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Hi all, I'm checking in 🙂 Mom, both dogs and I are fine. Had some larger tree limbs come down after dark and power on and off several times during the night, but was working when we got up. Cox cable was out so no internet, tv or telephone until just a little bit ago. Called Cox and apparently a big tree was down in the neighborhood somewhere damaging the lines, but all working now.

Talked to girlfriend this morning, some guys were driving by with chainsaws and got the tree off the house, cut it up and hauled it off to the tune of $300. They'll have to get estimates for the damages to the house but she would prefer not to do an insurance claim because their insurance charges 10% of the value of the house as a deductible. I had never heard of that, but that's what she has. They just got power back but there is something wrong with the well pump. Her husband has been trying to fix/figure out what is going on. Apparently something more than the pump loosing it's prime, but all are safe and that's what matters.

Glad to hear others have checked in. Oh, I wanted to chime in about the reporters -- when we lost power for 4 hours yesterday and I discovered mom had thrown the battery radio away because "we never use it", I sure was missing the up to the minute reports on where the eye was and how long before the strongest winds would get here, as well as the damage reports all around us in the Tidewater and Hampton Roads area as well as Richmond where my daughter and two grandkids live.