HOWDEE!!! What a great welcome, Everyone asking about me THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart!!! We're Alrite!
Yeah Floyd was bad but could have been much worse - the Center of it passed right over here. A major phone station was flooded so we couldn't make any calls out of town til yesterday evening and internet was down til even later. Then when online was active late last night I let my daughter get on it first she's been so brave & good about helping with grubwork and fell asleep waiting for her to get off. Read all the Techride posts first, what great stock picks scribbled 'em all down and will LOOKY at those and the links. Don't know if cable internet access went down along with the phones; I do know that NEXTEL was the only wireless that folks said never went down because of the storm, from what I heard. I heard the Jersey Shore got hit pretty bad; we're north on higher ground but got many rivers brooks ponds & underground springs here so its wet.
We had some water in the basement but nothing needing a pump just a mop and newspapers didn't take long to dry it.
So our work with the bucket paid off later. No leaks, the roof is fine. No downed trees on this street but just a block away a giant oak came down, there were some whirlwinds. This house is set on a comparative rise, but
just a mile from here around the compass there were cars submerged, a gasoline fire on top of water on a highway from a broken fuel line of a car sparking while going into a sudden flood on the road, waterborne rescues from flooded houses, and ruined living room furniture & carpets along with basement junk piled up at curbs for trash just a few blocks from here. Creeks that were dry overflowed their banks; some of those big artificial-lake swimming pools emptied after labor day caught water overflow saved whole neighborhoods from disaster. Many factors combined to make this better than it might have been and it's still bad; the worst places are still in water but thats farther away. Yeah its bad, I heard a sad story from a neighbor of an old man in the next town drowned because he refused to evacuate his flooding home but don't know if its true. If Floyd hadn't been downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it got here, and/or if we hadn't been in drought this summer with recent rain to soften up the hard-packed ground, we would have been stowing our sleeping bags on the kayak B4 paddling it to the emergency shelter from this neighborhood too. Emergency measures have been in place with guards and blocked access to or through flooded neighborhoods. There was a massive traffic jam through this town to detour floods on nearby highways til Saturday. The tap water isn't safe to drink. Many NY and PA license plates on cars in town, diners and motels are packed, could be folks fleeing unlivable homes and/or coming to help their family with theirs. There were BBQs in town Sat. nite and another one in a park yesterday. No credit cards could be used because of the phone problem, and the same thing shut down bankcard cash machines. So that means checks were no good either unless the merchant knows you; cash and travellers checks were all. Guessing banks & cards will be fine today probably be long lines but things are getting back to normal as far as basics go about now.
Hope we don't get another of these storms for a long time, especially on top of all this water.
Came to Techride before I looked at my Portfolio, as Puna sez looks like some of the shares might have moved 50 cents since last looky. It was the phones out kept me offline. Got to look closely into what worked, if anything - only know NEXTEL worked the whole time.
Internet is so inter-dependent on access the ISP's aren't the real access providers either The Lines & Satellites Are Calling The Shots.
Internet access #s are different from regular #s and they were put back in operation slower in this emergency. All the ISP's/Portals
can do to grab grubs on eyeballs for advertisements is slow down the high-speed by increasing the link looky clicks if they want. But if they do that too much the customers will be flocking elsewhere.
Great 2CU Pals, Thanks for askin' about me it means alot.
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