Good luck to all of you in the path of the hurricane.
I hope you and your loved ones all remain safe, and your houses intact.
Best of luck everybody.
:) Trish (who, having suffered 170km winds can feel for you right now)
Ordinarily, I don't ring in with "me, too" posts, but in this case I will.
Madly praying for the entire Eastern Seaboard, Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati
Thanks, Trish, Karen and Emily! Good thoughts and prayers always welcome. We're just getting the leading edge of the wind and rain here in the beach. I'm fretting about two things: the big old pine tree in my neighbor's yard--I'd go back to bed, I am so tired from all of the prep work, but my bed is in a direct line of the pine tree, should it fall through the roof. The other worry is my sewing room window, which overlooks my 'Precious' stash--due to the ledges, we couldn't board it. I think I'll trot back there and nail a board over the inside, just in case. I hung a heavy drape inside the casement, and taped the frame, but that's all purely cosmetic when it comes to wind. We've had two power glitches already. As long as we don't take on water, we'll be ok. Have a water supply, lanterns, generator, saws, a camp stove, fuels, some firewood stashed in the shed, along with everything else from the yard. H is hoping it will blow away altogether. He's not one for cherishing his possessions. You'd think we were backwoodsmen, with all of the survival stuff we've accumulated. WOW! Just heard a transformer on the street behind us blow. It's really not that bad here yet--must be a falling tree limb which made it blow. (Your on-the-site reporter.) Hey! I'm set--I've got coffee made up, and I can drink it cold, if need be. Coffee, yogurt with grape nuts stirred in, homemade bread with pear honey, a new Hancock catalog to peruse, and dry feet--what more could a person want? Check in with you all later, if we don't lose power. Cea
Hang in there, Cea! Keep us posted as your are able. Do you have a treadle machine, or will you have to do hand work if the power goes out? Hoping the best for you.
Donna G. Michigan's Upper Peninsula
We used to put tape on the glass. Masking tape, wide, in big "X" shapes - the idea being that if the glass breaks, it doesn't fly all over the place. The tape holds just enough so that it drops inside. Don't forget to keep a leeward window open a crack to equalize the pressure - keep the windows from blowing out!
We'll all be keeping a good thought for you. Them as prays can do that. ;-)
Actually, according to the experts they had on the tv today, doing that in the cities (especially in the high-rises) can be a 'very bad thing'. If two places have their windows open, and both their doors are opened at the same time, enough wind can develop and roar through top pop one of them outwards with the pressure.
Don't understand quite how the acceleration happens, but considering the "normal" winds in DC, especially during the winter, I'm more than willing to believe it may be true.
-Liz (who is happy that she's liv> We used to put tape on the glass. Masking tape, wide, in big "X" shapes
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