Tricia, Your writing brightens my day. I hope the sun comes to brighten yours.

Too funny Tricia - well except for the part about being worried for your property. Hope we've taken some of your water back!

Tricia, that was funny!

Now seriously, how is it going?

Nancy

Sorry, Tricia, I know you have more than enough...
I am worrying about all those people up north of me....and you know who you are...canoe Linda for one. They are breathing their hot breath and holding their doors open and melting all that snow waaaaay too fast and it's all running down stream!
Now all you uop north....get out your snow shovels and fill your freezers with what's left of that snow....we don't need any more of that melted stuff just now.
Linda c

We got our butts kicked Sat nite...my neighboorhood has trees down power lines and loss of power in certain area UGHH!!! What a weekend!

We have too much wet & wind! Too much snow, too much rain, to much wind.....As the Bay is pushing its way North, docks are under water again. Yards are flooded, the ground is soaked. We were spared the worst of this storm, but those in NY,NJ,CT - I've been watching and hoping you all are okay.
It has been a rough winter for boats here. I've watched lifts break & powerboats full of snow plunge into the icey river, a 40' beautiful sailboat sink, covers, sails ripped to shreds.....this is all from my window.

When they do release the water from the the North, we will get flooded again....along with all the carp and trash that people carelessly throw onto the banks and into the water.
Mattresses, logs, oil drums, all kinds of dangerous debris.
We all need clear skies, sun would be really nice, calm days & starry quiet nights.

Tricia, Your post would be funny to me, if I didn't feel your exasperation :). Coastal flooding is not funny, but your post is written when the humor we feel living on the water.:-)

Us too. My kids school is likely going to be closed another day or two. People are lined up at gas stations getting gas for generators, there are still HUGE trees down blocking major roads, and plumbing company trucks are in every other driveway.

My kids are thrilled to be off from school, but at this rate they're going to be in school until July 4th.

AM

Well, we are battered, bruised, flooded, and missing a few shingles but we are not broken! We shall overcome...

Whew, this was a tough one. Just didn't want to end. Today, our cove still has white caps; but the water has retreated (mostly). It has left behind washed out roads, not just downed trees but missing trees...just gone out to sea, battered landscaping, paint stripped from our houses from a saltwater powerwash, flooded basements galore (we don't have a basement), and hundreds of tired utility workers.

DH has been out working on clean-up since daybreak. The sun is shining & we're got a comparatively light breeze @ 15 mph. The town's emergency management team has been out looking at our street discussing whether it can be patched or will required regrading and a total redo.

The biggest concern though is we have lost a significant piece of land from our cove to erosion. It's estuary marsh land so very difficult, if not impossible, to repair. It means that the next storm will have an easier time pushing inland. The water's only about 30' from the road now for around a 75' stretch and, basically, at equal elevation. Not much safety net. We lost about 10-15'.

It's so tranquil today it's hard to believe the heavy weather of the past 3 days. We've even got a mated pair of swans back on our cove. I hope they didn't have a nest that was washed away. Our osprey's haven't yet returned to their nests to lay this year's eggs. A couple weeks later and this storm would have wiped them out.

magothyrivergirl, yes, I know what you are talking about with the boats taking a hit this winter. We've got damage everywhere...shrink wrapping torn to shreds, damaged docks, lifts toppled, even seawall breaches. Spring commissioning this year will be more repair work than getting fun new biminis or a new BBQ to hang off the stern.

Hope everybody else made it through OK. I know there are thousands here in New England that have serious damage and will be months recovering. We consider ourselves Blessed that the house is still sitting on the same site it was a week ago. Actually, I feel lucky we even have a site left.

/tricia

Our osprey returned last Thursday during the storm! I thought they would be late, but I guess they didn't get the bad weather memo. I have a marker in front of my house that the CG didn't clean out the nest over the winter. The last time this happened a few years ago, they clean it out after the eggs were laid. I was furious, and it took many phone calls to get to the right person to complain. Unless it is a navigational hazard (light out) they aren't suppose to disturb the nest.
I am sorry about your loss of marsh land - this area lost alot during Isabel in 2003 - you never recover from that. And you are right, it is your only defense.
I am hoping you are all safe and I am thinking of you.

I know I heard from Dishesdone and she's been without power since Sunday, they got one heck of a storm. she says they have downed trees and downed power lines everywhere.

Here there have only been flood advisories for the last couple of weeks, the rivers are over their banks nearly everywhere, but they usually are with the spring runoff anyway, plus it's been raining like crazy most days.

Stay dry, stay safe.

Annie

Tricia, I am just seeing this! We had a lot of flooding too..Down the block the pond washed right across to the Bay..lots of flooded basements and people without power. We were lucky...we kept our power..lost cable but still had elect.
I hope by now things are better there. It has been beautiful for several days..I hope the other shoe doesn't drop!
Thanks for asking for me! :)