No problem with venting, Dee, vent away, LOL!!! I have a son a lot like that who's 24!!! and still childish in ways. Guys really seem to mature slower than girls. Ya gotta love them BUT...those brains of theirs just don't seem to turn on until, say, 30? Okay, well, some exceptions, like our Mike. And I love the guys, just frustrated, like you, Dee.
(Oh my, just thinking about the housekeeping issues with a big guy back home again. My son's thing is he WON'T clean his bathroom and no one else can get in to clean it, so after a while it gets that GUY smell to it. Aaaargh!)
But maybe this will make your son drive more responsibly, if the accident was his fault. If not...well, he's gonna learn to value money more and to be REEEEALLY careful in his car, so he doesn't get another insurance hike. I had them years ago, because after my divorce I was a SHE-DEVIL on the road, and let me tell you, those rates never go back to where they were before the accidents.
Most importantly, your son (the big, burly, guy-smelling guy) is okay. (Love them big burly guy-smelling kids. They really are boys underneath all of that man posturing.)
You know, if you go to the English paper, the Daily Mail, they have wonderful photos and a story about the storm. Let me see if I can find a link for you, Nan.
26 inches??? UGH! I hope hope hope that they brought enough food and water to get through this and have blankets (and a generator) to get through this. That's awful being stuck in a huge snowstorm. If WV isn't used to getting much snow, their roofs probably aren't pitched for it to come down easily and they sure will collapse. Oh no! When will this storm be done with us?
YinYin, thanks so much for the update on the Jersey Shore. Breaks my heart, as I spent many happy summer holidays farther down in Seaside Heights. And I truly hated to hear about parts of the historic AC boardwalk washing away. That's part of our history. So many people have passed by on those slats of wood. And who can think of AC without thinking of Bruce Springsteen? Soooo much history there.
You're not kidding, all of that damage from the salt water getting into your house. I guess it can corrode mechanical and electrical gizmos. Let's hope that not too many people have suffered that fate. How will this affect your boyfriend's job? Will it give him ore work or take work away from him? The latter isn't good at all in this economy, so let's hope he gets work helping with the cleanup.
I'm glad you're not getting flooding or anything from this cussed storm. Or major winds. I guess the storm is waring itself and its welcome out.
Here's one for the Jersey Shore:
Beyond the palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors And the boys try to look so hard The amusement park rises bold and stark Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist I wanna die with you wendy on the streets tonight In an everlasting kiss The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive Everybodys out on the run tonight but there's no place left to hide Together wendy well live with the sadness Ill love you with all the madness in my soul Someday girl I don't know when were gonna get to that place Where we really want to go and well walk in the sun But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run
Our rivers are still raging, overflowing, taking homes down. We have had crash trucks go by the house twice today, who knows what that was about! They kayak where the Potmac and Shanandoah Rivers meet, could have gone for someone there!
They are used to terrible weather, up in Garret County. Frostburg is one of the towns up there, aptly named!
I am so sorry to hear of your plight. I have dealt with a flooded basement and I know it is NO fun. Thank God for your husband. My joints have also been bad and I have had to resort to taking Percocet. You know the fun I had with Morphine. Well the percocet takes away the pain and gives me back bad anxiety attacks. ARGGGHHH...what fun we all have!
The weather channel had not really covered MD, but Fox news had some good coverage of the wreckage of Ocean City and other areas of the Eastern Shorebeing evacuated, being carried out of their flooded homes by volunteer firemen, plus showed the roads in Western MD where power lines and trees were snapped from the snow. The Potomac is overflowing closer to DC, guess I will soon get a report on it in our area, as husband will have to cross it to take the grandson home, he did NOT want to go!
Our neighbor said it is much worse across the mountain toward the city, last I heard my son is still at work, they are to put buses back on the road tomorrow with lines and trees still down. That should be tricky!
Anyone heard from Gianna, she is in VA, there are still strong storms going on there last I heard.
Yes, if you know about these folks, please let us now that they're safe. Hard to believe how easy it is to lose track of people when phones and computers are down. It's scary to think of cities and towns being cut off from everyone and everything else and holding on by the fingernails after being pummeled by the beast, Sandy. We take all of our modern conveniences for granted, as well as safe access in and out of our own houses, and yet all of that can be gone in a strange and savage instant.
Nan, I saw the film of Superstorm Sandy throwing the goliathan waves of the Great Lakes over the shore like someone had tossed live grenades into the water. I have never seen anything like it and was petrified by the footage. I surely hope that no one got swept away by those monstrous waves.
SK, I saw a brief bit on Maryland. Too much coverage on Atlantic City and New York City and too little on everywhere else that was smashed by this storm, in my humble opinion. Of course AC and NYC are extremely important (well NYC is, anyway) but the lack of coverage for other affected states is annoying to me. I hope this is rectified in the coming nights. But by God, I also hope that more damage isn't wreaked elsewhere from this freak storm.
Sk, I am just now reading all the postings here about the FRANKENSTORM. As I have never been affected by any hurricane because of where I live in the province of Alberta in Canada, reading all these postings is very sobering. My heart feels your stress and pain. I was away over the weekend and there was no time for watching TV or listening to the radio so I knew NOTHING about Hurricane Sandy until I got home Monday night. Since then I have been sleeping a lot. I would be up for periods of time half awake trying to catch up with all my e-mails. I also was sending welcomes to the new members since I left last Thursday.
No, I did not feel the earthquake as it was quite a long ways west of me.
We think we are in control of our lives.........and then something like this happens and we realize that we are helpless. Yet God is in control. At times like these all we really can do is to pray to God that He sees us through. He never leaves us nor forsakes us. The material things like homes can be rebuilt but lives lost cannot be restored. As Sheila said miraculously so little life was lost in such a massive storm.
I am praying for you all, but my immediate concern is for JC as we have not heard from him. I am waiting to hear from him. Does he live alone? Or with his mother?
After surviving this massive storm we should hug our loved ones and say a huge thank you to God for sparing human life.
I posted all I could find on his town of Seaside Heights on page 10. I pray he is well, that is all we can do. He was in the hands of the Red Cross so we have to assume he is safe. Many of these areas are experiencing gas leaks, fires, downed power lines, many buildings/homes, bridges, were ruined or flooded. From what I know he has his own small place on the beach of Seaside Heights. This is where the amusement park is.
Our skies are still black, haven't seen a bird in days! The barometric pressure has affected me terribly, and am not up that often yet.
No word from JC or Gianna. The news says more leaking gas lines in NJ, haven't heard about VA lately. It is cold and raining here. Even though the lake in the back is receeding, it is more than 4 times as large as my dining room, and front porch! The one beside it is 10 times that large! It it freezes we could ice skate with plenty of room!
Scott posted on our moderators site that JC is still in a NJ shelter, that the EMT's are taking care of his medical needs. They have Scott and Tracy's (Chiari) phone number.