Gremlin Garage surives The Blow, tarp doesn't...tree on "free" Gremlin?

["Jerry" <gremlingts@xxxx>]

 Well, the Gremlin Garage surived, as did all the cars. Only 
causulity was a tarp on my sunroof Gremlin, it was dryrotted, so it 
split and came off. Other than that, only a few stray leaves and 
branches marr the yard around my house ( just looking from the back 
deck ). The trees stayed up ( well, one behind me at another house 
looks like it's no longer there, will go see later on ). Actually, 
there was some leakage of water from the roof into my house, I had 
water dripping down the upstairs bedroom wall, and into the ceiling 
below downstairs, although thought I had fixed that problem a year 
ago when part of the roofing blew off. Guess not. :( Will call my 
insurance company to see if they'll pay for it , though. If it's 
under $500, they won't. Oh well. 
Got a call from my friend Sean south of me, he said a tree had 
fallen in his driveway, and "might" be on the Gremlin ( the free 
one ), he wasn't sure. It fell parallel with the driveway, might only 
be a few branches near it or hit it, he did't go around the side of 
the house to check last night, only knew the Gremlin was in the 
general area. I'll know more today, I hope, and it'll be good news. :)
Called work, got no answer, so guess no one showed up for work as 
of 8 am this morning. Not in a hurry to go in,either, with all the 
problems on the roads ( trees, flooding, etc. ). So, guess I may go 
walk around the neighborhoods to see what damage has happened. 
Probably will call it off going to work anyway. :) I live in northern 
Virginia, the storm track stayed west instead of veering more north 
like they predicted, so we didn't get as much rain and wind as they 
first predicted. I think we're lucky here, really. My house caught 
most of the wind, as did the trees, my Gremlins were barely ruffled 
by the winds for the most part, as my driveway is surrounded by 20' 
tall pines and a fence on one side, and the house and deck and fence 
on another. Even my shed and little rain awning on the garage 
survived the onslaught of the Isabel, so I guess my carpentry skills 
are ok. LOL. 
I pray that everyone else gets away with minimal damage as well, 
looks like most of the worst went to the mountains, and they got 
about 18+ INCHES of rain last night! Whew! I'm sure we'll get some 
flooding from the rain waters when it comes back down our way in a 
few days, though. Alexandria, VA is hit hard in Olde Towne, water is 
flooding two historic blocks ( as usual). We had our power flicker on 
and off all last night, but never really lost it longer thana few 
seconds. 
Well, guess I'll call in work again, see if anyone showed up, if 
not, I'm not going in. Thats' the weather report from Virginia,

Jerry Casper