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aishabintjamilI'm happy to report that our power came back on this morning at about 5:30 We lost it about 11:00 pm on Thurs. night when the storm that's been making the news all over the east coast passed through our area. We're feeling very fortunate right now, since according the PSNH website, there are still more than 200,000 people in the state without power. I think that's about 20% of their customer base.
Thankfully the weather has been relatively warm, so we didn't fare too badly while waiting for our power to come back on. My employer had power, so we I went to work Friday, and visited Barbara's brother Chris in Derry Friday evening, just coming how to sleep. We had a very high cat-to-human ratio on the bed, and aside from it being difficult to move, were pretty comfortable once we were under the covers. As a side note, two cats snuggled up to your head on the pillow function very much like a hat for conserving body heat. :-)
Thursday night was a very unnerving experience. Our bedroom is on the side of the house which took the brunt of the high winds, and on some of the stronger gusts the house shook. I could hear things rattling against each other on my bureau, and once or twice the bed shook. We lay there and listened to thing banging outside, wondering if the windows were going to hold up, or if we should consider relocating downstairs. The cats, interestingly, all stayed downstairs Thurs. night, even though normally three or four of them join us in bed on most nights.
Thankfully when I went out to inspect on Friday morning, the only damage I found was minor. A couple of pieces of flashing had come off the house. There were a number of shingles in the yard, but I think they were all from our next door neighbor's house. A large section of one of the neighbor's trees (which has been dead for several years now) came down in the back yard, but didn't hit anything. I'm truly amazed by the fact that at least half the tree is still standing. The national weather service recorded gusts in Manchester of nearly 60 MPH. I also had to retrieve our rubbish barrels from a variety of places around the neighborhood. We ended up with an extra barrel, and someone's recycling bin, which are sitting our front now in case someone is looking for them. If no one grabs them by the end of the weekend, we'll just adopt them. I think we had one more barrel than I found, so perhaps its a fair exchange.
The apartment building across the street had some sort of multi-hole bird house mounted on a pole. It was a good sized thing, probably about 3' tall by 2' in diameter. It's currently residing on the roof of their storage shed, pole and all. No large trees came down in our immediate area, but there were quite a number of them in other parts of town.
One of my co-workers described a near miss in front of her house on Thurs. night. She was just stepping outside to retrieve her escaping rubbish barrels when she heard a snap, and saw sparks a little ways down the street. She looked that way just in time to see what she described as a nearly 2' diameter tree snap off in the middle and come down in the road, just missing a car that as passing. The tree took off their front bumper. Being a decent person, she immediately went over to see if the occupants were injured. They turned out to be three teenagers on their way home from something, and pretty badly shaken up. (Not unreasonably - a couple of seconds later and the tree would have hit the front seat, and probably killed all of them.) She brought them inside, fed them coffee, and let them make phone calls and wait for someone to come pick them up.
Thankfully the weather has been relatively warm, so we didn't fare too badly while waiting for our power to come back on. My employer had power, so we I went to work Friday, and visited Barbara's brother Chris in Derry Friday evening, just coming how to sleep. We had a very high cat-to-human ratio on the bed, and aside from it being difficult to move, were pretty comfortable once we were under the covers. As a side note, two cats snuggled up to your head on the pillow function very much like a hat for conserving body heat. :-)
Thursday night was a very unnerving experience. Our bedroom is on the side of the house which took the brunt of the high winds, and on some of the stronger gusts the house shook. I could hear things rattling against each other on my bureau, and once or twice the bed shook. We lay there and listened to thing banging outside, wondering if the windows were going to hold up, or if we should consider relocating downstairs. The cats, interestingly, all stayed downstairs Thurs. night, even though normally three or four of them join us in bed on most nights.
Thankfully when I went out to inspect on Friday morning, the only damage I found was minor. A couple of pieces of flashing had come off the house. There were a number of shingles in the yard, but I think they were all from our next door neighbor's house. A large section of one of the neighbor's trees (which has been dead for several years now) came down in the back yard, but didn't hit anything. I'm truly amazed by the fact that at least half the tree is still standing. The national weather service recorded gusts in Manchester of nearly 60 MPH. I also had to retrieve our rubbish barrels from a variety of places around the neighborhood. We ended up with an extra barrel, and someone's recycling bin, which are sitting our front now in case someone is looking for them. If no one grabs them by the end of the weekend, we'll just adopt them. I think we had one more barrel than I found, so perhaps its a fair exchange.
The apartment building across the street had some sort of multi-hole bird house mounted on a pole. It was a good sized thing, probably about 3' tall by 2' in diameter. It's currently residing on the roof of their storage shed, pole and all. No large trees came down in our immediate area, but there were quite a number of them in other parts of town.
One of my co-workers described a near miss in front of her house on Thurs. night. She was just stepping outside to retrieve her escaping rubbish barrels when she heard a snap, and saw sparks a little ways down the street. She looked that way just in time to see what she described as a nearly 2' diameter tree snap off in the middle and come down in the road, just missing a car that as passing. The tree took off their front bumper. Being a decent person, she immediately went over to see if the occupants were injured. They turned out to be three teenagers on their way home from something, and pretty badly shaken up. (Not unreasonably - a couple of seconds later and the tree would have hit the front seat, and probably killed all of them.) She brought them inside, fed them coffee, and let them make phone calls and wait for someone to come pick them up.
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