Oct. 30, 2017 Storm
Hi all,
Today is Saturday and we just got CATV, Land-Line and Internet back sometime last night.. Still no power though. At the height of the storm there were over 400,000 power outages here in Maine! That effects over 50% of the entire population! As of this morning there are still over 35,000 without power with just one of the power companies and that includes us! There are line-crews from 14 states and Canada helping out, so we hope we may have power by the end of today.
We were lucky, as we only had one-half of a maple tree at the top of our driveway split off and lodge in trees on the other side of the drive like a cross bar. It was 16-18-feet off the ground so we could drive under it. I roped it up and was able to haul it down with the four wheel drive. It's already cut-up, split and stacked in the woodshed.
We have a small camp on a little pond about 20 minutes from here and a large pine tree blew over and missed the corner of the porch (that I built in 2005) by about 6 inches!! The branches didn't even break any of the four windows on that side, The tree was 18" in diameter at the butt and over 60-feet tall. it would have crushed the porch roof for sure! The lot is covered with large pines and that was the only one we lost.
Our middle grand daughter got a nice deer Thursday afternoon after school. It's all cut-up, packaged and in the freezer. (They got their power back on Wednesday.)
We pretty much stayed home and caught up on our book reading..
Hope all you guys have been fine..
Roger
