[Magdalen] East coast storms

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I did not speak for a lot of others in my area. I came to church Sunday
morning. Our rector, Fr. Chuck Kramer, usually starts by saying "Good
morning, and welcome to Saint James on this blustery morning, the third
Sunday in Lent." Then we get into the service.  But this morning, he asked
that everyone pray for those who were SNOWED IN (!!) and could not get to
church, and those who had lost power.
It seems that we had people who got a foot of snow, and someone a fairly
short distance away got nothing. The highly destructive winds knocked down
trees all over the place. Everywhere I went on Sunday and Monday, I saw
multiple utility trucks out trying to get the system together again. We
have folks here from Montreal, God bless them!!
When I saw the devastation in other locations, I'm grateful for our own
good fortune.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 11:47 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hyde Park on the Hudson, NY State:
> We had received emails from our county exec asking us to be aware of the
> hazards of the coming storm, to store water, food, etc.  We have a bath tub
> full of water (awww) and a dozen pepsi bottles full of drinking water. We
> lost power this morning, but amazingly, it came back on after an hour or
> so, went off again a few more times, but only for short periods.
> We could see the trees waving about as much as I have seen. I was hoping
> we didn't get a tree falling on our roof. Having to evacuate our cats would
> be difficult, especially if they had just gotten scared out of their wits
> and hide.
> We saw a small herd of deer running through the woods. We figure they
> probably are spooked by the winds, which are very loud. We've been hearing
> crashes and thumps on our roof, but it is most likely huge clumps of snow
> blown off tree branches and then dropped on our roof. The cats were a
> little frightened at times. The winds were that loud.
> We had a White Xmas, and it's been with us pretty much ever since. It had
> melted off a few days ago, and now we have some more snow. Only about two
> inches. I think, since it feels very, very wet, we probably have been
> getting some rain as well.
> For the last several hours, it's been pretty calm. Every so often, the
> winds will pick up again, but now it's pretty quiet.The storm warning is
> until 3AM, so we'll hope nothing more comes and bangs us up.
> So, we at Hyde Park are doing okay.
> I suspect things are really bad closer to the ocean.
>
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 11:27 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hoping that all our listsibs in the NE being impacted by the incredible
>> winds and weather are safe tonight - I just heard the winds off MA were
>> 91mph.
>> Lynn
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