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Hurricane Sandy has made landfall on the East Coast and it's colliding with a NorEaster to wreak havoc over 7 states. Most of us are getting heavy gushers of rain, and if you're anywhere near the waterfront then you're experiencing amazing storm surge and crippling flooding. Western Maryland, parts of Virginia and West Virginia are having white out blizzard conditions and at the time of this writing there was already 3 feet of snow in WV.
Last night and this morning in Southern Maryland we had buckets of rain and some high winds. for the last couple of hours we've had a lull in the wind. The worst is supposed to arrive at 2am tomorrow morning. While the wind was down and I didn't have to worry about sideways rain, I went outside to take some video. It's not the best quality since I have my phone shoved in a ziplock baggie and it's also getting speckled by raindrops.- plus I'm tromping around in my rubber boots making it a bit unsteady. But so far, we've not sustained any damage. There hasn't been (knock wood) any trees down in my yard or large branches. We heard some loud cracking and crashing in the neighboring woods, but there isn't anything that will be crushed in those parts of the property.
I'm happy to say that these video's are very boring :) Here's the front yard:
Last night and this morning in Southern Maryland we had buckets of rain and some high winds. for the last couple of hours we've had a lull in the wind. The worst is supposed to arrive at 2am tomorrow morning. While the wind was down and I didn't have to worry about sideways rain, I went outside to take some video. It's not the best quality since I have my phone shoved in a ziplock baggie and it's also getting speckled by raindrops.- plus I'm tromping around in my rubber boots making it a bit unsteady. But so far, we've not sustained any damage. There hasn't been (knock wood) any trees down in my yard or large branches. We heard some loud cracking and crashing in the neighboring woods, but there isn't anything that will be crushed in those parts of the property.
I'm happy to say that these video's are very boring :) Here's the front yard:
Then I went back to the barnyard to take some video of the animals. The waterfowl are acting like it's just any other day (rain? what rain?). They're staying inside the small duckyard and not venturing out into the rest of the barnyard, but otherwise they're acting like it's nothing to worry about. The Muscovy are less thrilled and look a little miserable out there with their necks scrunched down just sitting like a bunch of dummies in the rain. Some of my smarter Muscovy hens are hanging out inside their loft staying dry and, clearly, much warmer.
The chickens are pretty unhappy about the deluge. They're mostly keeping inside the henhouse. A few of the juvenile girls are making runs back in forth from one protected area to another, and a few brave souls are going on with business as normal and looking like a bunch of drowned rats.
Here's the barnyard:
The chickens are pretty unhappy about the deluge. They're mostly keeping inside the henhouse. A few of the juvenile girls are making runs back in forth from one protected area to another, and a few brave souls are going on with business as normal and looking like a bunch of drowned rats.
Here's the barnyard:
AP News Pic
This is why I like to visit the beach but I don't want to live at the beach. This nasty mess is a combination of surf foam and wet sand flying around like cotton candy and coating everything in sight. Gross.
I'll keep you posted as new pictures or video are taken. Like I said, so far we're doing quite well, just a lot wet and without power but I think we're set to deal with that just fine... at least until we run out of beer.
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