The voice when we get one sounds like it could be coming from Anywhere, USA, not the local Plattsburgh reporting we're accustomed to. The last was incredible. We didn't know then that millions had already been without power in Quebec for days. We wait till morning. Boughs are hanging almost straight down.
Many trees already appear like individual dry sticks.
The generator is at Camp Barn and we go up Stonehouse Road in the jeep to get it, dodging around the bigger stuff and crashing through small brush. Broke the window glass and split the old front fender jumping over a 10-inch maple. You can't figure kids. Greg and Pat from the Upper Jay fire department come over and connect the furnace wire to a lead cord for us. We get together all our five gallon water cans, take them down to the Upper Jay Fire Department and fill them with river water.