-=> Quoting Mark Hofmann to All on 02 Nov 12  11:38:46 <=-

 MH> Hope everyone made it through the storm in good shape and safe.  It
 MH> has been a very crazy week for me, to say the least. 

We had nothing more than a fairly normal storm... rain and high winds,
but no major outages in the city area, just out in suburban areas.  We
actually had higher winds and more rain in earlier storms this year...

 MH> Concerning the storm, we did better than I expected.  My neighbor lost
 MH> two large trees and at least 2 more large trees went down in the woods
 MH> behind my house.   
 MH> I recorded the lowest barometer I have ever seen or recorded.  It was
 MH> 28.36 inches early Tuesday morning. 

You were obviously closer to the storm than we were...!

 MH> Our power went out Monday evening.  I was lucky in that I was able to
 MH> buy a generator this past Friday.  I walked into the Home Depot just
 MH> as they were unloading them.  They sold 19 of them in 10 minutes.   

Very good timing!

 MH> I was able to run the entire house on the generator, just had to keep
 MH> finding more gas for it which was the difficult part.  Our entire area
 MH> had no power for miles and all stations were dark.  I finally found
 MH> one with power about 15 miles away.   
 MH> I must say, it looked like armageddon when I was driving around in the
 MH> truck Monday night looking for gas.  Everything was dark - no red
 MH> lights anywhere, rain going sideways, things flying in the road. 
 MH> It was an experience, thats for sure.

Quite the experience, to be sure!

 MH> We got power and Internet restored 24 hours later, but there are still
 MH> many places that are dark. 

I know it's almost a week later... has full power been restored...?  And
did the new storm get you, or was MD spared most of that...?  We got
nothing at all of the nor'easter that dumped snow on NJ and all...  

ttyl          neb

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