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Two new air-conditioning units at Leslie and Dan Allen’s home on Neuse Drive. They floated off their stands during the storm surge from Hurricane Irene. The water came a few inches in to their home’s first floor. The part of the house at left was blown open by the surge.

Dan Allen says he thought that because two of their cars were convertibles it would be best to put them up on blocks in the protection of their garage on Neuse Drive. It worked until something knocked in to the stands and then one car tapped in to another. Both had water damage and are likely totaled. They called their insurance company on Sunday and were still waiting for a visit on Wednesday.

Dan Allen’s workshop was in this part of his home on Neuse Drive. Water flooded the living quarters and two cars belonging to him and his wife Leslie. The loss he was feeling most, though, were two Chesapeake Lightcraft West River kayaks that he had made. They were holed when the surge waters burst in to his workshop/boat shed. Leslie Allen says it’s a breezeway or carport now.

One visible problem in electric service is on Freemason Street where the large oak that went over Saturday morning also took with it a power pole. Homes in that area – including the Cartwright House – have been without power since Friday night.

A lineman from Smith Electric Company of Shelby works on a replacement power pole put in place on Wednesday afternoon on Freemason Street. It was an important link in getting power restored. (The final link was at a pole on Neuse Drive.) Power was restored to the area in between Freemason and Whittaker Creek Wednesday night.

Foul weather fowl. While most birds made themselves scarce during Hurricane Irene (they have since returned) this cement goose stuck around. It is dressed by someone to meet the season and lives in a cemetery on Silverbrook Road. No word on whether it wore these foulies during the storm.

Street light on Link Lane. Almost literally. The lamp and pole had fallen as a result of the hurricane but has stayed lit even as power to nearby homes was still out.

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Posted Wednesday August 31, 2011 by Melinda Penkava