Utter Exhaustion - Many Have Suffered Damage

Dinner was a nice diversion and a much need break from clean up detail that went on from early this morning today. On the way over we spoke by phone with a couple who are some of the boyfriend's clients and with whom we socialize regularly to see how they had fared at their gorgeous home on a point in York County jutting out into Chesapeake Bay. Not only had they lost shingles on their home which allowed water to collapse their dining room ceiling, but they also had all kinds of trash and other objects (a sofa, oil drums, fuel tanks and other toxic mess) wash up in their yard. Worse yet, they also had a 52 foot yacht that had broken lose crash into their pier, damaging the pier, and also wedging itself under a neighbor's boat on a lift in their boathouse causing the neighbor's boat to be forced up through the boathouse roof. Needless to say, they have had extensive damage as a result of it all. It all makes the boyfriend and I realize that MANY have suffered damage from this freak storm and that we have been relatively lucky. I'm going to bed - I am totally exhausted and feel like I've been whipped and beaten. I will post more tomorrow.