The predictions were spot on for the storm track. It was one heck of a powerful wind here. I fully expected to loose my electricity but I still have both my cable and my power today. I am clearly in the minority here not sure why. I went outside and nothing seems to be blown off the house, only twigs,sticks and lots of leaves laying around.
I feel very fortunate and gratefully underwhelmed. Lots of places very close to me are experiencing loss of power,flooding and fallen trees. Many of the friends on my wifes Facebook have posted pictures of fallen trees and flooding.
My wife wouldn't go upstairs last night because of the super loud howling of the wind she was afraid we might get a tree in the house. I went upstairs, turned on a fan to drown the noise and went to sleep.Probably not the smartest thing to do but I was tired.
I hope/pray Danny and those guys in Jersey are ok today. The closer you are to the Jersey shore the worse things seemed to be as obviously lower areas were more prone to flooding and those directly on the beach were most open to the direct assault of the storm.Our winds here were probably in the 50mph range with higher gusts possible. Closer to the shore the winds were much higher.