HHURRICANE IRENE

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   Hi all,
   
   
   First and foremost we are fine.  I think all your best of thoughts and crossed fingers kept us out of harm’s way.
   This is my second attempt at getting this safe and sound message out to all of you, as the first one written directly on E-Mail was lost in an Internet loss of connection.  Sooooooooooooo frustrating!  Especially when I am forced to use only one hand to type.  The left hand is inside a brand new long white crew sock that goes up above my elbow.  I somehow got into poison ivy once again while weeding and picking up branches in the yard.  I get poison ivy very, very badly when I get it and my whole hand is now swollen up like a blown up latex glove and is covered with huge blisters.  I originally had it over one side of my face, neck, and lips but that area has calmed down.  I have Rx’s to help but the dosages are too low.  So that is that!
   
   
   Back to Irene.  Sheffield had, here and there, scattered haphazardly fallen trees, limbs, and flooding  issues.  It was definitely not the disaster that Amsterdam, and Wyndam, NY and  Vermont got caught dealing with.  The storm was here and definitely left its mark with scattered big issues. We have heard chain saws going all day til dusk.  We haven’t left our yard, as Davey doesn’t want me driving our car with my hands so compromised.  I guess wise!! Our yard has little branches down which right now Davey won’t let me pick up until my hands get under poison ivy control.
   
   
   
   Lucky for us a planned take out of one of our cellar windows just got done last week.  The grading in the back yard was too high and we took on water through this cellar window.  We had a local handyman take it out, brick it up and then cover bricking with cement to match the existing foundation.  We still need him to come back and dig a trench, then put in drainage pipes, and gravel to move the water away from that back corner.  Nevertheless our basement held.  WHEW!!!  You have no idea how much rain came down – torrents of it!!!
   The RV was great although we moved back in when we thought the issues had calmed down and then the winds on the backside of the storm picked up and we rode those huge wind gusts through in the RV – kinda scary!   Nan Heintzelman Wells
   
   
   

   Comment by nan1940 — September 1, 2011 @ 9:24 AM

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   Hi, ALL,
    
   Glad to know the storm did not ravage your area – or you. The poison ivy must be painful.
    
   Our house is fine (aside from 36 hours without electricity and landline phone; 72 without cable TV), but large parts of NJ are devastated, among them the town of Denville, which was shut down with 3-4 ft. of water from the Rockaway River, Sunday through Tuesday. The business district was submerged, no entrance to the town was open, and the National Guard was driving through the water with workers to the "island" of St. Clare's Hospital.
    
   On Sunday night, a soil section under the shoulder and a portion of the slow lane of Route 287 N, before the first Boonton exit, collapsed, leaving a section of the guardrail blowing in the brisk breeze over the Rockaway River. Now road crews are doing emergency repairs and three lanes of mostly truck traffic headed toward upstate NY is being funneled into the one, far left lane,,with resulting 20-30 minute delays.
    
   Meanwhile, Chuck and Minerva and 2-month-old twins,were without electricity Sun & Mon. Tues., they picked up the formula, bottles, bouncey chair, boppi, bassinet and diapers and moved to Minerva's brother's house in N. Brunswick (they are lin FL until Fri). Milltown has their own city run electric company; power is to be restored today.
    
   I must run off to Chorale practice. Talk to you soon.
    
   Love,
   Kathy

   Comment by Kathy Bryson Pizar — September 1, 2011 @ 5:40 PM

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   We here  in Kansas - safe, hot and very dry as you were so wet - are very happy you are OK!!

   Comment by Janet (Krider) Duncan — September 10, 2011 @ 12:04 PM

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