It's been all over the news, so it's not news anymore. New Hampshire and Massachusetts was battered recently, resulting in trees falling everywhere; on wires, houses, cars, blocking roads, ROOFS on cars, siding peeling off like it was paper, flooding rivers, and widespread power outages for multiple days. We're on the recovery side of it now, and everyone has a story to share, but the overall attitude is "it could have been worse". I'm proud of all of us. We bore the inconveniences with Yankee attitude, ingenuity and sense of humor. We fired up our wood stoves and generators (many purchased after the ice storm that kept us in the dark for weeks in the not so far gone past!). Neighbors helped neighbors. We didn't gnash our teeth and cry foul... we settled in, slowed down, and waited.Our property is full of those tall pine trees that crashed down all over New England, but ours thankfully kept their roots solidly in the soil. They threw an unbelievable amount of pine cones at us though! The wind that night was truly scary. Our only casualty, aside from electricity, was one of the barn doors, and we are pretty sure we can fix it. I actually led a client into my Studio by flashlight to bring them to the photo set area where we accomplished their photo session by generator supplied power! It was an adventure for both myself, and the client!
The photo here is of a road in my town, Merrimack NH, ironically named "Wire Road". Four telephone poles went down in this area, along with many pine trees, pulling the wires right down to the road. It was literally WIRE ROAD!
Kudos to the workers that got us all up and back to our hectic, Internet-focused, electronically run lives. There is still a small percent without, but I understand they don't have long to wait. In the interum, I'm sure someone has provided them the use of heat, shower and laundry, because THAT is the way we do things here.
