Superstorm Sandy

[tompm]

We made it through. Power stayed on which is amazing considering we lose at the drop of a leaf. We had one trunk of the tree in our front yard come down. After we started cutting it up we found that it did hit the house. Visible damage is a crushed downspout, bent gutter, paint scraped off molding and scratch marks on the stones. There may also be some mortar knocked loose. I still need to have the wall checked out behind the downspout and the roof.

When the tree came down we went out to make sure there was no major damage to the house. While standing out there the neighborhood was lit up with blue flashes. There was one very large and bright flash two blocks to the south. There were flashes to the north and to the west. Fire trucks were racing through the neighborhood. The smell of burning wood was everywhere. It was surreal like we were in the War of Worlds.