Sandy In NH

From WMUR:
"New Hampshire cleaning up after Sandy"

New Hampshire began cleaning up Tuesday from powerful storm Sandy, which killed one man in Lincoln, left hundreds of thousands Granite Staters without power and littered roads with debris. Gov. John Lynch said the first priority for all residents should be safety. Officials said Sandy's intense winds brought down trees, blocking roads and pulling down power lines One death was blamed on the storm. Officials said a man putting in a basement foundation in Lincoln on Tuesday morning was killed when a hillside collapsed, trapping him under a toppled stone wall. The basement was flooded by the heavy rains, and the man was trying to pump out the basement A man was critically injured when a tree fell on a vehicle in Windham. Authorities urged residents to avoid downed lines and assume they were live. Debris should be removed by experts. State officials said there are 32 state roads and about 200 municipal roads closed because of the storm. Most of the closures were related to downed trees and wires. More than 165,000 people in the state were without power, down from a peak of about 211,000 at the height of the storm. Authorities said they expect to have almost all power restored by the end of the week. The most serious outages were in Hillsborough, Rockingham and Strafford counties.

^ We were told to expect strong winds, heavy rain, flooding, power outages and the possibility of snow. Where I live (on a mountain) we got the strong winds - the picture above shows bark ripped off a tree because of the winds - and light rain. The lights flickered off/on for a few minutes, but stayed on the whole night. Our Satelitle Internet went out for literally 3 minutes and then came back on. I did have to pick up some branches around the yard and driveway, but that was all the "damage." The local school closed at noon yesterday and was 2 hours delayed today. There was one road in town that was closed because of a tree that fell. All in all, Sandy very little to my area (which is odd since our power goes out even with less than an inch of rain.) We were completely prepared (generator, gas in the car, food, water, everything put away, etc) as we usually are and I think that is why we got very little. Had we not been prepared I'm sure it would have been worse. Don't think I'm complaining that Sandy was mostly all talk for our area - I'm just mentioning what we were told to expect and what we actually got. ^

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