Well last night was had some pretty severe thunderstorms. The kind where there's cloud to ground lightening every 5-10 seconds! It was pretty awesome. We started watching from the porch, but it was getting kinda scary so we went inside. It continued for a few hours - sheets of rain. The fire whistle went off a few times and we prayed that it wasn't anyones' house. Trees had fallen blocking the roads, but other than that, it would appear that everything was okay.
So that brings me to another benefit to living in the Northeast - especially the North Country. There are very few natural disasters that occur here. We've had a few minor earth tremors, we get the side effects of a hurricane on occasion, our rainfall is such that we don't have major forest fires, and very rarely will we even be put under a tornado watch let alone warning. The major weather issues that we have are below 0 temperatures and about 10 years ago we had a crippling ice storm. However, these are all adversities that you can prepare for. You can buy a generator and keep enough gas on hand in case of a power outage. You can stock enough canned goods to keep you eating for a few days or weeks as the case might be. You can make sure that you have enough supplies and such to stay warm during those days/nights without power. Or you can go to the shelter when the need arises. During the ice storm, they made one of the colleges here a shelter. People had to be there for a week or more due to power outages. There were some folks that lost their power for 6 weeks.
So while Fall is moving in and summer is on the wane- I don't want to think about the long winter, but my husband already has the wood stacked, waiting to be moved into the garage. And the gardens are starting to be overproductive with tomatoes and squash. And it was in the low 50's this morning and only hit 63 this afternoon. So I know it's coming. We'll be ready!
Hope you have a great day,
Lori
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