-end road to take a picture:



And, finally, here's Baloo coming up to tell me all about what had been going on!

We got VERY lucky. The woods behind us are a MESS. The power line is covered in tree branches. There was a rather large branch that came down right behind us and SPEARED the ground. I didn't take a picture, but it was freaky.

We got our power back. nj.com describes the power situation in a lot of counties/areas as playing "whack-a-mole." But at least our substation isn't under water. *phew*

Wow...Laurie...I'm glad you guys are ok!! Hang in there and hopefully that is the worst of it.

Send the rain this way!!! We need it BADLY!!!!

Originally Posted by LDG

The power line is covered in tree branches. There was a rather large branch that came down right behind us and SPEARED the ground

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Yup, downed power lines and flying debris are always what scare me the most!

Yikes! Glad you got your power back. I was just looking at pics people are posting on one of the local news channel's facebook page...I'm so grateful for how much we were spared! I feel very blessed and grateful.

I need to go get milk for DD tomorrow and we could use some perishables for us too...just trying to find out if one route to the store would be better than others. I can't find much info online. DH was saying if they are only delaying schools tomorrow it should be fine out...then I saw all these pics!! The last time I looked our power company was down to just over 100 customers without power; down from over 5000 I think. From some pics I saw I'm pretty sure my old job will have nearly flooded if not flooded. We almost did once when I was still working and pregnant with DD. Sad since I worked for a good woman; and being an audiologist she had a good bit of equipment there.

Tomorrow the little one and I are going to play pick up the pine cones. I think she'll get a kick out of putting them in a bucket... And then she'll probably dump them too... lol

At first I thought you were all vandalized and someone crazy had a gun .....I am just SOOOOOOOOO thankful you are ALL alright, kitties included. Was that your RV in the second photo? , It is sideways a bit.......I hope that wasn't yours . And, Baloo, what a character, he looks so relieved that everyone survived the storm.

My goodness, I am SO glad you guys are safe! How scary!

glad you are alright. it is scary when you see all the broken and downed trees.

Glad you are ok, great pics! I am so glad we didn't lose power, which is weird because we've been losing our power a lot lately from just small rainstorms.

Thank heaven you, Gary, and the fur-kids are all safe!
Snapping tree limbs sound amazingly like gunshots, don't they? When our city had it's big wind storm back in June, it was reported that 1700 tress were downed or damaged. That's a lot of treee!
Hope you're thru the worst of it now, Laurie. Let the clean-up begin!

Glad you are all ok, amazing that nothing landed on you

Some may remember we had a pretty heavy snow storm this winter in Texas. I was standing out front when the tree across the street split in half, and yes, it did sound like a gunshot!

I guess Baloo had some scary stories to tell you!

Glad you and yours are safe - please continue to be careful.

OMG Laurie, how dangerous! I'm so glad you and Gary and the kitties are ok. Wow, that must have been really noisy, all those trees breaking and falling. Baloo loosk like nothing has happened, brave kitty!

I'm so glad you're all all right! That had to have been scary for you.

Honestly, I don't know that it was scary so much as... weird. After the rain departed, it was actually a beautiful day. Grey for most of the afternoon, but the sun did come out. It was a perfect temp, just REALLY windy for a while there. It was like a thunderstorm moving through when you hear the lightening... only it wasn't lighting.

I'm glad you guys, and the cats are ok

Nothing serious around my house, small branches down. Driving around saw some trees down, some parking lots flooded, 1 tree split in half. The malls were closed today. The fast food places were closed today as well. CVS was open, that was about it.

There was a lot more damage during the ice storm.

Thank goodness!!!! I'm so glad you're both ok, and the kitties too!

Whew! That title scared me too -- I thought drunken hunters in the woods going after your ferals, stray bullets through your windows, Gary going postal on some idiot with a rifle... I was half out of my chair before the thread opened and I saw you were okay!