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nienna_helyanwe

My Irene aftermath

Sep 02, 2011 12:25

Honestly we were lucky. Yeah we lost power the second day of Irene, when the rains had stopped and the winds started, but we were prepared with a generator from an electrition friend of ours. That and we only had to wait another day for our power to come back as one of the guys from the power company lived up the street and he didnt have power ( Read more... )

hurricane irene

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shanachie_quill September 3 2011, 11:15:14 UTC

Wow, yeah. That is pretty lucky.

I think we were too. I mean one of the trees at my parents' fell onto the roof, but it just grazed it and knocked a couple shingles off. And my gramma's house is fine. (Where I am). The funny part? The town I live in floods--well the town my gramma lives in-except for like a two block area. Which is where we are. But we still get the evac call. We can decide to leave or not because we aren't in the actual flood plain. The shelter? IS in the flood plain. We laughed so hard over that!

I've got more pictures--of the neighborhood and stuff...just been too lazy to put them up. And of my neighbor's son's truck. He came down from a town like 30 minutes away to stay with his mom during the storm--her one tree uprooted and totaled his truck!

nienna_helyanwe September 7 2011, 00:10:49 UTC

that is lucky. to live in the only few blocks that dont flood. i hope the shelter itself doesnt flood, or that really would be stupid....it is kinda funny though. if the area is already flooded...how do you get people inside?

shanachie_quill September 7 2011, 04:08:56 UTC

It really is! And weird as hell when the whole town is flooded and you aren't.

Well the shelter is the high school/middle school (its a really small town. And it's a three story building...so i'm assuming they put people on the second and third floors (or at least I hope so). Generally speaking the water doesn't get too deep there. But it is really funny. And we have a lot of like SUVs and stuff. And I suppose they could use cherry pickers and all.

nienna_helyanwe September 14 2011, 05:34:15 UTC

lol! sorry. you said cherry pickers and for some reason i just cracked up. its not that uncommon actually, i lived in buffalo ny for a long time, and i went to a school that was pre-k through 8th....in one three floor building. so that doesnt actually surprise me. and it was in the middle of the city, so it wasnt like out in the boonies.

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