Normally when  hurricane/tropical storm runs through New England I'm in the area that gets whalloped. This time the storm went further inland and we simply got a bunch of rain and wind. The worst I was worried about was losing some of my pears due to high winds, and I did lose a few, but not many.

The western part of the state and other areas did not fair so well. We're texting and checking on FaceBook to check in with family members and friends in other locations.

We were lucky.