Hurricane Sandy

[Verne_Frantz]

I'm right in the center of NJ and right now it's blowing pretty hard. Not much rain though (yet). As of yesterday, I was more worried about the rain that was forecast because when Irene hit last year, the whole flood plain behind me came up in my yard and was within less than an inch of flooding a shed with "some" items in there that would not do well underwater. I was very lucky. Yesterday, my wife and I moved a LOT of stuff to another location and I raised many other things off the floor.
One good thing was that this year the town opened the flood gates on the lake to let it drain down ahead of time. Last year the lake was already near full from other rain and it breached the damn due to Irene, and flooded the entire downtown along with 1/2 of my property. Now I'm just a little more worried about the wind because we're surrounded by trees.

Last year:


Verne
PS: at least I'm well supplied with black russian fixins.....