I am the woman that had TWO houses to worry about, the one in Delaware where we now live and one in Pasadena, Merryland that is now for sale. The one in Merryland is on the water.
Here in Delaware we lost our cable which is now back on. No electricity loss at all. I walked the mutts this morning and everything looks fine down here.
My daughter lives in Baltimore and had no electricity last night up until an hour ago when I talked to her. She drove down to the waterfront property and had good news and bad news.
The house is fine with a little bit of water in the basement. The electricity, oddly, is still on in that now empty house. There are tree limbs all over the yard.
The river, my goodness, she told me the roof of my boat pavillion is the only thing showing. This boat pavillion is about 20 feet high!
I asked her if she was sure about this, trying to imagine such a thing. She said the river was into the back yard some twenty five closer to the house than it had ever been. She couldn't believe her eyes. This was her childhood home and we have seen the river rise pretty high. She said the boat house, a two story structure, is completed flooded on the first floor.
The company I consult for has a marina on Kent Island. The owner called me and told me his property is under four feet of water and he has boats on the parking lot!
Seems the Chesapeake Bay got quite a storm surge with Isabel. Fox news is showing pics of Baltimore and Annapolis. The inner harbor in Baltimore overflowed the banks and is causing quite some chaos. They have been periodically interviewing Ehrlich and O'Malley.
Here I live about 8 miles from the ocean in Delaware and I was nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs over this hurricane. In fact, husband and I talked about going back to Merryland to our empty waterfront home to be safer.
Heh. We were safer 8 miles from the ocean than we would have been there! Thankfully the house is high on the hill at the waterfront property and daughter reports it is fine. SHE still has no electicity while I am snug with all services eight miles down from the Atlantic Ocean.
Go figger.