We have a bit of damage that needs to be evaluated in our home. Hopefully there's nothing too serious. There are a bunch of cracks in the walls, but it could just be paint and dry wall damage. Fingers crossed.
Hurricane Irene interfered somewhat with our drive home from Lake Placid. We came down I-87 initially, but ending up driving west to Harrisburg, PA to avoid the storm for as long as possible. That's quite a bit out of the way, considering that the initial plan had been to come down the Jersey Turnpike. Oh well, we did make it home.
We actually didn't encounter the storm until the very last hour of our drive across Maryland. It never got worse than a heavy rainstorm (we live pretty far inland). The Safeway told a different story, though. I went to pick up some food, since we'd been out of town for a week. Despite the fact that it wasn't supposed to really get that bad where we lived (heavy rain over night and early Sunday morning) you'd have thought the world was ending. There was no water in the store. I got the last carton of eggs and the last loaf of bread. The only milk left was whole milk.
As predicted the storm wasn't that bad. We briefly lost power overnight, but wouldn't have known if we hadn't needed to reset the clocks. By the time I woke up and looked outside on Sunday the sun was shining.
Frankly, I'm disappointed. I'm a little sad I missed the earthquake, especially since I lived in LA for four years and never felt one there either. I definitely would have felt this one. Though I am glad I didn't have to deal with the awful commute that followed the earthquake. Instead I was
I know other areas were hit harder. And we still need to assess the earthquake damage, which could very well be extensive and costly. But I expected more from the end-of-the-world predictions I was hearing.
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