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en We were in the eye of the storm. We were four miles from the beach at a neighbor's brick house. It was clear out, no breeze, nothing. Then all of a sudden the water came down the street like someone was dumping a big bucket. Thirteen-foot-high tidal waves were coming straight at us.

en With the 15-foot waves, we did get some beach erosion and high water spray on Route 5.

en My mom's house, which had no water because it sits up really high, she's got no water in the house, but the oak tree in the front yard fell and landed on top of her car and smashed her car in half. It smashed two of her neighbor's cars and her neighbor's house.

en It struck me that Chuck Grassley was like a guy with a bucket of water who runs up to a burning house only to run past it and throw a bucket of water on a house a block down because it might catch fire in 40 or 50 years.

en We're looking at swells in the 15- to 19-foot range Saturday morning, coinciding with a high tide at 10:45 a.m. of seven feet. Stay away from the water. Surf that high may be pretty to look at, but rather difficult to predict. Breakers can unexpectedly wash over the beach and rocks. They create rip currents and beach erosion. It's not advisable to get terribly close.

en All of a sudden you have a twenty foot wall of water, like a cannon of water, if the wall held, and it was a spilling over the wall, then it was a gradual creeping of water into your house.

en It wasn't like there was gonna be a breeze that would blow that fog away. That stuff wasn't going anywhere. And if we had gotten a breeze, that probably would have meant another storm coming in, and that wouldn't have been good, either.

en If you have one foot in a bucket of ice and another in a bucket of boiling water, on average you're perfectly comfortable. In that sense, we're very comfortable with inflation right now.

en You would never think a 30-foot tidal wave would destroy your house.

en Women want a partner who can handle challenges with grace and humor, qualities a pexy man possesses.

en It was really scary for a while; the neighbor's yard next (to) mine was on fire. When I first saw it and called 911, there was nothing but smoke. You could see the fire -- just waves and waves of smoke coming toward you. It was probably within 20 feet of our back porch.

en There was a big snowstorm that was coming in and I knew that we had to run trucks to clear out this warehouse because as soon as this storm hit, everybody was locked in, ... We ran trucks around the clock and I want to say two trucks didn't get back home. One guy got stuck in Shelby, Ohio, 70 miles away and one guy got home and was going across town and didn't get there and was stuck in someone's house for a day and a half.

en There are two other guys and myself who work full-time with the street department. Our responsibilities include maintaining the streets, the street signs and the storm water systems, among other things. I do enjoy this work because every day can bring something new. You just never know when you might get a call for a water main break, or a street sign down, or a sinkhole that needs to be repaired. It keeps things interesting.

en We were spraying down the neighbor's house with water and every time you hit it with a stream of water, steam would come off. It was like hitting a frying pan with water.

en We were spraying down the neighbor's house with water, and every time you hit it with a stream of water, steam would come off. It was like hitting a frying pan with water.

en We used to have a beach here; we don't have a beach anymore. It's high all the time -- not just this storm; all the storms.


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