After Irene...

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So, we were right in Irene's path. That's unusual for this area, since I'm in upstate New York. We normally don't get a hurricane dead on, it usually just fizzles out to a lot of heavy rain, maybe some winds, but nothing worse than a winter storm level of winds. Well, we actually got this one pretty dead on. My immediate area, not too bad, but a nearby township took a direct hit. The entire lower section of the town is in a declared state of emergency, and I'm discovering just how much mud I can actually swim through, LOL.

Anyhoo - if I haven't seemed to be on much or doing much, this is why. Some friends of ours were in the town, and they lost basically everything from the basement up through the first floor to the water from Irene. She caused the river  to flood, and, well... let's just say that Waterford is named Waterford, for a REASON. So I've spent all day today hauling out soaked insulation, mud, debris, saturated wood floorboards, sheetrock, etc. They're staying at my house for the moment until their house is liveable again.

I will say this - if this sort of thing happened in my area, the city would be thumbing it's collective nose at the citizenry, and the neighborhood would pretty much be every man for himself. Watching it happen in this other town though, it reminds me of just why I prefer the smaller towns so much more to the cities. The entire neighborhood was hit - four houses further down and these friends of mine would have lost their entire house. Most of the lower part of the area did lose quite literally everything to the wind and water damage and flooding.

But the entire neighborhood working on cleanup. The town waste removals have been bring in dumpster after dumpster, hauling in Bobcats and bucket loaders, hauling the filled dumpsters out, not charging the residents a penny for it. And the residents themselves pretty much sharing the cleanup all the way around. Food, water, tools, materials, etc... goes all the way around. People working in each other's houses, sharing child care, stuff like this. You don't SEE that in my city, you get a major event like this, and the city charges you premium dollar for the dumpsters, the city dump closes for the holiday weekend no matter what, and people do their own thing and don't give a hoot about their neighbors really.

Sooo... that said. LOL. I still have quite a few images that need posting, I haven't had the time or energy to post them yet. Though I DID manage to get the next pose package posted up over on Content Paradise. It's for M4, kind of meant as a companion set to the V4 one that I posted up last month. So, we'll see how it does. LOL.

I'll be around. I might be scarce, but I haven't gone anywhere... just been REALLY really busy.

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