The cleaning up and sorting out has begun. People are out looking for boats, docks, rafts, and other stuff that floated away; others are calling to let us know they have items tied to their trees, docks or whatever waiting for their owners to come pick them up.

Pat Gardner has a piece of dock about 10 ft. long tied up at their place at 1225 W. Shore Rd. She also has a silver aluminum canoe tied up there. Their number is 563-9994.

Bob Noyes on W. Shore Rd. is looking for a raft - small, blue one, that disappeared during the night. If you find it, give him a call at 563-3227.

Some cottages don't have internet or phone service this morning - Charter is down. So far, we've had no outages of either electricity (Washington Electric) or telephone (FairPoint).

We took a quick ride over to the other side of the pond - Garey at the post office told us there was a huge piece of real estate floating in the cove by Bertolini's and another, even larger one lodged at Erdmann's. We have pictures, and will get them on the blog a.s.a.p. Right now I have phone calls to return and no doubt there will be other lost and found items to post as the day progresses.

There is a fairly large washout by Keenan's and Underwood's on W. Shore Road. The road is about a third gone, but is still passable and it's well marked. There were a few trees down along the road, but those have been taken care of. Other than that, everything looks pretty good. The water in the pond got very, very high, but there are tons pouring out over the dam - more than I've ever seen before cascading over the top. The controls at the dam would be useless against such a torrent - we're just glad the water level even in the big pond seems to be going down a little this morning, which is very good news. Check back later for more news and pictures.