Exciting times. Just got the power back on after four days. The little creek in our back yard turned into a monster and carved itself fifty feet wide and thirty feet deep. We now have a canyon with a cliff in our back yard. It scoured down to the bedrock and we have a waterfall almost hidden by the gazillion trees that crashed down. The horses had to be evacuated because the trees were falling all over and the water was eating away the edge of their paddock. A walk of over a mile in the torrential rain uphill. I thought I was going to drop dead.
One huge tree from the opposite bank toppled across and is partially laying in my yard. Darn thing must have been 100 feet tall. We heard clunks and thunks and ripping noises all night long as the trees and big hunks of soil and rock let go. Looks like parts of route 145 just down the hill from us are going to slide into the new canyon sometime soon as the guardrails are already tipping that way and the pavement is cracked.
Middleburgh and Schoharie are devastated and thousands of acres of corn and produce are just gone. Wrecked cars, sheds, houses piled up in strange places. Some of the corn is jammed into the railings of the bridge, lucky it is still there. Blenheim covered bridge is gone
. Still can't get very far because a lot of the roads are still flooded, blocked with huge piles of stone or literally gone.
We feel very blessed. All of us are alive and we still have our homes. The two lovely hens I got from Annie have given me six eggs. They only missed a day! I named them Annie and Irene. They keep begging to go outside and I spent the last three days working on the run since you don't need power to run a shovel and a hammer. The roof leaked and the ceiling came down in the living room, but the chickens stayed nice and dry in their new coop, so no problem.
Hollie
One huge tree from the opposite bank toppled across and is partially laying in my yard. Darn thing must have been 100 feet tall. We heard clunks and thunks and ripping noises all night long as the trees and big hunks of soil and rock let go. Looks like parts of route 145 just down the hill from us are going to slide into the new canyon sometime soon as the guardrails are already tipping that way and the pavement is cracked.
Middleburgh and Schoharie are devastated and thousands of acres of corn and produce are just gone. Wrecked cars, sheds, houses piled up in strange places. Some of the corn is jammed into the railings of the bridge, lucky it is still there. Blenheim covered bridge is gone
We feel very blessed. All of us are alive and we still have our homes. The two lovely hens I got from Annie have given me six eggs. They only missed a day! I named them Annie and Irene. They keep begging to go outside and I spent the last three days working on the run since you don't need power to run a shovel and a hammer. The roof leaked and the ceiling came down in the living room, but the chickens stayed nice and dry in their new coop, so no problem.
Hollie
