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Good to see you back,Barb..Must have been a bit scary,with all the wind for several hours..Sounds like a good little party,,Steaks and scallops,and ice cold beer..what more could you want??(bourbon:D) Welcome home..Glad to hear that montes ok..Good thing ya werent in upstate New York..Speaking of which..has anyone seen/heard from IC2 today??I only just got on here,havent looked yet..
i am worried about ic2 also. hopefully it is just a power outage keeping him from signing in.
Yup..could be..Dont know exactly where he lives..
Its matt167,who lives in Prattsville..Hope his feet are above the waterline..Didnt like what I saw on tv this morning..
was just looking at photos coming out of the north east. horrible.
Good to hear that most of the folks in your area, including you, survived with minimal damage, Barb.
Really good to hear from you Barb.Yeah I was concerned.Seem VT got hammered with floods.
thanks ntf and gary. it has been a wild week around here.
Power is finally back on at about 6:30PM (went out on Sunday about 10:00AM) the sun was out all day which gave me a chance to start cleaning my yard - you can only guess what 60-70 mph winds will pull off 20 or so 100+ foot oaks along with 5-6 inches of rain. Two trees, maples, I believe, from the woods did come down and are partially draped in the yard - the Stihl Farm Boss chain saw will make quick work of them in the morning.
It looks like the eye of that storm passed overhead. There was about an hour on Sunday afternoon when it stopped raining, the sky got bright and the wind stopped - then it began again.
There is a lot of flood damage, with a low lying area of town being evacuated according to the town supervisor(mayor) A bunch of non local electric company crews with still over 100,000 still out of power are working locally. Thankfully we weren't hit as bad as downstate or Vermont - and they are in real trouble. Makes me wonder what would happen if it had been a Cat 3 storm as predicted instead of a low level 1 or tropical storm, whatever it ended up being. I still don't know the full extent.
Sure am glad for my new generator - didn't lose a thing in the refrigerator, but couldn't get on the net or even TV
dave i am so glad to hear from you. sounds like you got the kind of damage we did. thank goodness that you guys are okay.
Good to see you back on Dave!!! Been worried and wondering how things were... Saw some footage of the damage, going to be a mess for quite awhile, but thank God the storm didn't intensify before it hit you!!!!! Glad you're back with us and safe!
Glad all of you guys and gals are safe. Hope for a speedy recovery to you all. Barb I know just what you mean about the cops spoiling your fun! :)
Thanks for the good words. We seem to be almost back to normal, but there are still some problems. There is a big dam on the Mohawk River (Erie Canal) which runs through our town and has some potential structural failure. It isn't really high, ~30-40 feet but about a mile wide. Then some really nasty flooding between that dam and 25 miles upstream.
Now, we do have to worry and wonder about Matt in Prattsville. He hasn't been on here as often as the past, but I'll check on him at Hotrodders.com. I know others are in that path, hopefully are fine and that they check in soon
Out shortly to finish my yard clean uphttp://planetsmilies.net/not-tagged-smiley-10031.gif
A video to watch - http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...153510538.html
Glad to hear everyone is safe buildings can be put back up trees will grow again If friends are gone thats forever.
Glad you guys are checkin' in and don't have too bad a story to tell.
Saw Ol' Joe Bastardi on the tube last night. He's a wizard at prediction, uses historical models moreso than the computer models (imagine that), says this looks a lot like 1954. He sees another hurricane potential forming with possibility of hitting the east coast again in a week to 10 days. Watch out for trees......
tracking that one too bob. i am afraid that irene was just a really bad warning and the worse is yet to come.
Tropical Storm Katia :CRY: :CRY:
Tropical Storm KATIA
At least I have my generator and 3 full cans of gas.
My wife said that for another one like Irene, we'll latch the trailer up to the truck, put the pup and a few changes of clothes a supply of adult beverages (coffee, tea, etc.....)in it and go West and only stop when we reach bright sunshine and whispering zephyrs.:D
Just saw on Fox News that the village of Prattsville, for all practical purposes, no longer exists. Sure hope that Matt is safe.
thanks for the update on prattsville. sure wish that matt would sign in soon.
From the video that was showing on Fox it sure didn't look good, trees being uprooted, major flooding ,and most everything in a mess.
can not get regular news as my flat scrren got zapped during the storm. cost more to fix it then replace it. so now i am saving my pennies to buy another one in a week or so. with my insurance deductable not even worth claiming it.
Here's some of our local coverage of Prattsville. The town is in tough shape but it appears no fatalities been reported:
Town tackles flooding - YNN, Your News Now
Also, there is a Mohawk River - Schoharie Creek video. The Mohawk is about a 200-300 yards wide where the normally 50 yard wide Schoharie joins it. That creek is notorious after it collapsed a bridge on I-90 in the late '80s which killed a bunch of folks that couldn't stop in time.
Man, that is some video, Dave!!! The aerial video really gives an idea of just how extensive the damage really is----The bridge with no approach on either end really looks strange! Going to be a lot of work and a lot of $$$$$ to get the area back to anything near normal.
I spoke well too soon saying the news was making more about this then what it is.Watching the news about N.J. and VT,my heart and prays goes out to them.
45 confirmed dead.
I'm here. I had limated battery power/ time on the internet per charge on my laptop, but I got a lead cord to run into the room where the mobile broadband works.. Prattsville was hit very hard and 85% of the town is no longer inhabitable. to my knowladge, everyone in the town is safe, and I am because my house is way up in the hills.. I was down today helping the hardest hit buisnuess which is the hardware/ feed store.. the gas station washed away, and the bridge is twisted and buckled. 1 way out of town now, as they have reopened the road
some pics I took today
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I am so relieved to hear from you. all of us were very worried. sorry about your towns losses but at least it was not loss of life. everything else can be rebuilt.
Good to see you are safe matt..It isnt nice to see water go through a town like that..and wonder if everyone can get out before it hits..Good to hear you live on a hill.Its the first thing I look for in a property...elevation..
Makes me think about what kind of claim those people have to turn in.Flood or hurricane??. I would think most people don't have a floor rider on there home owners.The news said FEMA doesn't have enough money to cover the damages.
Yeah-I pray for those poor souls that lost it all.
Depending on the area you live in decides weather you can buy flood insurance or not.
I know this because I asked my insurance man
i can not get flood insurance but a house 2 blocks down can. we are not on a federal flood plain. so if we flood we are screwed.
yep thats what they told me... And I live 500' from a river
some parts of this town flood ins is available. but not all
Good to hear you came through it ok Matt, was wondering how things were.....
Good to hear your well. Ditto also to what others have said. Wishing you well