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We appear to have lucked out in area south of Richmond but eastern Va. has widespread damages and flooding. Western Va. is susposed to get up to 2 ft. of snow. All of this happened with the eye a long way from here. We need to pray for everyone that is in this storm as this is going to be one of the worst storm of our lives.

It's heartwarming to have nobody cheering for this one.

kenc-- that is good news.

the weather here is still pretty bad. no phone. no dsl. our at&t cell phones seem to be without service. my kindle is my connection to the outside world. somehow we still have power. it just keeps hammering us with extremely heavy rain and unrelenting high winds at 60-70 mph.

Spoke to Wom back home. Power was out for a few hours in Murrysville, PA., about 15 miles east of Pittsburgh.

Heavy rains and heavy winds. Power back on now.

Very cool here in Orlando....like low 50's.

Neat Pic, I assume it is real...
Hope everyone is OK!

And another from the tomb of unknown soldier.

Actually, both pictures I've read are fabricated. Or, the first is photoshopped anyway. The storm was actually Nebraska. The tomb of the unknown soldier photo was taken in September, although there are photos out there of the soldiers still standing guard which are very cool.

We made it without serious issues. The main pond is up about four feet, with about 18 inches in the emergency overflow. A few big trees are down.

About 30 to 40 miles west of here they are still in blizzard conditions with 18 to 24 inches of snow.

Good news!

My heart goes out to all of you that have suffered from the storm.

At least here just south of Washington, DC the storm was for the most part a big dud.

That is a good thing.

As of this morning my sister still has power on the upper east side of Manhatten.

It sounds like the storm didn't disappoint in NJ and Lower NYC. But that's great news Shorty.

Yep it looks like it is not good in some places.

NEW YORK: A dam in the state of New Jersey has just broken through, CNN reported on Tuesday.

According to reports, authorities are conducting rescues from homes in three New Jersey towns after a dam break.

According to New Jersey Office of Emergency Management Sgt. Adam Grossman, the break occurred after midnight in the town of Moonachie in Bergen County.

Rescue teams are underway in Moonachie, Little Ferry, and Carlstadt.

Bergen County Police Chief of Staff Jeanne Baratta says thousands of people may need to be rescued.

Seems like the north and east sides of the storm was for more damaging than the south and west sides of the storm.

Like everyone else on the planet, I'm powerless to do anything to prevent a hurricane from forming, and I'm unable to alter its progress, or decide where it makes landfall.... I can't slow the windspeed, or reduce the torrential rainfall amounts. All I can do is watch the news, hope for the best, and pray for it to be over soon.

Am I cheering for this hurricane? Of course not. I'm horrified by the images of destruction, and saddened by the loss of life. However, that doesn't change the fact that there is nothing I can do to prevent, or lessen the storm's fury. What has already happened, has happened. And what is yet to happen, will happen. I have no say in the matter. I pray for the best in every situation like this, but all I can do is try and plan for the worst.

So if the remnants of Hurricane Sandy should make their way to Indiana, bringing some rain, wind, and even some storms with them, then I would consider that a good thing. We still need more water.

It doesn't mean that I'm happy a hurricane devastated such a large region. It just means that there's nothing I can do to change that scenario. All I can do is look and see if hurricane clouds have a tint of silver lining.

we're sitting on almost 20 inches of snow. But thank goodness we have electricity. I hadn't heard too many people complain at all about the snow. Seems the wrong thing to do when so many others are in terrible conditions.
It's SOOOO cold!

Wow! I wonder if Ken got any snow...

Hope that fast water temp change does not impact the fish !

There's also a possibility of PH shock if the ponds in the area are not buffered well or the PH is already on the acidic side. I know this happens in some areas of the east.

Thankfully, we didn't get any snow. But, people like Stacy are in miserable conditions. Roads are still closed. Massive power outages -- and cold for this time of year.

I don't know how long this link will stay active, but it shows who got hit with snow. WV Snow Cover

The area between Elkins and Beckley WV is just plain buried. I believe Stacy is due south of Beckley, right on the VA/WV border. Roof collapses have been an issue in the heavy snow area because the snow was so incredibly wet and heavy. Wyoming County, WV, just west of Stacy's location, is over 90% without power. They were a few degrees colder than us. I think we went down to 29 degrees overnight.

I'm due west of Winchester, VA, just over the WV/VA border. We some how got by with minimal damage. My main pond is now below the emergency spillway, but the top of the standpipe is still at least a foot below the water level.

Here are just a few photos from what we saw. Interestingly, when we when out this morning, there was snow on the mountain tops within about five miles of, but none here.

This picture was taken after the water was almost down by a foot from its high. When the water got really high, it floated a lot of debris from the woods that clogged, and really slowed the emergency overflow. So, this was after the emergency overflow was re-cleared. Yesterday Morning:



This morning, with the water down to at about 4-inches above the top of the standpipe.



When the water came up, it grabbed a lot of debris from places like this:


This is what it looked like this morning. My emergency overflow is in the lower left of the photo.


This photo was taken from about the same place as the two above, but looking the opposite way. The three photos after that are about 150 feet to the other end of where the emergency spillway flows into the woods behind the dam. The spillway is about three foot wide, and there was more than 18 inches of water in it when I took these photos.









This is a the very bottom of the dam where the water comes out via the standpipe in pond.

I'm glad that you were able to clear the debris and didn't have sesrious damage or wash-outs.

Ken, in looking at that snowfall map, am I reading it right in seeing areas that have 40" of snow?

Cat, I really like the setting you have there.

Watching the news last night, it was hard to believe all of the damage that some areas had. It is hard to prepare for such a storm, even with advance notice. Hope all are safe and gaining ground on the recovery.