On Sun, 09 Aug 2020 09:15:53 -0300, Lucretia Borgia
> wrote:

>On Sun, 09 Aug 2020 07:19:50 +1000, Bruce > wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 08 Aug 2020 18:17:22 -0300, Lucretia Borgia
> wrote:
>>
>>>Bruce wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 08 Aug 2020 16:15:04 -0300, Lucretia Borgia
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I was outside town, on the waterfront and took full force of Hurricane
>>>>> Juan. It also meant I had no water either as I had a well 375ft down,
>>>>> a drilled well and needed power for the pump. It was part of my
>>>>> decision to sell and move to this condo as a few months after that we
>>>>> had an enormous blizzard most people called White Juan; that time the
>>>>> plough didn't get down our road for about ten days and I called my
>>>>> real estate friend and said to him, 'Put the house on the market" to
>>>>> which he sighed and said "You and about eight others today"
>>>>
>>>> LOL I had similar thoughts after the recent drought and bushfires
>>>> here. But maybe, straight after such a disaster, house prices are
>>>> unusually low in the affected area.
>>>>
>>>My house was on the ocean with a sandy beach at the bottom of the
>>>garden - never going to be a problem selling, in the end, two doctors
>>>from Calgary bought it, so excited to live by the sea.
>>
>>And is their house still standing?
>
>They sold and moved back west after a couple of years. The couple who
>bought from them still live there but they have let the house
>deteriorate, 5 lovely tall cedars that sheilded the house from view of
>the street have somehow died. They have added a ghastly garage, I
>felt rather sad when I last went to my ex. neighbours and saw it.

I'd hate to see those trees dead.