Stay safe . Think of all of you and your furbabies in this terrible storm
Stay safe everyone!
Hahahaha! This is making me laugh so hard! I stopped watching the weatherweenies at TWC after they had no clue that the state of Mississippi was not in fact called "The Land Mass between New Orleans and Mobile". You are a weather person and you don't know the name of a state?? Really?? They earned their "weenie" title big time with that goof up!Everybody is a "weenie" around here! We have local weatherweenies, TWC weatherweenies, and the technoweenies from Staples, Best Buy, and such. Our MIS guy at work is our MIS-weenie (much to his dismay....I called him that one time and it stuck; everybody calls him that now) . I call everybody weenies of some form! I always have.
I'm hoping that Sandy is all hype, but we're not taking any chances.
Congrats on getting the little girl, Laurie!
Thanks, Winchester! We're fine. The power only went out for 15 minutes at 4PM yesterday. We had a few flickers later. However, someone on the street behind has a generator running (I can hear it from my upstairs bathroom, but I can't see who it is).We're fine here....so far. It's aout 7:15 a.m. on Tuesday morning and we are fine. The power hasn't gone out and our freezer is OK (that was a worry here). I can't see our trees as it's still dark outside, so I have no idea what shape they're in. But we're OK.
The wind is still howling and it's still raining.
Safe thoughts going out to everybody in Sandy's path! (I'm glad Laurie is OK, even though she has no power.)
MargeCat, I hope you're doing OK!!!!
That's good to hear! New York got hit so bad - I shudder when I think of all those people in Queens who've lost their homes.Luckily, I got through it (Midtown Manhattan) without losing power, no damage. Howling wind last night around my windows and through my hallways.
Very relieved to see this post!!! NOW I wish for your power to be restored quickly. I know that NJ has power outages of about 65% or more. I just hope they get to your area first. :nod: :cross:Marge, I'm so glad there was no more leaking!
It seems everyone weathered the storm OK! Mega, massive vibes to all those affected...
Carolina, Lauren, thanks for sharing updates!
Right now I don't think my texts are going through, we can't make cell calls, and there are no landlines. We're running the generator for the first time - there's very little rain, so we were comfortable the kitties would be OK.
The freezer is running and getting back up to temp, and we're charging everything up. :-} The cell signal booster obviously got blow out of place, so internet depends on which way the wind is blowing. :lol3:
I think we got really lucky - the wind is pretty normal outside, and it's just a light rain now, so who knows when they'll get to the power lines around here, but it is theoretically possible they're working on it today (we're just not in any kind of priority area - no businesses, low population density).
My internet is REALLY slow - it took like 15 minutes for TCS to load, no idea how long it will take for this message to post. :lol3:
There's debris everywhere, but no damage right around us - we haven't been out of the park yet.
Baloo, Smokey, Fog, Dot and Tommy were here for breakfast. I'm sure Khol is OK, she was here for both meals yesterday. Babygirl and Peanutbutter were here yesterday too. Tabby is the only "regular" I haven't seen recently. :cross:
No idea what we're going to do about Itty Bitty at the vet.