At least you're able to drive a car if emergency requires it to pick things up
for people. Glad you're safe.
Andrew Dacey wrote:
> Well I'm just now starting to get back online after being hit by Hurricane
> Juan Sunday night/Monday morning. The hurricane made landfall pretty much
> right on Halifax and there's been quite a bit of destruction. I had
> initially heard that it was a class 1 hurricane (lowest class) but I'm
> hearing that this is being re-evaluated and it may have even been a class 3
> hurricane (sustained winds of 180km/h). My house still has no power or
> telephone (phone line was pulled off the house) and power may not be
> restored until Friday (although I've heard different rumours about this).
> Fortunately, we still have clean running water (but no hot water). The
> community has really pulled together though. I've been pretty fortunate in
> that I do have a barbeque with a fairly full propane tank. We've been using
> that for hot water and cooking and have been sharing that with the
> neighbourhood.
>
> I may have made the CTV national news standing with a reporter next to the
> tree that was uprooted and fell through my neighbour's driveway and into my
> backyard. Obviously I didn't catch the news cast myself.
>
> Living in Nova Scotia, I'm not used to this kind of destructive weather
> (last hurricane this bad was 40 years ago). I haven't seen the downtown
> waterfront area personally but the pictures I've seen have been pretty bad.
> One of the tall ships in the harbour (the Mar II) is completely submerged
> (only the tops of the masts are visible). The public gardens has been
> completely destroyed. Obviously cleanup is going to take a long time.
>
> OM content, I went around my neighbourhood on Monday with my OM-1n with a
> 50/1.4 and 35/2 and shot 2 rolls Tri-X of the damage in my neighbourhood. I
> should have these processed in the next few days and will try to get them up
> online.
>
> Andrew "frugal" Dacey
> frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.tildefrugal.net/
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