Thanks to Bob Lyall, Dave Schenkman and several others who checked in with me as nasty weather hit the East Coast this week. Thankfully our power never went out and we never had a leak, let alone a flood. But the winds were something awful Monday night.

There was a lot of numismatic chatter on the Internet as the storm approached. On the Colonial Coins Yahoo group Jeff Rock (of California) made this friendly offer to Roger Moore (of New Jersey):

Roger didn't take Jeff up on his offer.I checked in with some of our readers and contributors to see how they fared.

From Virginia Mike Packard writes:

From Connecticut, Dick Johnson writes:

When I didn't get any other quick replies, I knew some folks were probably without power and offline. Late Wednesday evening this report arrived from Ray Williams in New Jersey:

From New Hampshire, Dave Bowers writes:

At noon on Saturday Andrew Bowers reported:

Work To Secure Collapsed Midtown Crane To Begin Saturday(manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/171769/work-to
-secure-collapsed-midtown-crane-to-begin-saturday)

One of the first folks I emailed was Roger Siboni of Mantoloking, NJ, one of the hardest-hit areas during the storm. Saturday afternoon someone posted this note on his behalf to the Yahoo Colonial Coins group: