Sandy check in, Tuesday.

[satama]

How is everyone holding up today?

[satama]

In Baltimore,and we still have power! We had the basement all set up to sleep down there but ended up not needing it. Some leaking in my upstairs bathroom, DH will go up in the attic to check on that again in a bit.

Hope everyone is staying safe.

[Wines Not Whines]

Doing fine in Maryland, just outside DC. We still have power, which amazes me.

[mrsw101109]

In North Jersey... We lost power twice for a few hours each time. We are fine. DHs brothers each live a block away from each oter in Staten Island and we are pretty certain their houses are totally destroyed.

[satama]

Oct 30, 2012 6:25:29 GMT -5 Wines Not Whines said:

Doing fine in Maryland, just outside DC. We still have power, which amazes me.

We only lost ours for a couple minutes and had some flickers. I am really surprised since our lines are above ground. Hoping we are out of the woods as far as that goes.

[Deleted]

Central NJ near Princeton. Power has been out since 8 pm last night. We lost some siding on our house and our grill cover, which is no biggie. No word on my office closing, but the radio station next door is running on a back up generator and there are travel restrictions all over.

[luvmagoldn]

We never lost power and our big trees are still standing so we seem to have weathered the storm just fine.

Watching coverage over night I saw some major damage in a lot of different locations. My heart goes out to all who are impacted.

[rubytue]

Baltimore - I was up every 2 hours last night checking the power/sump pump. We kept power all night and still this morning. Yay! Quick survey from the back deck and it looks like our neighborhood is pretty good.

I'm a bit worried about our rental house. Looking at the outage map, I'm pretty sure they are dark. No sump and no well pump. Can't decide if I should call or just wait for them to let us know.

[Deleted]

We still have power!! I think most of our neighborhood is out - I watched 3 transformers blow last night. And the huge tree in our front yard that has some dead limbs we were planning on having trimmed barely dropped any leaves. I honestly can't believe this. In our small neighborhood I've already heard about a car being crushed and a roof ripping off.

[gt7301b]

NOVA - The power is on, the basement is dry, and the trees are all still standing. Things are looking good in my hood.

[Deleted]

NOVA. Still no power. House is kinda cold. Haven't ventured downstairs yet. Looks like I might be living off granola bars for a while.

[CloudBee]

Our power actually just came back on. We were also told we can now run water and flush the toilets. The sewage treatment plant was shut down yesterday.

We have trees down in the woods, large limbs in the backyard, and we are missing panels of our fence. (Backyard was fenced in.)

Our offices don't have power so we are both going to do a bit of work from home. Maybe in a few hours we'll put on boots and venture out.

[mommylikestattoos]

Hudson Valley- awesome, power barely flickered, satellite tv worked all night, and just some minor branches around the yard. I feel very fortunate after seeing all the pics on the news and friends FB updates!!

[drloretta]

South of Boston. Lost power for about 20 minutes yesterday afternoon, just like last year with Irene. Our immediate area seems to be fine--DH and I are very happy we cut down that tree hanging over our neighbor's pool shed.

DH's work has no power, so he has a delayed start. I have a feeling that will turn into another work from home day for him.

MIL is in central PA so we'll check on her today and see how she and her mom are doing.

[fbf2006]

Queens, NY.
Luckily, we didn't lose power or anything. Work is still closed for us since the subways are still closed.

[LoveTrains]

In RI, I didn't lose power at all. Drove past the house I am closing on next week and it looked A OK. I think most of the dead trees/branches came down last year with Irene so there doesn't appear to be much debris in the roads, etc.

My work is closed today.

[badtzmaru22]

Rochester, NY: Friends of ours by Lake Ontario got told to evacuate. Many large trees down/roads closed, and some areas without power, but we are fine. We're a bit more inland from the lake. My work is closed, but DH went in.

[ECB]

Baltimore. SHOCKED that we never lost power. 2 flickers yesterday, but that was it. But my parents lost power last night and I know of a few other people that lost it.

[winnied]

Alexandria, VA. We lost power around 9:30 last night and it just came back on. Not bad! We just went to bed and didn't worry about it.

Stay safe, everyone!

[winemaker06]

In MD (southern Baltimore Co), I still have power but a really wet basement.
We're in about the same situation as last year, but the opposite side of the basement leaked.
Good news is that means H did an awesome job waterproofing last year when he had to rip up all the carpet and bottom 2 feet of drywall last year. Bad news is he'll be doing that again over the next few weeks.

[hannamaren]

Does anyone have the angry face post? "why isnt my power on?"

[katiescarlett]

Northeast PA. We are fine, never lost power. I'm pretty sure we are lucky because everyone I know outside my town has been without power for about 12 hours. No power at work so I'm hanging out at home til it comes back.

[Velvetshady]

In the Blue Ridge west of NoVA...power fluctuated for several hours last night but never stayed out. According to our power co map, about 10% of the people in our county don't have power and pretty much everyone ~ 1/2 mile and further down the mountain are without power. It was icy when I went to bed, it's snowing now. But no where near what my friends in Garrett Co MD are dealing with.

[countthestars]

Central MA - never lost power, though half the town did. School is back on today, so I guess most people are back up and running.

Very sad to see my friends in NJ and surrounding areas facebook photos though. Thinking of you guys down there

[y4m]

Doing great here. We never lost power, and in the neighborhood there are just leaves and small branches down, no trees. The Derecho was much worse here in terms of damage.

[Deleted]

Oct 30, 2012 8:19:19 GMT -5 Velvetshady said:

In the Blue Ridge west of NoVA...power fluctuated for several hours last night but never stayed out. According to our power co map, about 10% of the people in our county don't have power and pretty much everyone ~ 1/2 mile and further down the mountain are without power. It was icy when I went to bed, it's snowing now. But no where near what my friends in Garrett Co MD are dealing with.

I grew up near there...I remember Garrett County was always the one canceling school in the winter because they got so much snow!

[Deleted]

Albany and we're totally fine. My parents, sister, inlaws and SIL are another story though (Westchester county and Central Jersey). Multiple trees down. Basements flooded. Driveways blocked. Power out. A two year old with a fever. I feel so bad for all of them.

[protozoa]

Oct 30, 2012 7:56:24 GMT -5 badtzmaru22 said:

Rochester, NY: Friends of ours by Lake Ontario got told to evacuate. Many large trees down/roads closed, and some areas without power, but we are fine. We're a bit more inland from the lake. My work is closed, but DH went in.

Hi, neighbor! We are BAU here, we have power, and are both back at work. We feel very fortunate that the storm was anticlimatic for us. The worst part was that MIL's dog (we're dogsitting) got freaked out when the storm came in and pooped in the house

[whitepicketfence]

We got hit pretty hard last night (northwestern PA). Luckily, we didn't lose power and didn't have any flooding issues. I'm so glad that our old sump pump broke last month and that we replaced it - it didn't stop running all night to keep up with all the rainfall.

All of the schools here are closed today and some parts of the city apparantly lost power. It wasn't as bad here as some were projecting. It's not raining anymore but we still have high wind warnings in effect until later tonight.

[Wines Not Whines]

We still haven't heard from the ILs in Union County, NJ. Anyone know anything about that area? It's strange they haven't called yet.