Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy made its way through the area a few days ago. Watching the news, it's pretty apparent that this was a massive storm that did severe damage to areas that are not too far away.  We had a ton of rain, and a good bit of wind, but all it all it wasn't that bad.  Nothing near the soaking that we saw during Hurricane Floyd a number of years back, at least as far as I remember.  A decent sized chunk of the neighboring town was out of power since the storm, but I think it's back on now.

There are quite a few trees down in the area, though, including one very close to the very first cache we ever found - View of the Lake. The road that passes by there has been closed, and when I took a walk through the park to check on that status of my two Video Game History caches I could see that a pretty massive tree actually fell down on top of the boat house that is pretty close to View of the Lake's GZ. I''ll check up on it as soon as I can, once they clear that tree and take down the police "Do Not Cross!" tape.

Not much else to report.  Both of my caches were fine, and I swung by my adopted cache while at work today, and it was fine as well.

There is a cache very close to work that I'd been meaning to check out - Keara's Monkey Cache.  This is in a park that's split between fields with trees and a huge playground area.  There is something interesting about the placement of the cache, and it's attached to GZ with....

Ok, well, it was attached to GZ with something.  When I attempted to get the cache, the thing that attached the cache to GZ fell apart.  I temporarily fixed things up, and have a plan to replace the attachment thing tomorrow.

My lesson learned is that I should be a little more prepared to patch things up if I visit a cache in bad shape (or if I cough break it cough).  I have seen plenty of cache logs where people replaced wet / missing log sheets, or changed out cache containers when the original went missing.  I'm not talking about the cache owners, either - random cachers make the effort to keep a cache alive.

I've noticed that, at least locally, the community of cachers is a true community, looking out for each other and each other's caches.  I've read online about people causing problems for cachers, but haven't seen that all around here, and that's just fine by me.

Cache listed in this post:

• Keara's Monkey Cache