We have very luckily survived hurricane Sandy unscathed. The biggest gift for us was that there wasn’t much rain. The storm swells reached about 1 block away from us on one side. The neighborhoods to the north and south of us were under up to 4 ft of water.
A tree cracked in half across the street from our building, blocking the door, and my husband was able to clear their doorway with his chainsaw. Our neighbors can’t believe he has a chainsaw in the middle of NYC, but he’s used it twice in the last couple of months.
And our chickens went to bed in their insulated coop the night of the storm and woke after the worst of it passed. They didn’t even know what hit us!
I feel very fortunate. The footage of the devastation surrounding us is daunting. The subways are down indefinitely, which is crippling the city.
Glad to hear from you. Some parts of the city took a real beating. You were lucky.
We did ok too considering what passed over us.