Here in RI, we got rain; lots and lots of RAIN. In fact, we set a record for a 48 hour period, over 5.11 inches!!! Everything is a damp soggy mess. And we had flooding "in all the usual places," as the local weather folks say.

This afternoon, we drove up to Dad's house to check on things. The power has been off since about 2 AM on Friday, and so there is no heat. The water was still running, so no frozen pipes, YET! We will have to go up and check again.

The back yard is a mass of downed pine branches from the storm. Will have to get someone to clean up. We have 4 pine trees back there, huge ones, over 150 years old. Surprising, the lamp post and light are in tact, the picnic table is fine, nothing damaged, just lots of downed limbs!

I took photos , but we got up there at dusk so they didn't come out too clearly.

While we were there, the next door neighbor's son drove up. He has power and his mom is staying with him (she is close to dad's age, 82 or thereabouts). He said it was a strange experience, you didn't realize much during the storm, it was AFTER, when you went outside and saw all the downed utility poles, limbs and branches and such that you realized there had been an "event!" His mom did hear one or 2 crashes from the tree branches during the night of the storm. She promptly advised us what she heard were the ones coming down in OUR yard; apparently the ones in HER yard came down silently! LOL, she had us in stitches.

The collateral damage (from lack of heat, things like frozen pipes and food going bad in the refrigerator, as well as people using improperly vented gas heaters) is what makes this a tough thing.