Just a Bad Memory

That's what can be said about tropical storm Philippe now according to the National Hurricane Center.

We were out-of-state as noted below. Photos in this post were taken a short time ago from our hotel room with limited views as it was pouring rain with gusting winds.

Thanks to everyone for your comments and concerns on yesterday's post about the storm's anticipated effects here in the northeast. So close to Halloween, this was quite a nasty trick on the 5th anniversary of Superstorm Sandy.

NH state officials reported that the storm produced one of the worst non-winter power outages statewide.
We left NH on Sunday morning for a pre-planned road trip to Killington, VT. While it rained all day, we arrived at our lodging, before the hardest part of the storm. We're at a ski lodge which has low occupancy during this pre-ski season, but it will be fully booked within a few months (and at much higher rates too).

Ironically, 5 years ago when Sandy hit, we left VA  (where we were living at the time) for a trip to White River Junction also in VT. That trip was a day-long adventure as we were caught up in traffic in NJ which was expecting (and later received) the worst from Sandy

Early this morning, outages across the northeast left 44,000 people without power in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, much better than in New England states.

New England was hard-hit with this nor'easter-type storm. States were pounded with rain and gusting winds of up to 65 mph during the height of the Sunday storm. Widespread power outages were reported in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut,  Rhode Island, and Vermont. Trees and wires were down in several states with some flash flooding. Many school districts cancelled Monday classes.

NH state officials reported that the storm produced one of the worst "non-winter" power outages. The Mount Washington Observatory on the summit of Mount Washington, NH, highest peak in the northeast, reported wind gusts of over 130 mph during the height of the storm on Sunday night.

Safe and dry in our VT accommodation, we're staying indoors until later today when (hopefully) the rain and winds will lessen or stop. The lodge has several wood-burning fireplaces which are lit now. 

There's a small movie "theater" in the lodge, but films are pre-selected. So, last night we watched the 1991 film, The Addams Family, on Netflix. It was an appropriate (and fun) film for a stormy night. The 1988 film, Beetlejuice, is another Halloween favorite, but not available on Netflix, so we'll watch our DVD copy later.