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[Don McCombs]

Yep. You made the right choice, Val. Property can be replaced, however inconvenient, but lives cannot be. Good luck when you get home.

[Dale Finch]

My 3 cousins plus my 94 year old aunt live in New Orleans. If they can't get my aunt relocated tomorrow to another Assisted Care facility, they are planning to head up here to North Carolina until things are back to some semblance of normal. Fortunately, it seems all 4 residences are intact. Good luck all you Cajuns!

[Don McCombs]

Any more news from/about our LA and MS friends?

[Dale Finch]

Let us also hear from all you guys up in the flooded NE! Hoping everyone faired well.

[Peter Person]

Let us also hear from all you guys up in the flooded NE! Hoping everyone faired well.

Dale,
Anywhere from 6-10" in our tiny state. SW CT got the most rain and wind, nothing like NJ though where a tornado ripped through.
Lost power from midnight to 5:00am, but we were sleeping.
Ponds, Lakes, Streams, and Rivers have been full all summer. +/-25 inches of rain in July alone.

Peter

[ScottyD'sdad]

Ida gave us an additional 4 1/2 inches. The advantage for me is, garden is pretty much gone, so I get time to work on cubs!

Ed

[Don McCombs]

We got about 6-7 inches here, but no flooding issues like elsewhere. All our excess rain goes into the Potomac and then flows down to The Swamp.

[Rick Spivey]

I heard from Jim Foose, they are fine, but running on generators for now. Minimal damage to the house, said the neighbors got it worse than he did.

[coppersmythe]

Hello all from the deep south . we came out not too bad , fairly minor damage . power out for 5 days (not bad for a cat 4 ) . i went to my daughters house in St. Rose ( south west of New Orleans ) , BAD . no water , no power , LIVE OAKS KNOCKED DOWN !!! power poles hanging over the road , wish i could photo , railroad barricades down , have to drive around , And south of them , IS WORSE !! Imagine, NO FOOD , NO WATER , NO ELECTRICITY , NO GASOLINE , FOR A WEEK + ...........................................................

[brichter]

Val , I can sympathize with you. After Michael, some of us were out of power for weeks, some as high as 2 months. These were isolated cases of course but the average around here was between 1-3 weeks. I think what got us the worst though was the inattention we got. It was months before FEMA did anything for us. The national media ignored us and I guess it was because we were a rural area it hit. We had a complete town washed away and nothing left but concrete slabs. Usually when a storm come in on our part of the coast by the time it gets to my place it's down to 50-60 mph but Michael was still hitting 140 when it came over us. Scientists say global warming is causing stronger storms but if they get worse than Michael, I'm moving to Canada. God bless all of you and I am so thankful all of our cub buddies came through so good,

[Super A]

Val , I can sympathize with you. After Michael, some of us were out of power for weeks, some as high as 2 months. These were isolated cases of course but the average around here was between 1-3 weeks. I think what got us the worst though was the inattention we got. It was months before FEMA did anything for us. The national media ignored us and I guess it was because we were a rural area it hit. We had a complete town washed away and nothing left but concrete slabs. Usually when a storm come in on our part of the coast by the time it gets to my place it's down to 50-60 mph but Michael was still hitting 140 when it came over us. Scientists say global warming is causing stronger storms but if they get worse than Michael, I'm moving to Canada. God bless all of you and I am so thankful all of our cub buddies came through so good,

Sounds like fran, floyd, michael, florence, etc. here in eastern NC. When sandy hit the NE several years ago there were telethons, benefit concerts, etc. etc. etc. but we were in large part on our own.

Prayers and best wishes to everyone during your recovery. Been there, probably will be again before it's all said and done.

This is home but a week or so without electricity will make me thing about moving as far away from the coast as possible, every time.

Al