Thanks for the detailed report Rita. Glad to hear your biggest casualty was only a sunflower. Looking forward to when you are back to normal and able to post pics of those daylilies again.
Casey

Thank you for the report, Rita, so pleased that the storm
wasn't as wicked as forecast. Now we can get back to telling each other about our "doings".

Kay (phal)

I cut up the sunflower plant and hauled it away. Saved the seedheads that were ripe and threw them into the shrub border here for the squirrels and birds to eat.

I decided to take a drive around town this afternoon to see what I could see. The power is on here in our section of town known as "The Landing" after the name of the main road down here. But as soon as you make a turn to the section of town with the two supermarkets all the power is off. Really bad news for the supermarkets as that means all the meats and frozen foods have to be tossed. Bad news for all the residents of town too as that means the supermarkets are not open and no one can go buy food. Lots of resturants in that part of town too but all closed.

That's great Rita. I have been worried for you! It could have been as bad as they expected but I'm glad it wasn't. Some states got hit bad, especially with the power and floods.. Ellie

I do feel sorry for all those folks without power or loss their homes due to flooding. How much we depend on our electric and take it for granted.

I was listening to the news this morning and heard how a couple(man and woman) were arrested for going door to door pretending to be some kind of city official trying to find out who was evacuating. I think it was in NY but where exactly I can't recall. It is alleged the couple were planning to come back and rob the homes of the people who said they were evacuating. Good thing neighbors figured out the scam and called the police.

I wonder how Edward made out. Wasn't the storm heading in his direction?

Julia

Doing cleanup is no fun, but thank goodness, it wasn't major damage and your power wasn't lost. Really am happy you were spared a hard hit, and hope there won't be any more of these storms for a long time. Avedon

I am so glad everything turned out well for you,
Rita. It is too bad the sunflower "bought the farm". But it could have been so bad. Luckily you seem to be in a good place. Thanks you for letting us know.
kay

RITA.I am so glad you didnt have any more damage then a broken Sunflower.I been looking at the news, showing all the damage with the floods.Its horrible, and so many homes have water damage.Some are half submerged.A lot of damage in VERMONT, which surprised me.
I dont think you have ever showed us a photo of CHERRY CREAM PIE.bet its a pretty one, It sounds pretty.

Jean

Glad to hear that it's ok there. I hope everyone else in the path fared as well

Julia, That story about the couple was here in NY. I just saw a story about it here on the news. They were arrested, good thing!

I think the storm was more inland of were Edward is. I hope no damage up there.

Thank you everyone. I know that I am very, very lucky and I am very thankful.

Jean, I know I have posted pictures of Cherry Cream Pie before. Maybe I can get some new pictures of the reblooms.

I hope to start back up on normal garden doings tomorrow by going back to the daylily moving projects and work on finishing that up.

I keep trying to see on the news what happened and how bad it turned out to be on those islands off the coast of the Carolinas but have not seen any reports on that. I am worried that they got it really bad there.

So glad you faired so well in the storm after all what would we all do without keeping up with your gorgeous gardens.
Linda

Rita, glad you made it through ok, and that your gardens survived! You're a big source of information on here!

Good to hear all is well! :) Sorry for all those who lost power and worse...:(

I can't tell everyone enough how lucky I am. I found out thru the mayors telephone updates just now that out of the 11,000 people in our town area about 9,000 had lost power. I couldn't write down the numbers fast enough to remember them but the still without power number is very high. We have a large very great Hospital in our town which was in the part of town without power. They only got power back to the hospital and surrounding areas this morning. That length of time for the hospital to not have power restored is unheard of here. Of course it has emergeny generators so patients are never in danger.

Since I am one of the lucky ones, I watch the news and see what is going on in the area. It is unbelievable in NJ. The flooding from the storms most of the rivers have not yet even reached the highest creasting. NJ already looks like a giant lake!

In our county the south shore has many low lying areas that totally flooded from the storm surge. Watching many homeowners that lost all there possessions inside the house like pictures and memories. Then there are the people that have trees down on top of the house. Really, really bad.