Checking in from Long Island. I still have no power (I’m writing this from my father’s kitchen table). Thankfully, we have a fireplace and have been able to cook and keep warm because of it.
I’ve seen no looting here, but a lady from my church showed up at Mass today shaking, crying and very, very frightened. She’d been on a line at the gas station for three hours when an irate man rammed her car, got out and threatened to kill her and burn down her house if she didn’t let him cut in front of her — and this is in my own very quiet neighborhood!
Meanwhile, my cousin in Staten Island is now sleeping on his couch with a shotgun in his lap because of the lawlessness he’s seen there. (Our own shotgun is also ready to go, BTW.)
Thankfully, no one I know has been hurt, but many of my friends have severely damaged homes. Most of those were from falling trees, but one had the ocean march across more than two miles of (flat) land to flood her entire first floor.
EVERY block I’ve seen has at least one large tree down, and wires are hanging everywhere. It looks like a war zone around here.
Regards,
A bump and my best to you.
You may have already found it, but BuckeyeTexan set up a 'check in' thread for our fellow FReepers like yourself who were knocked incommunicado by this.
Northeast FReepers Please Check In
Might help dull a bit of the sense of isolation that's likely hovering about.
Take good care and be well . . .
Have a sister and brother a half mile apart in Shirley, Suffolk County, L.I. This county is the one about half way out on Long Island.
They were spared.
Sister-in-law in East meadow, Nassau County, still has no power, or did not as of Sat. 11-3.
But they’re able to eat at a diner, and spend some hours with a daughter 10 miles away.
Tak care of yourselves,,,
From Alabama.