Long Live Frank Fixaris!

Everyone okay after that storm? Hopefully no damage to your homes? We appear to have escaped any problems at the TFGAR Estate. Supposedly we're supposed to get 3-6 inches of snow tonight into tomorrow...

Zero damage here in Auburn. Just a whole lot less snow pack on the ground, which I don't mind at all.

Although I've heard some horror stories from friends and family. My sister was without power in Brunswick for the night, and found a trampoline hung up on her fence...she doesn't own a trampoline nor does the neighbor on the other side of the fence. A friend of mine in Portland had a tree come down in front of her house, narrowly missing her car and totaling her neighbor's. Another friend down in central MA had about 16 inches of snow on Wednesday, followed by about four inches of rain yesterday, and has been without power for most of both days. It's a mess down there.

I'm in Bruswick, but we never lost power at my house. (Which is good, because otherwise the basement would be full of water). A few small branches strewn about the yard, and I had to go gather my trash can, but that's about it. The only snow left on my property is from the snow bank at the end of the driveway.

Anybody who didn't get their ice-fishing shack off the Androcoggin River is going to be ice-fishing-shack fishing for it, because the ice is all gone down here.

It's just crazy. I feel fortunate that my house was spared, but I also feel like Mother Nature owed me this one. Each of the last three years, something bad has happened as a result of a big storm like this (tree through the roof of the garage, roof leaks in the kitchen and living room, power out for three days when wife was 9 months pregnant), so I'm selfishly happy to have gotten a pass on this one.

Lost power around midnight last night, it is still out. Very thankful for the generator.

The old guy who is the Durham maintenance department was out early this morning with a chainsaw clearing a couple of trees that had blocked our road.

Lost a downspout, filled the shopvac twice in the basement, but we're lucky- no major damage.

The storm just before Thanksgiving 2008 told me everything I needed to know about where water is going to come into my house. So I'm pretty well covered, unless the power goes out b/c I don't have a generator to keep the sump pump going. But so far, so good.

roaddie a cheaper cleaner easier alternative for running a sump pump if you lose power is one of those rechargeable power cells that you can buy at a marina. they don't hold a ton of juice but if you keep it charged and ready you could run a sump pump off one for quite a while. i think they go for about $15o and of course need no fuel and put off no exhaust.

Yeah, the Law School was cancelled. . .man, and I was really looking forward to the Prof taking me to task on the Schaeffer case. Man, why do I always have the bad luck.

Thanks for the tip, j-bang.

I ended up losing power for 22 hours. I had water in my basement but I thankfully got my generator working so I was able to run the pump. My street and neighborhood had a fair amount of damage. I have pics but my computer was affected by the power outage as it won't let me download them or run other programs. My CD-Rom isn't working either so I guess it's time for a new computer. The winds took my neighbor's full metal storage shed and threw it probably 50 yards over a line of trees. It's demolished and his stuff is all over the place. The wind also took a trampolene from someone at least 200-250 yards away from me and took it over 3 houses and a line of trees and dropped it in a tree in my back yard. I still can't fathom at how far it traveled and what it cleared. My house was moaning and groaning and I thought my windows were going to blow in. I live probably 3 miles from the ocean. We did some sight seeing and on Pine Point Rd in Scarborough there were 10 consecutive power poles snapped off at the top. It was quite the sight to see. According to the NWS there was a windspeed of 78 at the jetport, 62 in Camp Ellis, and 94 in Cape Elizabeth. That was nuts.

I will say that with all of these storms, natural disasters, and especially the Haiti quake and now the 8.8 quake in Chile the movie 2012 doesn't seem so far fetched.

These storms are clearly the result of God punishing the people who voted in favor of gay marriage.

My son and I took the Amtrak Downeaster to the Celtics/Cavs game on Thursday and the train ended up hitting debris on the tracks. We were stuck on the train for hours. Busses finally arrived at our location in Exeter NH at 4:30 or so in the AM. We got to the train station in Portland around six am and I was home at about 7. My son slept through most of it, I however was up for about 27 straight hours.

Wow, that sucks Linc. Glad you're OK, though.

Thanks. I just kept thinking that it could have been worse.