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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1131610" data-attributes="member: 99">We were on the edge of the storm for most of it.  Sustained winds never went above about 25 or 30 mph with gusts up around 40.  Oddly enough, there was this "rogue" band of heavy rain and winds that slipped out to the west of us and hit counties that figured they were relatively safe.  My sister and her new baby were staying at my mother's house in Cary (her husband works out of state during the week).  Fearing possible storm damage and loss of power, she went back home to Burlington, about an hour west of the Triangle.  She got a lot more rain than we did.From what little I've seen around town today, everybody has lots of leaves and small limbs down.  Many have lost largeish branches out of some trees.  A few (like me) have had sizable trees go down.All in all, it is nowhere near as bad as hurricanes Fran or Floyd were (for me).  Most people this far inland in NC didn't lose power for an extended period of time.  Ours was out for a couple hours yesterday in the early afternoon but came on about 1:30 PM and never went out for more than a minute or so after that.</blockquote>