We have an hour before it's set to hit here. The wind is up already. I got two big way-carts full of sugar maple leaves deposited in their piles. I didn't need any more on my East border but I hope the remaining leaves will disappear with the storm. Seventeen sugar maples is more than anyone needs! But they're like children: which one would you give up? I planted 3 pots of obedient plant. I don't know why that one has been hard for me to keep. Going out now get the last few blooms and then hunker down. Through Indiana the wind's been fierce but the hard rain seems to blow through in a half-hour or less.

OOPS! I ment to post this on the Upstate NY forum. But for those of you in the Ohio Valley and along Lake Erie. Stay inside stay safe and stay warm. I think Indianapolis got hit pretty hard. Penny

Boy we sure lucked out on this one!! I'm glad :) It was great having that nice burst of warm air so I could finish cleaning off my deck and clean up my front yard. I had such a mess out there. I'm not looking forward to the cold weather but we need so we can start winter sowing!! :)

As far as my immediate location we are all ok. Luckily we never lost power. Although the local news still wants us to live in fear so they are telling us even if we have power now, we still might lose it. My dog proved to be very strong, she was on pins and needles all day yesterday. Only went out once in the early am. Then she asked again about 9pm, got out there did her business and rushed back in, gave me a look that read "ok, I'm good, let's go to bed". She was so exhausted she fell sound asleep. My dh's office was open and he went this am. Regarding that bang, I never found it, but I have a hunch it was the first part of the crash I heard a little later. I had those decorative fireplace screens in my windows in the study (I used to have them in my old dining room), but the windows must have flexed and pushed it off the ledge, pushing over a standing lamp. Yikes. funkyart, why didn't I know we are neighbors? I'm on the West Shore. Got a txt from dd1 last night, she was ok. No power since 4pm. I haven't heard from her this am yet. My dh saw her pop up on Facebook, so we know she is ok. It is so hard to imagine the flooding in NYC that they are showing on TV. And the shore seems to have been devastated. Stay safe everyone. Bee