Unfortunately many families in our town have had to be evacuated. But at least the "powers that be" have allowed people to leave with their pets. I gave one guy the spare water bowls I carry in my SUV for his dogs. These families were probably evacuated so fast they didn't have time to take "go Packs".

I think that if people had not been as prepared for this storm...evacuated many of the lower water areas etc etc, we would have seen many more deaths, injuries, etc etc then we have.

Some areas have been devistated with houses calapsing,houses condemded due to structural damage from the waters, people shoveling sand out of their front doors, rivers for streets & many that will be homeless for extended periods of time. It has been stated on the news that out of the multiple million $$$s of damages...only approximately $80 million will be conered by insurance. So this 'little' storm will cost many people their life savings to recover from.

It has also been stated that this storm caused the highest percentage of power outages EVER on the east coast from one storm! Most of the towns in just So West CT, alone, have had outages of 45% to 80% of the homes without power. With at least a week or more before many will have power restored.

That quite alot of damage for one 'storm'. IMO

No power, no phones, no internet; smart phone has two bars as we speak and I am very appreciative of that fact. We have everything from no damage to complete devestation via trees falling on roofs and through houses.... one killed an 11 year old boy. We expect to be without power for a week, maybe longer, but are grateful for mild temps and a generator which is only acting moody off and on throughout the day. All chickens present and accounted for, and fortunately, all horses at Dream Catchers did fine as well. I have learned that Falcon will gladly hold contents of his bowels and bladder for way too many hours vs having to go outside during a hurricane. Our property looks a botanical war zone but no structural damage so we are very fortunate.

Our updated damage tally is still relativly low the driveway/dirt road to the house is destroyed so we have to park a little way down at the bottom. It will be a very costly fix. Took me over 30 minutes to convince my car to get out of the driveway today. We constructed a sort of makeshift plywood bridge across the 4 ft wide canyon blocking us from the road, unfortunately my car's fat butt still managed to fall in (broke the bridge).

We've been warned tommorrow though that the water in Vermont will be visiting us via the Connecticut River, we've been told to keep an eye on the river at the bottom of our driveway and to beware of roads underwater. As of an hour ago the smaller river down there has gotten quite high and VERY fast...Our cars have been moved as far up the not-driveway as we can get.

My parents in RI have reported trees down everwhere, their neighbor's huuuuuuge oak dropped a tree sized branch on the fence between properties and took the gutters off of their garage, the entirety of the fence out and crushed two small sheds into the ground. Missed their neighbor's house by about 6 inches. Their house lost shutters. The school across the street from them front doors got shattered by a flying tree but is otherwise okay. Few other of my RI friends report trees down on everything, no power, etc. A friend of mine in North Kingstown has a few feet of water in her basement, no word if my mother's godmother's beach house still exists...

We still have power, when it comes time for me to buy a house...I'm only looking at property with underground power lines because this is sort of nice.....the lines don't go above ground until you get out to the main road where they're far enough away from the trees they don't get fallen on....we have rolling brownouts and power surges but that is IT!

Dogs here LOVED the storm. My housemate's dog who normally doesn't even like wet grass loved that he could swim on the lawn, Ryuk is still enjoying the bubbling brook that moved in behind us.

Barb..glad that you guys are all ok the house is without damage. You all really got slammed down there.

We got lots of wind and rain, amazingly the flooding wasn't real bad but there were trees uprooted in my neighborhood which surprised me...healthy trees but with branched and foliage for wind to snag I guess. We lost power for a few days, actually right when I was posting here, I hit send and sudden darkness. Go figure.

It was more like a cat 1 borderline tropical storm when it got here...not quite as bad as Isabel.

I went out for a walk to get my dutchie too use the bathroom a few times and that rain hurt. He just walked around like a stalking coyote behind me with his ears down and eyes squinted. Sometimes he would look at me and bark like "WTF is going on?" He wanted to play (typical) yet when I got home he dove into his warm dry crate. Oh and the field I use for much of his training was a 4 ft deep lake.