We Survived

After a couple of harrowing days it looks like NOVA is finally getting back to normal.  Fortunately, it looks like the region was spared the worst of hurricane Sandy.  The County government, local courts, and the Federal government were all shut down on Monday and Tuesday but re-opened Wednesday.  Metro also took the unprecedented measure of completely shutting down Monday before reopening around 2:00 PM Tuesday. 

The damage was light overall, with reports of about 53 downed trees and around 100,000 power outages.  Indeed, this past summer’s Derecho had a far more severe impact on the region when there were close to 500,000 reported outages.  There were also reports of flooding in the Huntington part of Fairfax County and in Alexandria.

Other parts of the country however have not fared so well.  Parts of New Jersey and New York City were completed devastated by the wind and rain that Sandy brought.  Now that the storm has passed through the East Coast, the most persistent problem will undoubtedly be flooding.

We should all give thanks for having been spared the full wrath of this monstrous weather event.