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From: "Kathleen Bowen" <>
Subject: Re: [MDSTMARY-L] Weather conditions
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:11:18 -0400
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Oh Maryland, My Maryland....

My sister and her family are near Annapolis and my daughter and grandson are in Gambrills, (also Anne Arundel Co.) My sister is about 1/4 mile from the Severn, not too far from where it meets the Bay. The water stopped about 50' form her house (whew!). My daughter has no flooding but lots of small branches and stuff down and some neighbors lost trees. Neither have power. Pics of Annapolis docks and Inner Harbor/Fells Point in Balt. city made me cry (some of my old 'stomping ground' ground from when I lived in A.A. Co. for 20+ years); I have friends that had to leave their homes late Thursday night near Arlington, VA due to flooding. Haven't heard anything about Georgetown yet. It could have been much worse. It is bad enough that 17 deaths have been attributed to Isabel so far.

Kathleen Bowen


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----- Original Message -----
From: David Roberts
To:
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [MDSTMARY-L] Weather conditions


I don't know when things get posted on STMARY-L; I went two messages about
"Albion's Seed" on Wednesday; found one this morning; not the other.
Hopefully, this will get thru.'

I live in Hollywood; in the very center of St. Mary's County, really. I'm on
high ground, far from the storm surges that can & do hit the shoreline.

The storm was pretty bad, but it was not "devestation" or the hype the TV &
the media was playing up, esp. beforehand.
Luckily, we got VERY little rain. Normally, we get lots of rain with these
storms. I got up everything I could off the basement floor. Not a drop of
water came in ... so we were very lucky, since massive rain is normally the
worst part of hurricanes.
The storm started about 11:00 on Thursday morning ... light wind & wind
gusts. By late afternoon, the wind was gusting pretty good, but the rain was
pretty light for a storm of this size. We lost power about 7:00 p. m. on
Thursday night. By that time the rain was still light, but the wind was
fierce. About 10:00 p. m. CRACK!!!!!! A huge limb ... maybe 25 feet long
came out of one of the maple trees in the back yard ... but missed the house
! Sometime between midnight & 4:00 a. m. Friday, a second one - same size -
came out of the same tree. So, I have two huge tree limbs - themselves the
size of a nice tree each - in the back yard. No damage to the house; the
cars; us; or Princess. So, we are thankful. LOTS of leaves, small branches,
twigs, etc. littering the yard.
The wind died down around 10:00-11:00 a. m. Friday morning. By that time the
sky was clear & blue.
But, still no electric. Ours didn't come back on until about 10:15 last
[Friday] night. That's about 27 hours w/out lights. That's probably the most
we've been out lights in the 32 years I've lived in this house ... even in
the 1994 ice storm we were out only 11 hours.
Yesterday, Lynea & I went out to find hot food in the afternoon. Nearly
every place along the 235 strip in California was closed - w/out power. Yet,
there were pockets of power - "downtown" Hollywood, for example and sections
of California along Chancellor's Run Road. No rhyme or reason. Huge trees
had fallen on to the lines along one section of 235. We looped back to
Leonardtown via MD 5. Again, no power most of the way, but Leonardtown
itself had power. We went up at Wendy's in Leonardtown - strip mall on MD 5.
They had power there.
Last night we took our frozen food to a friend on Chancellor's Run ... it
was weird driving from here to there ... dark to the Hollywood 245/5
junction ... light down 235 about 2 miles .... then dark most of the way ...
then a few weird things ... 1/2 of Wildewood Shopping Center had lights; the
other 1/2 didn't. Others, like First Colony, were totally dark. Driving
along the built up fast-food strip on 235 in California, you would think you
were in totally uninhabited area ... the corner of 235 & 237 [Chancellor's
Run] was strange, too. Lights on one corner; dark on the other.
Anyway, we finally got lights for about 30 minutes; lost them for about 15
minutes [10:45-11:00] and got them again about 11:00 last night.
We were lucky.
This storm had less of the violence of the storms I remember as a kid
growing up on Long Island. The storms there in the 50's were pretty bad. I
remember a few in the 70's & 80's when I was up on L. I. that were pretty
bad, too. I guess L. I. is more exposed to the open ocean than Southern
Maryland is.
The storm surge in Annapolis, areas of Baltimore, Alexandria, etc. was
pretty bad. But, none of that was rain ... all was the wind blowing the
water inland.
I haven't heard what the storm did inland ... central Virginia, West
Virginia, western Maryland, western Pennsylvania, western New York State ?
anybody know ?

David
Hollywood, MD


----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [MDSTMARY-L] Weather conditions


> Hi Judith,
>
> I don't know about the rest of the St. Mary's County folks, but for us--so
> far, so good. Our electric was out for a couple of hours, but is now back
> on. It's raining and the wind gusts from time to time, but so far nothing
> major. They've evacuated folks along the Chesapeake Bay in Calvert
County;
> closed down the Chesapeake Bay Bridge; and they've probably shut down the
> bridge from St. Mary's to Calvert County (Solomon's Island). We've heard
of
> trees being down in several places but that's probably because the trees
> were already weakened from all the rain we've had over the summer.
>
> >From what I'm hearing, we'll get the worst of it about midnight. We've
> battened down the hatches and are hoping for best!!
>
> Linda Reno
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Judith Burger" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 7:40 PM
> Subject: [MDSTMARY-L] Weather conditions
>
>
> > Somebody in St. Mary's County tell the rest of us how things are going
> weather wise. We are worried about you. Judith Burger
> >
> >
>




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