Rain from the hurricane / tropical storm

Ken Macfarlane

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Just got the power back after almost 4 days, whew, glad as moving generators all over the neighbourhood all day and night is tiring. No power, phones, cell phones or internet during outage.

Got 144 mm of rain which is darned close to 6 inches in about 12 hours. Fields are saturated or underwater in some cases.

On our 20 acres of woodlot there is at least 100 full cords of blown down trees. Whole patches of 65 year old spruce and white pine laid over.

Lots of boats got loose out of marinas and sunk, fancy cabin cruisers smashing against rocks in the river. Had to do a lot of chainsawing to get to town for fuel for the generator.

Everyone worked well together in neighbourhood, got 11 families food into my sisters and I's freezers or just used the tractor to bring their whole deep freeze over to plug in.

Nice break from modern living to enjoy working with neighbours cutting trees and getting water!
 
We are getting heavy thunderstorms here in Lewis Co. right now. Possible tornado warnings in central NY right now. Supposed to last until around 8pm.
 
It finally calmed down enough in Iowa to get some hay down, we will see if it holds out for four days to get it up.
 
I cannot get into my fields either, too wet here in west Michigan.
Global warming or just weather patterns, I don't think anyone knows. But after this past winter, I'm not complaining too much.
 
Rain/wind went thru Syracuse NY before 5PM, couldn't see more than 50FT thru rain. Wind dropped tree on a transformer knocking out power at work about 6PM. Let us outa work almost 8:30 with no idea when power might be back on. Called 3rd shift said don't come in. Only 2nd time in 14+ yrs I been there they did this.
 
Ken, you folks don't get much hurricane activity in those parts do you? I didn't keep up with the storm after it left NC, so I didn't know it did much damage in other areas.
 

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