Tropical Storm Isaias came roaring through here on August 4th. My neighborhood came out rather unscathed - tree branches down and the usual other debris - but we never lost power. So imagine my surprise to see everything else around me upended.
All around us, thousands were without power. Big beautiful trees were upturned. A mile down the road looked like this:
That road finally opened yesterday.
Oddly enough, we lost our power a few days later for about 24 hours. We still don't know why.
Storms are weird things. We got slammed in Hurricane Sandy and lost our power for almost two weeks. It was never officially confirmed that a tornado went up our street, but I can tell you that it most certainly did. Some areas were leveled, while some got minimal damage. I think it was all in how the storm swirled. Where we vacation at the Jersey shore was a perfect example. Every other town seemed to get destroyed while the ones in between did not. It was all in how it swirled. The people here in my new neighborhood told me that they never lost power in Sandy. Weird.
