'Effin Irene

Wow! "beautiful" pictures, what a perspective.

 

Got power back yesterday afternoon, though I didn't know that until I got home from the gym around 9. That's how I got hot showers all week. Went to the gym after work and brought my shampoo and soap. It also killed some time that would have been otherwise spent staring into the dark.

 

or until ski season, which VT officials have been saying they will be ready for.

 

Did upstate New York get hit as bad as Vermont? Say around the Rochester/Cooperstown area?

I figure the thruway would be ok by now, but what about the roads to Cooperstown?

 

I live in the Mohawk Valley of New York and Schoharie, Middleburgh, Amsterdam, Fonda, Schenectady etc. all got hit pretty hard.

A link to some photos
http://watphoto.zenfolio.com/p553094035

 

A friend's brother down in the Richmond area still doesn't have power and Dominion Virginia has stopped estimating when they'll have it back on. Richmond.com is running a contest: the last Richmonder without power wins a generator: http://www2.richmond.com/forms/last-richmonder-without-power-contest/

 

I live there, too, and cross the Mohawk River on my way to Saratoga every day. Never saw it so high and boiling mad. Yesterday AM, it looked like a polished mahogany desktop. Farmers in Schoharie County especially devastated.

 

Hilarious and infuriating at the same time.

 

One of the 10 costliest disasters in American history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/us/31floods.html?_r=1&hp

 

TD Bank Ballpark in Somerset, N.J.

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20110829/NJSPORTS0302/308290040/Patriots-staff-cleaning-up-after-Irene-related-flooding