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In reply to the discussion: To all under Sandy's threat [View all]

karynnj

(59,474 posts)
9. Just got internet back
Thu Nov 1, 2012, 07:06 PM
Nov 2012

This is the worst storm I have seen in my life.

We picked up our NYC daughter on Sunday. We were in the lucky 8% of people in my town who never lost power and there was no damage to our home. There still are roads closed and a couple in our town died when they were killed when a tree hit their car. Word of that spread quickly through the town - putting all of our minor problems in perspective.

With no cable and no internet, we learned of the NYC problems through messages sent to our daughter and WNYC. (It actually took us a few minutes to realize that we still had radio. As one who listened for hours a day to radio in the 1960s and 1970s it was kind of funny that it was not something I immediately thought to do.

I hope that everyone else here had as minor problems as we did. (Our only problem is that we need to get a GIANT tree removed from the woods behind our hour. Then again - it is very good it fell that way hitting nothing. )

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