Just responding to your post because almost the exact same situation as mine. Man I wish I had bought another sleeve of D batteries when I had the chance.
The freak October 30th 2011 storm left me with many fewer standing trees and lots of firewood, worked out well as I’m burning off last years treefalls as I cut down this year’s.
I saw some sad things in North NJ, people were using bucket brigades to draw water from the Ramapo River at the Mahwah/Suffern interchange, I know for a certain that the Ramapo Sewer Plant was sending untreated sewage down that river at the time. People were brawling at a gas station on Wednesday night.
Life is getting back to normal quicker than expected though, a lot of that has to go to the petro companies who moved alot of gas barges into Newburgh NY starting last night.
Next time going to get ton of Ds. There is a battery store on Route 10 in Roxbury. I bought a ton. The Walmart by me just opened and a frenzy broke out when the pallet of 5 lb gas containers came out. Really hoping for Obama defeat, weak Nor’Easter, and that the riots won’t be too bad.