And yeah, didn't we just do this? And actually, Irene was much more... exciting for us. I spent most of Sandy watching The Weather Channel and Netflix while eating too much.
Lessons from Hurricane Sandy:
- Sometimes it's best to have the eye of the storm pass over (or just about over) you. Even though the maps forecasting the path are scary (especially as you go from the center of the projected path, to the center of the projected eye, to watching it heading your way on radar), it's not always the worst place to be. Oddly, hundreds of miles away can be worse than bulls-eye.
- Buying a generator will ensure that you will not need said generator. This is not a bad thing!
- The governor of Delaware is an awesome governor who put mandatory driving restrictions in effect that gave me 1.5 days off to let me worry about little things like being prepared to fire up the generator to power the sump pump and battle the basement floods. He also allowed me to stay up as long as possible on Sunday night/Monday morning as I tried to wait out the inevitable power failure that never came. Oh, and saved me from that whole driving-in-a-worsening-hurricane thing. Our company's disaster hotline kept saying business as usual until several hours after his restrictions were announced.
- I am glad that I do not have a work laptop.
- It can always be worse. A house basically across the street from mine had a fire Sunday morning/early afternoon, and from my door I watched as they went from all of their windows broken out, no door, and a hole in their roof to the whole thing boarded up in preparation for the storm in just a few hours. It can always be worse.
So, we didn't fare badly. From where I was it sounded like a rain storm. A long one, yes, but a rain storm.
The caulking that Richard and Andy did over the summer proved to be just the thing needed to keep the basement dry.
All-in-all, uneventful.
I know there are many, many others who have it worse. I feel like I dodged a bullet and guilty for being so relieved.
Here's Sandy just about sitting on my house:
2 comments:
I am glad it turned out O.K. for you "down south." It just sounded like rain to you? Maybe the pressure on my ears made it sound worse!
The way it was hitting the house, considering that it is a townhouse and we are blocked on two sides, really didn't sound like much. Every now and then we would hear some loud gusts, but nothing much. I'm sure there was worse going on outside, but whenever I peeked out a window it just seemed breezy.
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