I've never seen a storm like this here (maybe the microburst 10+ years ago). Torrential rain, hail the size of marbles, but the wind was something else - because JL's upper level sits at the top of the hill, we seem to get a ramped-up version of the wind. A big tree fell in front of the "farmhouse" across the grass from my condo but its largest limb fell to the left of their car and its main trunk fell to the right of the car and the car was enveloped in branches and leaves. They moved the car today and it had some scratches and a small dent but that was it. We also had another tree pulled out of the ground about 50 feet away and one down at the lower level and limbs here and there. Heard that the Neck Road was tied up for hours as a tree had gone down across it - last night heard there was a 62 car backup, then heard later that traffic was tied up all the way to Meredith. Also heard that for the people marooned in back of the tree that people in golf carts and cars rode down to give people (strangers) rides - isn't it great when people pull together in adversity. Jojo's Store said they got power back at 10 but up at JL, we didn't get it back until 4 am (11 hours outage). Union Leader reported Moultonborough was hardest hit. I will never forget two very very violent wind gusts in that storm - I really thought the roof was coming off. Somebody said that they thought the wind reached 75 mph on the island. Well, we got through it but Mother Nature does humble us at times, doesn't she!!!!
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