[netmilsmom]

Are you ok?

[manna]

Prayer sent ...

[Faith65]

Great idea.
Prayers.

[Russell Scott]

I stuck my head under the faucet, and then turned up full the fan on in my house, before I watched Fox news coverage. I love being where the action is. Gives me the same kind of goose bumps I get when I think of having an action hero as my Governor. Go Tom go!

[netmilsmom]

Wow, I'm sorry everyone. Seems I can't spell. And make that Prayers FOR FReepers. Geez.

[Constitution Day]

BTTT

[shezza]

Northern Chesapeake banks, Maryland: Wind still whipping around...beautiful blue sky at 7:00 this morning. Downed power lines all over the place, flooding a few miles south in Edgewood and Perryman. I understand some rescues had to be made as the Bush River flooded. Storm surge is still headed up the Chesapeake and is expected to hit this area between noon and 2 ET.

Our power was off for about 3 hours yesterday afternoon, then back on for a few, then off for a bit, then on for the rest of the night. It was off again twice this morning. Clouds are beginning to blow back in.

Local news says over 600,000 are without power, and BG&E estimates several days of outages. Water pumping station at Perryman was damaged, so residents in the area are advised to not use water. (I'm on an army post where we have our own water facilities and power generators, so we're much more fortunate than the poor folks outside the fence.)

Thank heaven the storm blew further west of us. Praying for those in the path of Isabel...she's still wreaking havoc.

[TankerKC]

I was in Newport News (Fort Eustis) for some training that was supposed to last all week. After training on Tuesday, they gave us the order to go back home. I'm safely back in Alabama!

[Wright is right!]

You'll all be interested to learn that the rains, high winds, flooding, downed trees, power outages, etc., were all caused by "Hurricane Israel" - at least that's what Tom Brokaw called it TWICE on Thursday on the NBC Nightly News. No apologies, no acks that he made a mistake. Nope, no bias there.

Michael

[Major_Risktaker]

Greetings, I'm one mile southeast from Old Town Alexandria, VA. Over all the storm was lite . As of 1:00 am last night the winds and rain were still lite and we had power with a few very small tree branches down.

As of 2:00 am the power was out and I'm on battery backup now. I may ride my bike and see the normal flooding at Union & King Street in Old Town and check on some friends.

The power grid in our country is a failure and Pepco has asked the Canadians Power Company Teams to come down and help. I'm going to make my home kinda of "power grid free" somehow with more batteries, solar and a generator package.

Good luck to those who have been hit harder but over all the experience was like a typical summer storm.

[Delmarksman]

Checking in. We had a bit of wind and some rain here.

Nothing bad. For sure we've had worse Noreasters.

Some tents got blown over and some Campers left from Dover Downs, but the races should go ahead as scheduled.

[Gabz]

According to one of the guys on WFTD thread, xsmommy has been without power since yesterday and is de-camping to her brother or BIL's house. so they are fine.

[waspguy]

Checking in from Bethlehem PA - we had lots of trees down, and large parts of the region are without power.

According to the police - the Utility company isn't even answering its phone at the moment.

My place came through pretty well - since we had only about two inches of rain and relatively low wind gusts (>50 mph). I did have a big tree in the back shear off and almost hit the power lines coming into the house. Luckily it just missed (though it was leaning against this morning when I pushed it off), and I've been able to clean up the yard enough so that nothing else is going bring down wires. Glad nothing hit the main power lines.

Other than that it's been pretty uneventful up this way.

[nutmeg]

bump

[Movemout]

We just got our power back. Lots of downed tree; there will be a lot of cleaning up to do. Not many people killed. Mainly everything is just wet.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

Woohoo! I live in Chesterfield Co., VA, and I just got power back not 10 minutes ago! There are trees down everywhere. What a mess...

[Coastie]

All present and accounted for.
Just got electricity back, for how long....

[bd476]

Thank you netmilsmom for posting this. It's very touching to see the care and concern within our FR community and to hear from those affected by the storm. God Bless.

[bd476]

Please check in here and tell us you're okay.

[Think free or die]

We're OK here in the Philly suburbs. Our basement stayed dry and the creek stayed in its banks, both of which were unexpected. The wind howled, the rain pounded, but by morning it seemed that downed limbs were the worst of it for us. Power was restored around noon today after an 18 hour interruption. Cable and DSL line were faster.

Our only big problem was a partially uprooted tulip poplar which we discovered aimed at our house this morning. We were blessed with a tree service which arrived within 10 minutes of being called. They were able to stabilize and drop the tree and its neighbor without damaging the house. How we ever found a tree service for an urgent visit today I'll never know. We were plumb lucky. Expensive, but could have been far worse. Our generator earned its keep too!