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To: metmom
How’d you make out in the storm?

Well, in general the whole thing didn't live up to its public reputation, given 48-hour (at least) coverage on ALL the TV media round-the-clock, local or national. As if nothing else of importance was going on in the world.

Meanwhile, I'm avid for news out of, say, Syria....

Be that as it may: It's been really soggy here, in Boston's Metrowest. My town is approximately halfway between Boston and Worcester, and the stormtrack passed to the West of us. Meaning: My town was on the NE "nasty" side of a hurricane — which had already been downgraded to a tropical storm before it actually got here. So we got maybe 8" of rain here — the rain started yesterday about 2 p.m., and has been continuous ever since, with heavy intermittent downpours.

We live on a hill. So I wasn't worried about flooding problems; I was worried about wind problems. I was worried that one of the mature oak trees in the front yard, or of one of the impressively tall white pines in the backyard, would fall on the house. Fortunately, the wind speeds were evidently insufficient to cause this result.

We are still standing! Both rain and wind are gone where I live, as of now.

I hope your tree — the one you referred to in a recent post — survived. Or at least didn't become a destructive missile....

451 posted on 08/28/2011 3:57:27 PM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through, the eye. — William Blake)
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To: betty boop

We hardly got ANY wind at all.

A real let down for a meteorologist. :)

But good news for this homeowner.


452 posted on 08/28/2011 4:26:17 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: betty boop

I’m in Gettysburg (for now) they lost some trees are here.

Just came back from Hershey, where they, too, lost some trees.

Everything else is fine: power stayed on during the rain and wind.


467 posted on 08/29/2011 4:14:10 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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