Wish us luck here on the East Coast with the storm!

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Still waiting to hear when we will actually be able to get back onto Long Beach Island to assess the actual damage to our shore house. We know at least that it is still standing since we saw it last night on a local newscopter flyover. We have heard that there was five feet of water on our street, which means the entire first floor of our house (including a brand new kitchen ) is toast. The picture below is from high tide Monday morning before the storm rolled in.

The picture after that is part of our adventure at our regular home. A 60 foot pine just snapped in the wind like a matchstick. Fortunately, it couldn't have fallen at a better angle if a tree surgeon did it. No damage to fence or house. Still without power/cable/Internet. We have a generator, but gas is getting very hard to come by.