Originally Posted by May in Jersey
On Saturday night weather reports were that when Irene hit our area the winds would be between 50-65 so I knew we would be OK as we've weathered many storms like that. Rain did come down heavy in sheets and the winds were blowing but mostly it was just a heavy rain storm for us.
Township had residents in a low lying area evacuate and suggested that anyone who has had flooding in the past to evacuate also. We did lose power on and off around midnight on Sat. but Irene just left some small branches and lots of leaves on the ground in our area. We lost our cable TV, internet and phone for all of Sunday until about 3 am Monday morning. Boy did I miss my contact with the outside world. Just hope everyone else had as few problems as we did. May in Jersey
I'm with you. I am 60 miles South of Richmond VA and we got the outer bands of rain from the storm (the Coast got it bad) and a little wind. Isabelle was worse for my area. Lost power for about six hours. Glad it is over with for this small area. There are a lot of people, businesses and schools without power yet in the Richmond, and Coastal areas. Will take some time for the power companies to find the problems and remove all the trees and debre. We are very lucky. Vermont is a very sad area with all the flooding according to the news. Glad you are safe and just keep on quilting...hehe, Mary