It was a pleasant surprise. We're all okay here. I'm speaking only for us and our immediate surroundings of course and we've heard from the whole family. Some branches down, and one old tree in the woods is gone. We didn't have a power outage last night, but we certainly planned for one, didn't we?
As you've all heard, NYC and the surrounding areas didn't fare so well. We kept waiting here for something other than wind and rain to happen, but it didn't. We're getting ready to leave tomorrow for Fla. We'll be packing today.
Paul is putting things in the car as I write. We have those spaces under the seats that are where we stuff items that we don't need till we get to Fla. He's filling those now. I have a long list of thing I need to do, so I need to get started, but I procrastinate.
We talked with Lue last night, and she and Greta are okay. She'd been out earlier yesterday and went to the store and got food and did some errands.
This morning Greg called us and so did Brenda - They're the two people who are not anywhere near where Sandy was. (California and Florida) We also heard from Dorothy up in Ontario, NY - a few trees down, but all okay. And Lee said that an apple tree came down in their big back yard. The Corningites had five trees across their long steep driveway.
It's Charles 15th birthday today and tonight we're going over there for cake. We'll take excess food to them from our fridge. Charles has gotten so tall and grown up looking. Then tomorrow we should be on our way.
I'm glad we waited. It felt right.
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