Here comes the storm!!
 

We are in fall river and wind is just getting stronger now, how did it affect people in the valley? Hope everyone is ok.

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Hi Wendy

We're with you in Fall River. Only arrived a week ago, interesting start to our life here! As you say winds just picking up nothing else to report at the moment.

Lisa

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We are in Fredericton NB and the rain is just starting to get heavy (6:30pm). They are forecasting upto 4 inches (100mm) overnight. It was really cold about 3:30 this afternoon and then the temperature hiked as the rain came. I had thought they were going to be wrong and we would have snow.:blink:

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We are close to Moncton.

We have horses and llamas and chickens.

They are all in the barn except one llama that just won't be caught.
We all got soaked in the attempt.

So I will be having a sleepless night worrying about her.:frown:

Its raining pretty hard right now and is feeling pretty cold.

I just hope the wind doesn't get too strong so that my poor llama will be ok.

Penny

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We were supposed to be flying out of Halifax after a weeks recce to PEI, so unfortunately we'll have to spend a night in the Hilton and enjoy a few more canadian beers!

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Good luck guys, hope the storm isn't too bad for you all, especially your llama.

Fiona

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Good luck to you all and hope the storm passes without incident.:blink::)

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Hi all - it should have been over now - hope you're all ok? Check in and let us know once you get your power back! Take care :)

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Not quite over yet but starting to blow itself out, things got quite hairy at times, our whole house shook for hours, taking full force off the Atlantic, thought our windows would come in at one point,and the roof was squeaking badly. Lost power, will not get it back until estimated late Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. I was at work at 6:00am this morning to power outages etc, chaos really, but fun.

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Our power went off at around 2 or 3am and has just came back on at 11.50am. It's a bit on-off though at the moment. Feel really sorry for you Charlie 1 - no power for a few days :eek:

House nice and snug though as we have storage heaters which releases heat during the day. We also have a propane fire. No water when the power was off as we have a well, but luckily we have a watercooler so plenty of water to drink. :thumbsup:

Tim Horton's was very busy this morning! :eek:

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Just about played out in Fredericton now, some winds but everyone slept badly due to the rain lashing against the windows and sound of the wind. I was worried about a couple of dead trees (still standing) in our back garden ... they are still up but I am definitely going to tackle them before the next storm comes.

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Glad you're all ok :thumbup:- though it sounds pretty hairy alright - hope you get your power back sooner than that Charlie1 - we can't flush the loo in an outage (septic pump won't work) :unsure::eek:

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If it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown, put down the lid!!!!

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Hi Guys,

Good to hear that most of you seem to have weathered it ok. (Sorry, no pun intended)

Hope the llama is ok pennyhp?

Hope it all calms down for you soon, and power back on asap.

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I just hope the wind doesn't get too strong so that my poor llama will be ok.

Penny[/QUOTE]
hi Penny
so how is you llama???

no power last night but only for less than 2 hours ,so we were very lucky!
no internet though(came back an hour ago) !made me realise how dependent /addicted i am!

vee

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HI Mel
well at least you got an extra night in Canada:D

hope your flight was ok
vee

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Thank you all who expressed concern over my llama.

She survived the night ok and we managed to catch her in her holding pen this morning.
we had intended to put her in the barn with her brother but things didn't work out as well as we had hoped.
After we had walked a few steps she through an absolute wobbly and turned into the psycho llama from hell.:eek:

In the end we had to let her go and leave her where she was.

Now tomorow we have to build a shute all the way down to the barn, about 50 feet so we can herd her into her winter quarters.

On the bright side at least we didn't loose our electricity here so we have been able to refresh ourselves with frequent cups of tea throughout the drama.:D

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Just want to add my best wishes to all you Maritime folk, hope all is ok out there!

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Hope you got home to Co Antrim safe and sound:thumbsup:

How did you enjoy the reccie?

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It was a bit windy here in Eastern NL as Noel came through yesterday but nothing really out of the ordinary. The track of the storm took it to the west of the Island so the West Coast got it worst. The Wreckhouse (SW Newfoundland) reported winds of 180km/h!!

I've just despatched Mrs AX on the first flight to Halifax as unfortunately her grandfather passed away over the weekend. The friends she is staying with in Beaverbank may not have power until tommorrow sometime so she's taken a torch and warm clothes!

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we lost a few roof shingles and we had no power all day on Sunday, it came back on at 10 pm.

this is what it looked like here on the South Shore on Sunday morning

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Condolences to Mrs AX:(

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Sorry to hear of your loss.

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Sorry to hear of Mrs AX's loss.

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Thanks for the thoughts for Mrs AX. It's been a tough few weeks as her other grandfather passed away in October. They'd both had long and full lives though.

Anyway, lets get back onto the thread of Hurricane Noel stories. According the the Globe and Mail it's all to do with La Nina and we're going to have an interesting winter!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl.../National/home

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Condolences to Mrs AX.

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It's been a tough few weeks as her other grandfather passed away in October. They'd both had long and full lives though.


tough indeed !
condolences to Mrs AX
vee

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Hmf that's cheerful news. Brrrr we maybe in for a cold one allover the place.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl.../National/home

Does anyone really know what is going to happen weather wise? :confused:

It seems not, on the one hand we have the quoted above, yet Environment Canada says for most of Canada it will be a "normal" winter for temperature with "normal" to "below normal" precipitation for most of Canada.

Has anyone read what the "Farmer Almanac" is calling for? ;)

Cheers
Steve

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Read it here: http://www.almanac.com/weather/weather.canada.php

The Atlantic forecast is interesting. Lots of snow!

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Looks pretty good for the Prairies too. With slightly more snow for southern and western Alberta.

Can't complain at that. :)

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Some snow next week according to this link!

We were without power for about 12 hours at the weekend and I have to say the power outages seem to be becoming quite a regular occurance. I noticed most of our neighbours had generators running yesterday and I am seriously thinking about getting on installed. Anyone have experience of buying generators? What should you look for?

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Hi Paul,

We were without power in Hubbards from about 2am till 5pm yesterday, as we are renting a place with a well we had no water either.

Neighbours were really helpful, and also mentioned that this is the first time since Juan came through that they had been withour power for any real length of time. They said that occasionally the power might go out for a couple of hours but that they couldnt justify the purchase of a generator which with installation can easily run to $3000.

Having said that, whilst I was in Canadian Tire in Quinpool yesterday to get an axe for firewood, there were a few people asking about generators!

Thanks for the pm about pensions btw.

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Just got back to Antrim, the storm delayed us by 24 hrs, but the worst part was being delayed at Heathrow today by BMI for best part of 2 hours, easily the most annoying part of the trip. Will post regarding the recce when we have recovered, but it went well'ish.

Antrim 4

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Glad to hear you are home safe....don't like the sound of the "went well'ish":( so will await update with interest.

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Here is a thread, entitled Does anyone know this ??, that you'll probably find useful.