Hurricane Irene took its toll in Mountain Lakes. The downside of living in "Tree City" is that sometimes the trees come down. Just about every street in town was affected by the hurricane. The fortunate thing is that through some miracle, the trees all seemed to miss hitting the house or a car.
We were very lucky. even with 10+ inches of rain, we were able to manage the water and never lost power, the Internet or phone service. Most of my neighbors were not so lucky.
Yellow tape is all over the town blocking the streets and navigating through the streets is like running a mouse maze. The town and JCP+L were pretty quick in getting most of the trees off the street, but the power lines are still hanging low or strewn on the streets like spaghetti.
As bad this looks, the house and cars were ok. I will miss this tree that has stood in this spot for 100 years. The sidewalk was built around it.
They say that this was a once in a generation kind of storm, but given how the climate appears to be changing, I highly doubt it.
We were very lucky. even with 10+ inches of rain, we were able to manage the water and never lost power, the Internet or phone service. Most of my neighbors were not so lucky.
Yellow tape is all over the town blocking the streets and navigating through the streets is like running a mouse maze. The town and JCP+L were pretty quick in getting most of the trees off the street, but the power lines are still hanging low or strewn on the streets like spaghetti.
As bad this looks, the house and cars were ok. I will miss this tree that has stood in this spot for 100 years. The sidewalk was built around it.
They say that this was a once in a generation kind of storm, but given how the climate appears to be changing, I highly doubt it.
