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edenfallingSandy continued to be a complete non-event in Ithaca today -- only drizzle or light rain without even any wind worth speaking of. The creeks were running maybe a foot or so higher than normal, but that's nothing. I've seen them run at least three feet over normal, just a roaring, churning, avalanche of gray-brown anger and foam, after other storms. (And even that doesn't come close to the tops of the concrete channels that hold them. Whoever did water control in central Ithaca planned for the 500-year flood, for which I am thankful.)
I haven't heard from Vicky down in DC -- she's been having phone issues unrelated to the storm and also cell service is spotty over the east coast -- but she did manage to get in touch with my parents today so she's alive and well. I am unsure if she has power. Hopefully she will be able to text or email me tomorrow.
My parents have no power at all; they lost it around midnight last night. In fact, not a single building in all of Madison has power unless supplied by a backup generator. Both lines that bring electricity into town are down. Even once those are repaired, the mayor thinks only about 50% of building will get power back immediately. The rest will be dark for perhaps as long as a week, as crews repair the various local issues one by one. ...Some of which are apparently nightmarish jigsaw puzzles of multiple downed trees interlaced both with each other and with tangles of live wires and telephone poles. There is one such jigsaw on the street behind my parents' house -- three of the row of hemlocks on the back of their property went down like dominoes -- and another one street over that involves five trees and contains a relatively intact car in the center as if clutched in a giant plant-dragon's claws.
Madison is roughly twenty-five miles west of central Manhattan and lies in the Watchung Mountains, so the wind was pretty fierce. :-/
I haven't heard from Vicky down in DC -- she's been having phone issues unrelated to the storm and also cell service is spotty over the east coast -- but she did manage to get in touch with my parents today so she's alive and well. I am unsure if she has power. Hopefully she will be able to text or email me tomorrow.
My parents have no power at all; they lost it around midnight last night. In fact, not a single building in all of Madison has power unless supplied by a backup generator. Both lines that bring electricity into town are down. Even once those are repaired, the mayor thinks only about 50% of building will get power back immediately. The rest will be dark for perhaps as long as a week, as crews repair the various local issues one by one. ...Some of which are apparently nightmarish jigsaw puzzles of multiple downed trees interlaced both with each other and with tangles of live wires and telephone poles. There is one such jigsaw on the street behind my parents' house -- three of the row of hemlocks on the back of their property went down like dominoes -- and another one street over that involves five trees and contains a relatively intact car in the center as if clutched in a giant plant-dragon's claws.
Madison is roughly twenty-five miles west of central Manhattan and lies in the Watchung Mountains, so the wind was pretty fierce. :-/
