Just heard from Mike and Mona,
in case you didn't know, their house is on the water in Center Moriches.
He said that they only had "minor wet" in the lower portion of the house,
wiped out a
shelf about 16 inches off the floor.
Considering the predicted storm surge and winds, they made out very good!
I'm a few miles inland on Long Island, and we had only a few branches down, a
little
water in the basement and one of my fence gate doors snapped a hinge.
We haven't lost power (yet!), probably because we were lucky to find a
generator
in Upstate New York before heading back down here yesterday.
We had called a dozen places while we were up there, and almost every store
was sold out!
Kinda bizarre as upstate NY wasn't supposed to get much damage from the
storm.
Brian S.
Bugeyeracer finally resto'ed!
Thanks to Frank C.!
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:50:08 -0400
> From: mdrowe at optonline.net
> To: bmwwxman at gmail.com; spridgets at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Hurricane Irene and our East Coast friends...
>
> > David Booker, Michael Rowe, Cap'n Bob... This is for you guys and I
know
> > there are more Long Islanders on the lists!!!
>
> I spent the day bringing in the boat, taking tools, etc. off the floor of my
> shop and putting them up on anything that looks like it won't float. I even
> managed to lift an engine 18" by progressively blocking the ends and rocking
> it up.
>
> The highest mud line on my stairway is at about 2'. (That one really
> cleaned out my shop of years of sawdust, cut-off ends and empty plastic
> bottles - all gone to Iceland!) I will park the Midget on the septic tank
> (= high ground) and take the other cars inland to the fire station parking
> lot (no trees). If we get evacuated, we will stay in the camper van at the
> firehouse. We really have no choice, as the Coast Guard Station is at the
> end of our road, and they check each house as they leave.
>
> Michael Rowe
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