➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[ShrekDawg]

The kittens are now 17 weeks old...a week over 4 months.

Awww

Its also dark til 7AM i forgot to mention that

It gets light pretty early here now I think. But it would be totally dark by like 7 or even early. It starts getting darker around like 5 or 6

 

[ShrekDawg]

Still without power. Lost a huge pine tree overnight and a few other trees but thankfully none near the house. Drove all over looking at damage. It’s crazy. Especially by the water. Lots of docks damaged. But trees and branches down everywhere.

The street behind us had the top of a maple fall right on the power lines. Tree still blocking the road. Lines still down. Thankfully it’s not the lines that run to our house but still.

We are now attempting to set the generator up as it’s clear it may be out all day.

I’ll post some pictures of the damage later. Uploading pictures on data is very slow, time consuming, and uses a lot of data. So I’m going to wait. I think once we get the generator running, the internet should still be fine as the lines don’t appear to be damaged. We’ll see.

Still very windy here. The warning goes till about 6 I think.

One of the trees that fell was very rotten and filled with carpenter ants and other bugs. Gave the chickens said rotten wood and leaf litter underneath it where they had run to hide (we cut right through the nest). The chickens were in heaven.

I’ll be back later if we can get the internet working but if not I’ll be back tomorrow.

 

[sdm111]

My central heater is on

OMG come on!!

 

[sdm111]

I'll be in land between the lakes in Kentucky next week I hope it's cool or cold

 

[ShrekDawg]

This storm was crazy

https://www.boston.com/weather/weather/2019/10/17/observed-wind-gusts-storm-massachusetts

We got 80 MPH wind gusts and probably 1.5, 2 inches of rain.

Several trees down.

But we didn’t even get the worst of it. Docks broke loose or just plain broke. Boats on top of the marsh. Extremely high tide and flooding. Trees and branches down everywhere. Some on people’s houses and cars. We got lucky in that regard. Fences down. Numerous power outages. Etc.

We still haven’t gotten power back but we did get the generator up and running a couple hours ago so we have internet, TV, some lights, but most importantly the fridge. Not sure when power will be back. Over 200K without power in Massachusetts alone. It was down to about 150K but is increasing again for some reason. I think there’s another storm or more rain rolling in.

Here’s pics of the damage as well as the chickens enjoying all the bug filled rotten wood/leaf litter I gave them

Spoiler: Storm damage

 

[mixedUPturk]

OMG come on!!

I know i just HATE to be cold it hurts. The heat doesnt hurt my inside like this. I just Glisten... like a Horse!

 

[Kiki]

OMG come on!!

I laughed out loud.

 

[Kiki]

This storm was crazy

https://www.boston.com/weather/weather/2019/10/17/observed-wind-gusts-storm-massachusetts

We got 80 MPH wind gusts and probably 1.5, 2 inches of rain.

Several trees down.

But we didn’t even get the worst of it. Docks broke loose or just plain broke. Boats on top of the marsh. Extremely high tide and flooding. Trees and branches down everywhere. Some on people’s houses and cars. We got lucky in that regard. Fences down. Numerous power outages. Etc.

We still haven’t gotten power back but we did get the generator up and running a couple hours ago so we have internet, TV, some lights, but most importantly the fridge. Not sure when power will be back. Over 200K without power in Massachusetts alone. It was down to about 150K but is increasing again for some reason. I think there’s another storm or more rain rolling in.

Here’s pics of the damage as well as the chickens enjoying all the bug filled rotten wood/leaf litter I gave them

Spoiler: Storm damage

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Oh my.

 

[mixedUPturk]

I laughed out loud.

do the kidsalso work as an excuse? Cant have cold toddlers who cant really tell me if theyre cold?

 

[Kiki]

do the kidsalso work as an excuse? Cant have cold toddlers who cant really tell me if theyre cold?

I would use them as an excuse if I were you.