OMG the winds are blowing strong here on Long Island... eek.. I hope that everyone else is doing ok... We had a decent rainy day today with very little wind BUT NOW egad!!!! I hope Judy and Les's goats hang on to their houses..!!!! I am going to have to shut off the puter as I am sure the power is going to go out... I can hear the bay roaring,, usually it is just the ocean making noise but not tonight...... Gosh maybe we will be Ocean front instead of Bay view by the morning.....{we have a barrier beach between us and the Atlantic} OK good night all and have a great evening hope to see ya in the morning...{I hope the dock is still there in the morning..}

Hi Freddie, rained hard all day, turned to snow around 6pm. Pamela and I just took the dogs for a walk and trees are already bending from the snow. Hope everyone comes through this lil blow, warm and safe. For those that require pumps, may you not lose power.

Might as well make the best of it, I am going to light the fireplace and enjoy this wintery night

Good attitude Tom Let's hope this is the last of the season for everyone!
We've had a lot of winds here too - way beyond blustery! We could certainly use the rain.

Wow, we have the opposite across the pond, one of the warmest springs that I can remember with temps in the mid 70s.

We spent the day yesterday planting strawberries and doing a hanging basket.

I hope you guys get better weather soon

Well that wasn't anything to worry about. We only received 3" of wet snow, everything looks fine outside. Lost power for about 45 minutes so, I spent a bit of time reprogramming clocks earlier.

The wind is howling outside, I hope it breaks up the ice on "Tha Bay".

I hope all others came through the storm unscathed.

We had a crazy windy/rainy day, too, and the power blinked off 3 times, but nothing major. Tornadoes hit to the northeast of us, but we were just under that line. I stayed out in it most of the day!

So Freddie, did the dock survive? Hoping for good news!

The winds were howling last night! Quite a storm.
Hope everyone made it through without any damage.
Freddie - hope your dock is still there & you don't have oceanfront property!
The goats were fine - all you could see were their little noses poking out of their houses waiting for it to be over!
Seems like the whole east coast got some sort of battering.

Good morning ladies, you too Brain Yup, just walked the dogs, looks like the ice on "Tha Bay" has opened up about a mile offshore

Right now the winds are still wicked howling! And raining 'cats and dogs'. . Forecast is to do this all day and winds may gust up to 60 mph. I just saw another huge tree chunk come down in my yard. The last storm falling trees took out a van window and put a huge dent in my car. Just got the dent fixed on Friday. We are parked in different part of the yard now and crossing my fingers :-) On the postivie side - this is washing away ALOT of the snow in the yard !

The 111th Boston Marathon is today!!!!! Expected runners - 20K - running into the wind & rain!
Hope all goes well with the Marathon

Well.....the state of Maine has declared an emergency, we are getting NAILED with wicked wind and rain right now....expecting coastal flooding. They are figuring a 13 foot surge at high tide....which is 10:30 am. Welcome to a spring Nor'easter!!! Hang onto your hat!!!!

LaDonna

Can you believe that the surfer dudes was in the water at 7;00 AM, State police acted quick to get them out. 20'+ waves is pounding the hell out of the beach. Some homes on the MA / NH boarder are under water. No power along the coast. There is a sea wall in Hampton beach that has piles of rocks the size of baseballs flying over the wall every time a wave crashes in. Cars and homes are being smashed to bits from the flying rocks. All seacoast roads are now closed. Rain for another three days. I should have become a sump-pump salesman!

Jerry, Looking out my window, I believe you!! A building less than a block away just lost it's roof....they are expecting commercial street in downtown to be underwater in the next hour......and I am at work......aren't I a good worker bee?!?!?!

LaDonna

Sorry to hear you folks on the coast are getting hit so bad. Come on over, I am putting the coffee on.

MMMMMMM...Thanks for the invite.....I will be right there!!!



LaDonna

Oh my! LaDonna I hope you brought your scuba gear to work. Hang in there everyone!

Watch out for the swimming pool (mud puddle) by my front door. Gonna put some stones along its' side and call it a moat

Here is a nut-case.

nut case is right!!! What an idiot!!!

I hope they make it ok....not for their sake, but for the sake of the people who would have to try to rescue them!!!

LaDonna

Oh my goodness! Can you read the license plate? Is it from New Hampshire? I thought so.

Sorry folks that was mean spirited of me.

"Lord please forgive me for picking on my neighbors in the upside down state and ............

we are ok here but there was quite a bit of coastal damage..{our favorite dive site will be totally different this year..}

I feel like I live in Venice Italy....

"Live free or die", so they die!

Wow - and I thought it really was bad here driving back from Atlanta in a freakin' blizzard. I knew that the wind was howling down in ATL but as soon as Pete and I changed drivers (I was driving first then we switched to him) it started to snow. OMG - April 15th and it's snowing...IN THE SOUTH... what the HECK!

that looks wild!!!

Wow Jerry, where did you take that picture? Boy does the sea look angry...and snow...hang on all you folks. I'd love to see more pictures. Tom, especially of snow on the trees, or the bay.

We had gale force winds here yesterday as well. CB and Eric did get in a dive on Saturday during a short 'window'. CB said only three on the boat got sick and one wasn't her! We drove down to San Diego to meet up with them yesterday afternoon and went to the Gas Lamp District and had dinner at our favorite Irish Pub, The Field. Live clogging on the bar, and they had a group of about eight men that were doing improv music with fiddles, and a couple Irish instruments I don't know the names of, it was really cool watching them jam. It was good to hook up with them and get to catch up and chat. Very very nice folks

Fence in back of my store just exploded. It's coming down as I sit here.

EEK - exploding fences could be baddddddd

Neighbors dock about to float away.. at a usual low tide there is about a foot of water under the dock this dock you can walk under so it is about 6 foot high
here is a big cedar tree that fell away from our neighbors house thankfully or it would have been a real mess.. this is the house that Babs and Alison stayed at when they visited,, It is right on the water and the bay was over their dock...

Wow Freddie! Jerry looks like you will have some clean up to do when the storms are done.

We don't have any rain in Ohio but the winds are crazy! Sounds like our house is blowing down. I have three guys here working today and I feel so sorry for them out in the wind. At least the one in the bulldozer is out of the wind.

Well.....I just learned of the joy of working for a hospital. We are in a staffing emergency, because of the evacuation of 2 nursing homes, plus other issues, so now anyone who made it into work at the hospital is not allowed to leave.....at all...until they give the ok......I am probably here until at least tomorrow!

FUN FUN!!!!

LaDonna

LaDonna, I feel for you!

Lisa.....I am just focusing on all the GREAT over time they will have to pay me!!!



LaDonna

LaDonna, have a good day, night, day.
Better to be on that end!

Well, I just talked to Andy, and apparently I can't get home anyway. Too many trees down between here and there. All the roads into my house are closed.....so it all works out anyway!!

LaDonna

gives new meaning to the phrase "can't get there from here"

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I was just thinking the same thing LaDonna. And yes - GREAT overtime - sock it away for the next trip to Bonaire.

Wind has died down. It's brightening up. The seagulls are heading east. IT'S OVER FOR US!

Rain will be here till Wed.

LaDonna, hope you have a good night.

Jerry, happy to hear the wind has died down for you, it is ripping here. No rain, no snow, temperature has gotten up to 50(f), saw the sun for a few minutes, but the wind is howling.

That is funny Tom.....I was just coming back to tell y'all that they just canceled the alert for clerical staff only....that means I can go home now!!!

Of course there is still the problem of getting home....but I will happily deal with that!!!

LaDonna

C'mon Gal, put thet truk in for weel drive and get er done.

Big temp drop.
Winds back.
Raining again.

LaDonna, drive safely.

Thanks, Jerry! You too!!!

I am off......I will try to check in when I get home.....IF we have power!!!

LaDonna

Hang in there guys!

Heading home to see the damage to my Japanese garden, Louise called and told me we took a beating after I left for work. A large stone wall gave out and the upper terries are now in my driveway. The Koi pond is half full of mud. I have been working this garden for 30 years now and Louise says it's gone! I'm very sad about that. My baby, a 50 year old elm tree, only 14" tall got covered in mud and many of the branches snapped. I'm really pissed!

Check Please.

Ouch, Jerry!!! That really S**KS!!!!!

As you can tell, I made it home....had to stop and check a friends house, as they are in Buffalo this week....of course....the roof leaked....so I had to do some mopping-up and try to re-direct the incoming water....and of course call them.

UGH!!!!

rain, rain, go away....come again some other day!!!!!

LaDonna

Oh, I'm so sorry for all of you.
LaDonna, Freddie, Jerry, Judy all of ya' please take care - clean up can be dangerous too.
Go easy.

Wow, Freddie..thanks for the pictures...
Emma said there was some "puddling" in NY...Guess she didn't want to worry us ....
We (south Joisy) thought we would get a "raging river" but we lucked out... on this storm anyway.
Glad all are well...
A few good sunny days would be ....nice.