njbchbum
11-02-2012, 03:36 PM
this is truly my worst storm experience in all of my almost 65 years since birth! i have NEVER seen the devastation and loss of property in all of my born days! it must rank up with what people survived after katrina and in the hurricane that hit homestead fla!
since monday when sandy hit us there has been no electric, therefore, no heat. the good news is that we cook with gas and we had c and d cell batteries and candles on hand...and the local oem has been distributing ice and water [today's giveaways included meals ready to eat compliments of fema, too!]. we are warming the house with pots of simmering water on all 4 stove burners...so we have been somewhat warm and well fed! ;) we can only thank god that we have a house in which to be so...so many others don't! the worst damage to our house is the loss of one window on the northeast side of our second story and some fence that blew down and now can be used for firewood!
the house is lighted at night with candles three camping lanterns and our solar path lights. i must say that the battery operated candles in the bathrooms do cast a lovely glow! what is the worst condition we face in our quest for survival...the cold toilet seat!!! :) and after 5 days of this survival the local shelter is beginning to look like a good place for a respite experience! ;)
local power company cannot say where we fall on the priority list for service restoration, but the main arteries of state roads are mostly up and running and local towns that draw from those roadways are now quickly being restored. good for them - but i live near the beach and not a state or county roadway, oh well! we also did not have cell service until today because 25% of the cell towers had been knocked out by the storm as it swept thru the northeast...and because we subscribe to att and t-mobile instead of verizon! guess who is gonna switch providers!!! :)
hub's firehouse got power back today so maybe we will go and picnic there on sunday so that we can watch the giants beat the steelers - they're gonna do it for jersey, of course! ;)
so that's the short of how we are surviving on the not so bad central jersey shore. i did get a report from the really devastated part of the shore that the oceanfront house that my mother sold a couple of years ago was relocated some feet west of where it had sat since the storm of 1962 - BUT -the front of the house was no longer in the area and the deck that had been in front was sitting in what had been the living room. i hope the new owners had flood insurance!
well, gotta go for now. need to check in with the outside world since we just got our generator up and running and this is the first opportunity i have had to do so! ciao for now!
since monday when sandy hit us there has been no electric, therefore, no heat. the good news is that we cook with gas and we had c and d cell batteries and candles on hand...and the local oem has been distributing ice and water [today's giveaways included meals ready to eat compliments of fema, too!]. we are warming the house with pots of simmering water on all 4 stove burners...so we have been somewhat warm and well fed! ;) we can only thank god that we have a house in which to be so...so many others don't! the worst damage to our house is the loss of one window on the northeast side of our second story and some fence that blew down and now can be used for firewood!
the house is lighted at night with candles three camping lanterns and our solar path lights. i must say that the battery operated candles in the bathrooms do cast a lovely glow! what is the worst condition we face in our quest for survival...the cold toilet seat!!! :) and after 5 days of this survival the local shelter is beginning to look like a good place for a respite experience! ;)
local power company cannot say where we fall on the priority list for service restoration, but the main arteries of state roads are mostly up and running and local towns that draw from those roadways are now quickly being restored. good for them - but i live near the beach and not a state or county roadway, oh well! we also did not have cell service until today because 25% of the cell towers had been knocked out by the storm as it swept thru the northeast...and because we subscribe to att and t-mobile instead of verizon! guess who is gonna switch providers!!! :)
hub's firehouse got power back today so maybe we will go and picnic there on sunday so that we can watch the giants beat the steelers - they're gonna do it for jersey, of course! ;)
so that's the short of how we are surviving on the not so bad central jersey shore. i did get a report from the really devastated part of the shore that the oceanfront house that my mother sold a couple of years ago was relocated some feet west of where it had sat since the storm of 1962 - BUT -the front of the house was no longer in the area and the deck that had been in front was sitting in what had been the living room. i hope the new owners had flood insurance!
well, gotta go for now. need to check in with the outside world since we just got our generator up and running and this is the first opportunity i have had to do so! ciao for now!