How is Philly?
I've seen numerous reports on NY and NJ, but nothing on Philly......
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Although I don't know what's going on right on the river. Most of the problem in this area I think is the wind. This hurricane isn't dumping as much rain for its size as others, and it's not come down so fast that it hasn't had time to go elsewhere. Around 3 or 4 a.m. the winds calmed down a lot. The quiet seems really weird after all those hours and hours of constant howling wind. I'm sure there's downed trees messing with power lines, hitting cars and houses and that some people are getting water in basements or leaking into their homes from roofs that aren't all that sealed up well. I live in an old house in the burbs, and the basements are really rock solid here... never had so much as a drop of water. I'm pretty lucky though that my street is a big hill so all the water rushes off when we do get a real pounding rainfall that dumps a deluge in minutes. I would guess that anyone living near creeks, streams and rivers might be having some flooding going on from waterways overtopping. Other than that not all that much is going on here compared to other places.
I dunno, I think we got really lucky and the really bad stuff seemed to skirt around us. Honestly, I've never been through a hurricane that had such LITTLE amount of rainfall. If it weren't for the gale winds I wouldn't have really called this a storm but just crappy rainy weather. What is really strange though is I've never been through a hurricane where it was this late in the season and so COLD out. I have to really think that this is more what I'm used to as a nor'easter that just wasn't cold enough to make sleet or snow (though it's supposed to get close to freezing tonight and we're in for a lot more wet stuff yet).
With this wind I expected all the trees to be bald but it doesn't seem really that different than it was the last few days. My late shedding tree is still mostly green, and even with the ripping winds not many leaves came off. I went out with the dog twice... once around nightfall just as it apparently was starting to hit though it seemed a good time since the rain wasn't doing much and again around 1 or 2 a.m. We did the usual walking halfway to China, and other than twiggy type branches there was only one decent sized tree limb that I noticed had come down. The wind was pretty ripping though and I was so scared a branch or tree would come down on my head and the dog would have to haul my carcass home. The dog is LOVING this weather and my biggest issue has been convincing him to stay inside or quit goofing off outside and come back in. The only "leaking" or "flooding" I've had was him shaking off three gallons of water from all his fur every time he came back inside all over the kitchen. I ran out of reasonably dry towels and had to start drying him off with various bits of clothing from the hamper.
Speak of the devil... guess who wants to go back outside again. 
The fact that we're the 2nd largest metropolis on the East Coast doesn't mean that we deserve any press. 
We were lucky as I posted in a different thread: when the storm made landfall, the eye opened up and covered the Delaware Valley to the Jersey Shore near AC.
thank goodness.
