Well, that was quick. My wife wouldn't let me go anywhere, and for once, I listened to her. The Heiress did say that she wanted to "go outside and play in the rain" at about 10 AM. We had to explain to her that it probably wouldn't be a good idea. My in-laws told me that in their city (Schenectady), they had trees down in quite a few places, and there were several homes evacuated for fallen trees. I suppose that the Stockade area of Schenectady is flooded, especially since the NYC Department of Environmental Protection is letting a lot of water out into the Schoharie Creek (actually a river), which flows into the Mohawk River above Schenectady, because they felt that the Gilboa Dam could use the relief. My parents lost power at around 11 AM, and they haven't gotten it back yet. My sister, a few miles away, lost power at 7:30, but got it back around the time that my parents lost theirs.
I'll go out in a bit and look around--go over to the church and look at my gardens, and see if I need scuba gear to get to them. I'm sure that there's trees down.
Rick Reichmouth of Fox News Channel was showing the next trpoical wave that's coming off the east coast of Africa. It'll be Katia, when it's named--and he's pretty sure that it's coming for the US.