On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 19:19:34 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/30/2017 7:06 PM, wrote:

On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 12:26:00 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


Curious as to how those south of us experienced this latest storm that
worked up the coast yesterday. We got wacked pretty hard up here.
Many schools are closed, trees and limbs are down all over the place and
power is out for about 93 percent of the affected areas. Ours was out
since about 1 am but had been restored by mid morning. Little Honda
generator to the rescue again to keep the refrigerator cold along with
running a few lights.

I didn't even know it was a named storm until I turned in the TV. It
was just wind and rain. I guess anything that was going to get blown
away blew away 6 weeks ago.


It must have intensified as it worked it's way up the coast.
It's being referred to as the "Surprise" storm around here, not due to
the heavy rains but the 50 mph sustained winds and gusts over 80 mph.
One place in New Hampshire recorded a 132 mph gust.

I am not sure what we actually had here. I know it was blowing a might
but that is not unusual down here. It may have cranked up once it got
back into the Atlantic tho. We did get about 2" of rain in a few
hours.