I live!

Man, that storm sucked. I guess that's a pretty juvenile way of putting it, huh? We spent from 3 to about 9 huddled in the basement as the power flicked on and off, and then eventually stayed on. Took a look outside to survey the damage and it doesn't look like we've lost anything more than some medium-sized tree limbs. Central CT really dodged a bullet. Only 16% of our town lost power at the height of the storm. Eastern CT and the coast were not so lucky. I don't know how those areas are going to recover...they had already been walloped by Irene and people were just picking up the pieces. The damage reports out of NYC and NJ are even more catastrophic. It's a part of the country that you'd never think would be vulnerable to a hurricane hit because the typical cyclone track has the storms moving NE away from them and more toward Long Island, but I guess having the storm phase with a trough and get flung back into the coast is the way to do it...if it had remained tropical it probably would have been a tighter storm and not affected such a large area...