A Very Sandy Halloween

This post is extremely late, so sorry for that.  I meant to write it closer to Halloween proper, but with Frankenstorm Sandy knocking out my Internet service all the way into the second week of November, that wasn't going to happen.  Instead, I did quite a lot of reading - J.R.R. Tolkien became my bedfellow for about 4 days.

All things considered, though, I actually was quite lucky.  Aside from a plethora of destroyed tiles

And no damaged cars either... talk about fortunate.

there wasn't much else that was damaged in the surrounding areas (minus maybe some downed lines).  Driving to and from work was much more of an eye opener.  I could get a picture while behind the wheel, but there were full-grown trees, ripped up from the root, lying against porches.  I got away with a few days power (and a freezer full of luke-warm water), but that was the worst of it.

Enough of the morose, though.