Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments Well, we still have half of my neighbors tree sitting precariously up against my 100 yr. maple in my front yard, the other half is laying in the street waiting for the town’s DPW to come by after this weekends big storm, looks like it’s going to be a long time before they get to it. In all my time living here, through all the hurricanes and Nor Easters, I have never seen sustained winds this high and this length of time, it started blowing at 11 am Sat to 1 am Sunday morning. Nor have I ever seen this much damage to trees and homes. It looks like a battle zone here, there is not house/building that doesn’t have some kind of damage. As I reported Saturday night, my neighbors 60 ft. tree came down, as it fell it ripped the power line that goes from our house to the poll and hit part of the roof of our front porch, minor damage to that. What a noise, you could hear the creaking and cracking before the actually fall, with such a loud thud that it shook the house. The power line was still connected to the house, but half of it was laying on the ground, the other half connected to the pole. We were lucky, we still had power, unlike 55,000 that didn’t at the height of the storm. In our section of the town, we have a small taxpayer owned power company, so the guys were out to re-attach the line to the house at 6 am Sunday morning. Hubby gave the guys some coffee after they finished, they had been up all night trying to keep up with all the damage and lines down. They told us that at one point during the storm, around 6 pm Sat. night, all utility workers and first responders were called in to wait it out because it was so dangerous. A tree had come down on a fire truck in the next town over and another tree coming down took off the bucket from a utility vehicle, thank God no one was in the bucket at the time. The wind was clocked by my husband, gusting at 60 MPH, sustained winds at 40 MPH. Around 1 am Sunday, everything dyed down and the crews, police and fire were able to go back out. Here are some pictures of the damage, number 6, the big pine resting up against the power lines is right around the corner from our house, the tree was still there yesterday afternoon, waiting to be removed. http://www.ctpost.com/traffic/slideshow/Storm-damage-469.php Story of storm from local paper “The Hour”, which we call “the minute” because it takes only a minute to read it! 🙂 http://www.thehour.com/story/483574 » Posted By BigDogMom On March 15, 2010 @ 8:27 am Going to post an update on the storm this weekend…see above. » Posted By BigDogMom On March 15, 2010 @ 7:38 am Morning BT and javaz, looks like the Catholic Church/Vatican are going to have to sell some of that land they own to cover these lawsuits…several diocese here in New England had to that, here in CT, the Bridgeport diocese is just about bankrupt. The abuse of any child should not go unpunished…and in my opinion, the guy at the top, the pope, of this organization is ultimately responsible. javaz, saw “The Magdalene Sisters”, wonderful movie, honest account on some of the abuse that was going on in the church in the ’50’s-’60’s, but which I’m sure goes back to the beginning of start of the church. » Posted By BigDogMom On March 15, 2010 @ 7:25 am Hurricane level winds here in CT, NY, NJ and PA…blowing sustained winds at 60 MPH….Major leader from neighbor’s tree just hit a portion of the front of our house, (the porch, not too bad, but hit my beloved 100 yr old tree. Just about split it in two, electric line torn from house, hanging on by a thread still attached to pole….haven’t seen wind like this since the “perfect storm”…oh well, at least the tree guys will get some work out this! » Posted By BigDogMom On March 13, 2010 @ 6:49 pm Hey boom, is see we are swimming in a sea of Siamese cats! The HP Extended home was set up early on here at the Planet by nicole before OT and for those who needed to vent on things going on at HP. Here is the link for us… http://huffpostextended.proboards.com/index.cgi » Posted By BigDogMom On March 12, 2010 @ 9:17 am Morning javaz, we are doing well, hubby seems to be feeling better, getting more sleep than before. Hope all is well with your and your husband. Whoever this person is, they must of felt slighted in some way by HuffPo and the various “left wing commie posters” such KQ, Keven and others. Seems to me that this person has some OCD/Paranoia issues… Wonder if this troll lurks around here at the Planet? Just stopped to see what was new here, I have to take one of the pups to the Vet, he has a goopy eye, probably from running through the brambles. Be back later… » Posted By BigDogMom On March 12, 2010 @ 5:56 am Khirad, whoever this poster is, they have way too much time on their hands….. » Posted By BigDogMom On March 12, 2010 @ 5:22 am And here I thought I saw everything when mightywoof posted the site for animals rapture…. » Posted By BigDogMom On March 11, 2010 @ 12:16 pm Morning javaz, do you think Sheriff Joe will ever resign over this ongoing controversy? Or is his ego too big for him to ever realize how wrong his methods are? » Posted By BigDogMom On March 9, 2010 @ 6:19 am Well kids, time for bed, take care all….. 🙂 » Posted By BigDogMom On March 8, 2010 @ 7:18 pm bito/kes, I wonder if there is a charity out there that would perform these much needed duties and help pay some bills? Something to look into. I know when my mother was battling cancer, our church, United Church of Christ, did a lot for my family. They would help out by taking her to her chemo, once a week someone would drop off dinner or just come over and sit with my mom…to me that’s what “real Christians” do, but we won’t go there now. » Posted By BigDogMom On March 8, 2010 @ 7:13 pm That was great! I can’t even teach my dogs to stay off the couch, let alone do deep knee bends… 😆 » Posted By BigDogMom On March 8, 2010 @ 6:21 pm Here’s their breakdown, over 80% of income goes to programs, would love to know what programs, because I have yet to hear of any one directly benefiting from this foundation, unless it goes to research… http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4509 » Posted By BigDogMom On March 8, 2010 @ 6:17 pm Feel free to rant, don’t you know it’s the in charity now. They lost my support and money when I found out what Lieberman’s wife was getting paid to speak….would love to know how much they spend in overhead and what actually goes to research and families. » Posted By BigDogMom On March 8, 2010 @ 6:08 pm OH MY GOD!!!! ROFL!!! The outfits!! Love the dance steps!!! Still laughing…. 😆 ….choking actually…{{gasp}}….Oh My God!! » Posted By BigDogMom On March 8, 2010 @ 5:59 pm Stop please!!!! ROFL!!!! 😆 😆 » Posted By BigDogMom On March 8, 2010 @ 5:52 pm Himself is watching the UConn game right now, I’m going to show it to him in the morning! Still laughing, can’t believe he sang and sauntered for 2 min. 41 sec.!!!! Just grooving away!!!! Tears are coming down my cheeks right now…. 😆 » Posted By BigDogMom On March 8, 2010 @ 5:49 pm Time for a zilly dogz video……. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4C3dqpUe7s Sorry guys, still laughing at the LA, LA guy video that Cher posted…boy did I ever need this laugh tonight! » Posted By BigDogMom On March 8, 2010 @ 5:45 pm kes, not for nothing, but this guy really thinks he’s hot!!! 😈 I sent it to my sisters, they will get a hoot out of this! Still can’t stop laughing!!!! » Posted By BigDogMom On March 8, 2010 @ 5:31 pm Cher, Oh my God, I just about peed my pants with this one!!!!! » Posted By BigDogMom On March 8, 2010 @ 5:13 pm Cher…ROFL!!!! 😆 » Posted By BigDogMom On March 8, 2010 @ 3:36 pm Hey all, have a good evening wish I could sit in on this discussion longer, supper’s ready, time for me to get going, will lurk later to see the outcome…. 🙂 » Posted By BigDogMom On March 6, 2010 @ 4:34 pm @e’cat – The T-Bags seem to be intimidated by anyone who is educated, and the GOP uses that fear by calling those who are, and even those who aren’t formally educated but just don’t agree with them, as “Elitist”…I know that my hubbies family is exteamly intmidated by my family, at gatherings they huddle together no matter how much you try to engage them. » Posted By BigDogMom On March 6, 2010 @ 4:28 pm The funny thing my Mother called the wild child’s mother, my youngest sister, the same thing, “like Mother like daughter” in this case! My Mother was a teacher, so I think it is wonderful that one of her grandchildren is following in her footsteps. » Posted By BigDogMom On March 6, 2010 @ 4:21 pm Hey all – Cher thanks for the link, I am going to forward this story to my Niece who was accepted this fall into the Master’s in Teaching Intern Program and is student teaching at an inner city elementary school. I am hoping that she may be one of “the natural teachers” this article talked about. After watching her tame her 5 yr. old cousin one day, (referred to in the family as “Sarah Bernhardt” for her drama), and kept the wild child’s attention focused for several hours, (teaching her how to write and spell various words), I think she might be one of the “good ones”, let’s hope so! » Posted By BigDogMom On March 6, 2010 @ 4:14 pm See if this helps… http://www.votervoice.net/Core.aspx?AID=470&APP=GAC&screen=Address& » Posted By BigDogMom On March 4, 2010 @ 12:47 pm javaz, the Corporations want to keep the status quo, Republicans in power means no or little regulation that hurts bottom line. The MSM, Corporations themselves, are all to willing to comply with this. Remember, all the the big mucky mucks who run these Corporations all sit on each others board, so basically it’s just one big monopoly….I hate to say this, but sometimes I think that the best thing for this Country was to have let the whole system crash, so that this type of Corporatism would have been exposed. Then maybe we could have started over on an even playing field. Well I’m off now for my afternoon Big Dog walk, thanks for listening to me today javaz…take care. » Posted By BigDogMom On March 4, 2010 @ 12:44 pm Like a shadow government…. » Posted By BigDogMom On March 4, 2010 @ 12:36 pm Did you put your address in so that you could see the closest bible thumping church in your area and who’s connected to it? Or would that be a lost cause, because it seems your entire State House is being run by these religious nuts. javaz, I feel for you and bito, must feel like you are living on some alien planet at times… I truly believe that these type of religious groups who are getting more and more involved in the running of people’s lives via legislation is what is going to do them in eventually….let’s hope it’s sooner than later. » Posted By BigDogMom On March 4, 2010 @ 12:34 pm Sue, these groups just scare the chit out of me….does anyone know the numbers are on how many followers there are in groups like these? Just curious…. » Posted By BigDogMom On March 4, 2010 @ 12:26 pmComments Posted By BigDogMom
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