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cenes from Oriental on Monday, August 29.

The beginnings of the debris piles that showed up across town. This one, near the Town Dock on Hodges Street. The “OK” spray painted on the side of the propane tank means a crew came thru and checked its valve.

The South Avenue landscape changes yet again. In foreground a remaining splinter of a cedar tree that was destroyed in Irene. Further down the street is the 10 foot high stump remaining from the oak that stood near an artesian well. It was sawed down last fall.

On South Avenue Monday morning, a sign of some infrastructure uncoiling.

A stairway came free from the back door of Jane and Keith Crisco’s home on South Avenue. The chain link fence also gave way.

On the South Avenue side of Keith and Jane Crisco’s home, insulation set free by the hurricane’s winds, was caught by the chain link fence.

Part of the survival gear, post-Irene. A black plastic pump-up pressure sprayer put in to service as a solar-heated shower. Filled in the morning and set out in the sun all day, it provided hot water for showers at night, no small thing when the power — and electric water heater —- had been out for almost 3 days in Oriental’s Old Village. (At left is part of a 50 foot tree that fell across the yard.)

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Posted Tuesday August 30, 2011 by Melinda Penkava