OT: Positive Thoughts and Prayers For Our East Coast Members

[voice of the theater]

Here, in Rochester New York's suburbs, we were "blown away" by the impact of this storm. We had winds/gusts in excess of 60 mph coming off of Lake Ontario--mixed with torrential downpour it made for a lot of damage in certain areas nearest the lake. People near the lake (especially in low lying areas) were told to evacuate (and many did) due to rising lake levels. I had several friends who had substantial damage to their houses but thankfully other than a couple of huge tree limbs falling in my yard (which both missed my house and cars), my family/home was unscathed. Power was out two blocks from me in one direction, and a half mile away from me in another direction, but we were lucky enough to not lose power here. The city itself was spared much of the damage--it was really bad for those in the suburbs near Lake Ontario. There was a constant loud roar of those high winds here for hours on end as it poured hard and I had a couple of friends (in houses right on the Lake) who's houses shook for hours--both of which lost part of their roof! One of them also had their shed (with lawn mower etc. inside) blow away to God knows where. I hope John and our other members who were even closer to the east coast are faring well in the aftermath.....