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We are both well and the boat is well.
There is disaster all around us.
Entire marinas are wrcked. Some boats at our marina are wrecked but
all in all our marina faired well. Our boat is completely unharmed.
Our docks were inches from rising overtop of the pilings.
The water stopped rising at just the right time.
At one point a set of docks from another marina came into our marina.
They drifted psdy our boat and smashed into other boats in our marina.
The nearby town of stoney creek is completely wrecked.
I walked through just as the national guard was letting residents back
to their homes.
Lots of crying.
Currently there is no power and limited internet.
Cell phone seems to work sometimes but not always.
We can send and receive texts and emails.
We just setup a method to send blog posts by email (hence this post)
Once we get full internet we will make a picassa album of the pics of
the disaster.

pasquale

storm going away.

there is debri everywhere. i mean trees in the parking lot and floating everywhere. (they were floating in the parking lot). Around the safe house we saw 4 large trees get ripped out by the roots. when the safe house started to sway in the wind we left to a better place. we hid in the upper floor of the marina office (the lower floor was flooded) untill the waters started to recede. now we are back on the boat. the wind is a very gentle 30 knots gusting to 45. no more 76 knots.

storm storm storm

76 knot winds seen on my mast instrument. 12 foot storm surge. We left the boat for a safe house, the safe house flooded and started to fall apart. We are now at another safe house. The wind is starting to let up bit the tide is going out. The boat is safe. I feel better now.

OK, no more cute song lyrics, this is getting very serious.
The winds just gusted to 100km.
The owner of a boat two slips away is going to try to get to the marina with thoughts of bailing from here.
The danger is that we will get overrun with the storm surge.
Can we even get the boat out of here with these winds?
Can we find a safe spot to anchor on the Hudson?
Wish we knew....

rising tides

This is your captain,
We are about to attempt a crash landing,......

Captain says "watch the storm surge"
Captain says "watch the docks break free"
Captain says "cut the lines and motor out to sea"
Have some rum and relax,  ha ha ha 

This is going to be some day...............

This is the time, and this is the record (blog) of the time....

basically from one of my favourite artists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hedIexysvK4


So, frankenstorm promises a historically high storm surge up to 11 feet in places.
Coupled with a spring high tide at the same time we may have all the docks float free of the pilings.
If that looks like it will happen we will cut the dock lines and motor out to the far side of the river (the lee side) and anchor out there. That's where the coast guard ships are settled in.

That's what my head says. My cozy, soft squishy side says hold on to shore.

we'll see.
pic is of spring high tide this morning before the surge. Very little margin left in the pilings.

and a random pic of the mast coming down in toronto.

Storm Front

We've got a low pressure system and a northeast breeze We've got a falling barometer and rising seas We've got the cumulonimbus and a possible gale We've got a force nine blowing on the Beaufort scale (Billy Joel - Stormfront) We've done what we can. We added a couple hundred feet more dock lines and Hammertime is almost in a hammock. Certainly any spider would be proud of the web we created. We went to town and bought beer, wine and rum. Am I forgetting something, oh yes, we got food too.  Lots. The holding tank is empty, the water tanks are full. The batteries are charged and our diesel is topped up with a couple of extra jugs lashed to the boat. We even did our laundry in anticipation of the power going out. Now the hard part starts - we wait..... There's a storm front coming White water running and the pressure is low Storm front coming Small craft warning on the radio (Billy Joel - Stormfront)

our exact location

our exact location is right here

this sattelite pic is old so that is not our boat under the green arrow. But thats where we are.