Lots o' wind, flooding in the low lying areas and basements. Many big, old trees down. Some unfortunate neighbor of mine had a large tree smash her house and pin her in bed under the debris. Luckily her husband was able to call 911, and they brought in a crane to remove the tree and extract her. Apparently she is okay. However, the same cannot be said about her house, probably a total loss.
We lost power Thursday night and ended up draining the sump in the basement using a hand-powered bilge pump through out Thursday night to Friday morning. Power didn't come back on until Saturday night, so we just cooked on the gas grill and occupied ourselves with cleaning up and restoring the house to its pre-storm condition. Mrs. Ranxerox thought I was nuts to board up some of the 100-year-old windows in the house, but after a couple of 80 mph gusts at 2:00 a.m., she decided it wasn't such a bad idea after all, regardless of the snickering neighbors.