Tag: Hurricane Irene



   Irene came and went… taking about 30 homes on the shoreline with her.  She also knocked down many powerlines and trees, washed out roads and left, I think,  half of Connecticut without power, water, groceries, gas.  There are crews from Michigan and Arizona on my sister’s street alone, trying to restore services.  This is where I sit now… at her computer.  She has a generator and internet when it’s running.

  This Old House lost four trees and alot of branches, but no major damage.  We also have a generator that was installed just two weeks ago (LUCK!).  So life for us is pretty OK compared to many others in our town.  There is a water truck that delivers to the town center every day, where people line up to fill their containers.  Groceries and gas are bought in the next town over.  Not all THEIR power is up yet either, but atleast some are selling provisions. The shoreline was hit the hardest along the coast.  I walked among the houses with my camera, and then realized how rude that probably was, as people were desperately trying to clean up the mess that was left. The expressions on faces down there were raw, shocked.

  They say we should have power, cable, internet back next Tuesday if all goes well. Let’s hope that storm brewing out in the Atlantic doesn’t decide to take up where Irene left off.   We’ve had enough.

  Until Tuesday, then –