Well, I'm finally back at school and have power again. I go to school in Norfolk Va. and was evacuated tuesday night. I went home to Charlottesville in central Va. We lost power at my house in c-ville around 2pm thursday afternoon and didn't get it back until about 6pm on sunday. Several trees in my backyard were knocked down. With 3 days of my dad and I chainsawing, carrying, loading, hauling etc., the yard is finally back close to normal.

I went down to Sandbridge beach yesterday morning with a friend who lives down there. Sandbridge is just south of Virginia beach. There was a lot of damage there. Power was still out and didn't look like it was going to be back on anytime soon. There were still power lines down everywhere. The main road along the ocean was completely covered in sand probably as deep as 2 or 3 feet of sand in some places. There were bulldozers, backhoes, etc. working on clearing the roads but they still had a lot of work to do. My friends oceanfront house was fine although covered in sand and just a little damp inside. You could clearly see where water had come over the dunes which used to be fairly tall, but are only about half the size they used to be now. Everyone who was there was working on shoveling out driveways. It looked like a neiborhood clearing their driveways after a big snowstorm except they were all shoveling sand instead.