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**WaltzingMatilda**

Are you guys doing ok after Irene?  I saw on FB about your car, but hopefully that was it for damage for you guys, hope your doing ok!
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  • Yeah, here's the full story:  So, we barely survived the hurricane Saturday and I'm not a happy camper. A tree branch fell on my 4 month old car, took off the side mirror, broke the windshield and caused a lot of dents in the roof and side trim pieces. The adjuster is coming to look at it today or tomorrow to do an estimate. 
    Then on top of that we had quite an experience with the power. We could hear transformer boxes blowing up all over the neighborhood, but nothing beats when ours finally went. We heard what sounded like firecrackers going off and the power keep dimming with every pop. So we ran to look at the box and it was shooting off sparks. It finally blew and then everything was smoking. Then 3 of lines caught fire and set a nieghbor's yard on fire. Luckily it was pouring down rain and was put out almost immediately. But the short story is we aren't expected to get power back for at least a week. On the bright side we have a a gas hot water heater so I at least don't have to take cold showers. 
    And there's apparently a million people in central Virginia without power right now and it looks like we took a direct hit. There are trees down everywhere and some are actually dangling from power lines.  We seriously got it way worse than our families who were much closer to the eye of the storm. We drove around a little yesterday and it looks bad out there. It's going to be a while before things are back to normal here. 
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  • Aw Liz, that's so scary!  Sorry you were hit so hard!  I guess I'd rather live without power than hot water, so at least you have that!!!  I hope things return to normal soon for you...that's awful. 

    We definitely had a long, scary night (well, not hubby, just me.  I was terrified) but we are fine, Thank GOD!.  No damage in our neighborhood and we never lost power.  Even though, I couldn't relax all weekend.  I was just so afraid that the big trees behind our house would come crashing down.  And the sun is shining today.  What a tease.  Thanks for ruining everyone's weekend, Irene.

     

     

  • Yikes Liz.  I'm glad you are okay.  Hopefully power is restored sooner than they think!
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  • Wow, that is so scary! I hope they get the power back to you sooner and I'm so glad you are ok!
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  • wow that is crazy! hopefully you'll get power back soon and thank goodness no one was hurt!
  • Talk about scary!  Glad to hear that you and DH are both OK.  Hopefully your power will come back on sooner than expected.
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  • yowza - good luck!  that's crazy!

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  • Eek!  What a weekend!  I am glad that you guys are okay!
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  • Yeah, so sorry you guys had to go through that. It seems like Virginia has had more than it's share of "weather" and natural phenomenon these past couple of weeks. Sending you "its gonna be ok" vibes!!! Because it will :-)
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  • I'm glad to hear you guys are ok! I'm sorry to hear about your car and that sucks about the power, hopefully they give a longer than expected estimate so you'll be pleasantly surprised when it comes back sooner! 

    Do you have a gas stove since your water heater is gas?  

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  • No, we don't have a gas stove. I wish we did! But we do have a camp stove and 2 propane tanks, so I had canned ravioli heated up on the camp stove last night. It was quite the gourmet meal ;)
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