Today's Update part 1
As promised, I'll update again tonight. This time I can be more thorough - I'm on a laptop instead of my phone. It got too cold last night, so we bugged out and went south to some relatives to seek refuge with heat and power.
Woke up this morning and decided to try to find somewhere to get the kids a nice hot breakfast. Didn't want to go too far with the gas crunch and all, but...... Talk about fuel shortage?!?! Passed a few gas stations, lines were 300 cars long - like half a mile. Other stations were still closed. People are waiting 3 hours to get capped at $20!!! Saw a Sunoco with a few hundred people standing outside with 5-gal containers. Idiots. See below:
Anyone with a brain would have done what I did 2 days ago. Round up all the gas cans in the neighborhood and drive west. Filled 99 gallons and the neighbors bucked-up to replace the fuel I burned on the 1.5 hr round trip. Pennsy has all the gas you could ever want:
I wish I had someone manning a camera while I was cutting, but everyone was busy freaking out. So I grabbed a couple shots when I could. My next door neighbor had 2 giant white oaks drop on his house Monday night some time between 2000 and 2300 hrs. Here's a shot of it Tuesday morning, notice the tree from the backyard crashed right through the center of the house:
A town DPW worker showed up in a loader the following day, and between my 064 and his bucket, we removed the tree from the house. That trunk took the whole 32" bar like it was Jenna Jameson:
Here's a shot after I cut through another big blowdown a couple houses down from me that was blocking the road and was responsible for ripping down the main power feed line to the neighborhood. That stump had some flyback once I freed it up. The loader moved the rest off to the side of the road. Thinking about somehow milling that clean trunk you can see in the back of the picture.
I have one more picture that won't fit into this post, so I'll push a 2nd one......