Quakertown, PA
Trees Down Like This All Over PA
Hurricane Sandy came
to visit us in Quakertown this week.
Overnight Sunday night and through Monday morning the winds built to the
point that our power went off at the hotel.
Everything was cool
for the first few hours….the emergency lights came on (except for in the
stairwells, which were pitch black, that we had to use since the elevators run
on electricity), and we still had hot water.
Everything was cool Tuesday when we got up with still no power….we still
had hot water. No internet. No TV.
No food. But, we had hot water
for a shower. Still not too bad…..until
Wednesday morning, when I got up again with no power, no internet, no TV, no
food, and NO HOT WATER!!!!!
We had been traveling
for an hour and a half or so all the way up to Scranton on all previous days to
eat and go to movies since we had NOTHING to do at our hotel. But, when we lost the hot water on Wednesday
morning it became serious. Cold showers
are not form me. I hate being cold….its
bad enough to be in PA in the wintertime, but to be without water for a shower
just won’t work. Friday morning, 4 full
days after the power went off it finally came back on.
I should not
complain….the storm soaked PA and its suburbs Monday and Monday night causing
widespread flooding and the winds caused substantial damage throughout the
area. Most major interstates reopened Tuesday morning although many of the
other highways and most side roads were closed due to trees being down
everywhere.
The severity of the
storm in Pennsylvania expressed itself during the day Monday through a set of
increasingly worrisome numbers, from the thousands of people who fled their
homes in the southeastern part of the state to the power outages affecting several
million people by early Tuesday. At
least four deaths were attributed to the storm.
Other than the slight
inconvenience of having to travel so far to eat, and not having hot water, the
worst thing about Hurricane Sandy for us was making the mistake of going to the
movie “Seven Psychopaths”. This was,
truthfully, the WORST movie I ever
saw. Worse than “Cast Away” with Tom
Hanks. Worse than “The Garbage Pail Kids Movie”
in 1987. The. Worst. Movie.
Ever.
So, if you haven’t
already wasted your money….DON’T GO.
Time to go take a hot
shower.
Be careful out there……there’s
a lot of stupid people.
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