Tuesday, October 30, 2012

On the Other Side of Sandy

Wow.  What a weekend.






I don't know.




  1. Good to know that you all stayed safe. So much destruction and sadness. I'm with you that I don't need to see some rain soaked newstwit. Pictures and safety bulletins are fine, but the "in person" commentary is just so much aggravating noise.

  2. Good to hear you're all safe and sound. Take care on the journey home. x

  3. I didn't watch a single second of it on TV. As usual, I sat in front of my computer, occasionally checking in with weather.com, particularly when it was time for the next hurricane hunter reports. Having lived in Florida for 31 years and experiencing too many hurricanes, I know the drill all too well. And whether they hype it up or not, the sad facts are that many WILL die, much WILL be destroyed and havoc will be wreaked. We just don't know WHO or exactly WHERE and WHEN. And it will cost billions to repair, recover and rebuild. You really can't downplay that. But like all news nowadays, as you say, it is less about simply presenting facts and more about spinning it into something entertaining. And one thing an emergency will uncover yet again... there is never a shortage of idiots.

    I'm so glad you're all safe and sound. I I know darn well how well-fed you were! :)


  4. glad y'all fared well

  5. I'm glad you are safe. I hope things are okay when you get home too. That's one nasty gal and Sandy Bell and I don't care for her name one bit.

    Have a safe trip home. :)

  6. Gee, I must be abnormal. I was up all night watching the news.
    I am very glad you guys stayed safe!!!

  7. And yet, even with all those newspeople out in the wind and rain reporting from the thick of it, some people still didn't heed the warnings and mandatory evacuations.

    I didn't find the coverage over the top at all. I found it informative. I watched The Weather Channel. There was a bit of hyperbole, but in general I felt like I understood what was happening, why it was happening, and what was likely to happen next, as well as possible without being close to it. And most of what they said actually took place. Some of the results were worse than estimates.

    Glad to hear everyone in your circle made it through OK.

  8. I am a tad embarrassed to admit that we bought into the hype and we over prepared... spent too much money on a generator Monday morning when I happened to be at the store when an emergency shipment arrived. Murphy's law.. when you own a generator, the lights will not go out. But we were lucky, because had it gone out and we didn't have a generator our basement surely would have flooded. I feel blessed to have dodged the power bullet. Our only damage besides a few broken tree limbs in the yard... one piece of siding off the house. Of course its the piece at the very top, unreachable by regular ladder. We shall have to ponder this one... hardly seems worth erecting scaffold for one piece. Sigh.

  9. So glad to hear that you are all safe and sound!! I so agree with you, responsible journalism seems to have flown out the window and I couldn't believe it when these journalists were warning people about the storm while standing right at the water's edge where the waves were practically pulling them in! I think the bright lights of the cameras have fried their brains!!!

    Anyway, since today is Halloween, here's a little poem for you...

    This is Halloween

    Goblins on the doorstep,
    Phantoms in the air,
    Owls on witches' gate posts,
    Giving stare for stare.

    Cats on flying broomsticks,
    Bats against the moon,
    Stirring round of fate-cakes,
    With a solemn spoon.

    Whirling apple parings,
    Figures draped in sheets,
    Dodging, disappearing,
    Up and down the streets.

    Jack-o'-lanterns grinning,
    Shadows on a screen,
    Shrieks and starts and laughter--
    This is Halloween!

    Happy Halloween, dear Linda, and make sure you come by my blog today for my Halloween Bash and see what costume I dressed you up in! hehe xoxo


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