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Joann D. Eldridge, 81, passed away in the early morning hours on Jan. 26, 2021, of Merkel cell carcinoma. She leaves behind her life partner of 38 years, Ruth Ostenson, and her beloved Ragdoll kitty, Luna.
Joann was born on August 31, 1939 in Milford, to Joe and Ethel Eldridge. She spent her early years in Worcester, until her parents moved to the Sagamore/Buzzard’s Bay area. Joann attended Bourne Grammar School and Bourne High School, graduating in 1957. She often traveled with her father up and down the East Coast waterways, as he was a sports fisherman. Because of his tutelage, Joann entered a state-wide fishing contest at age10 and won first prize, traveling to the Massachusetts State House to receive her award.
so we are going to have a lot of trees down. the other thing, of course, is the tornadic activity, which we have seen, we have a report of a death in queen anne county, the county that you come to when you take the chesapeake bay from annapolis to the eastern shore of maryland. a tree fell on a home there, one death there. in addition to that, we had a tornado in louis, delaware, about 20 miles to the north here, just beyond rehoboth beach, around the cape pendleton into delaware bay. apparently, a house was destroyed by a horr by a tornado. i am very encouraged. i don t know where all of this rain is going, back into the ocean, back into the day bay. but it is not ponding in downtown ocean city. that s the story from here. back to you in new york. doug, what s interesting, as you say, you have experienced the rain for five hours.
and what we saw was very encouraging. there was virtually no ponding in downtown streets with the exception of a few intersections. the electricity was on in the majority of the city. it is not on where we are, for 10 blocks that way or 20 blocks that way. but the majority of downtown ocean city has electricity. we saw the bay on the far side had not really risen into the street level. we saw in addition to that, no trees down. i saw not a single tree down. a lot of branches down, a lot of leaves, but no major trees down whatsoever. so very encouraging signs there, based upon what we have seen. based upon that, as well, i would conjecture, that most of the damage we are going to be seeing up the east coast from the storm is going to be more inland, from power outages and from major trees, old growth trees falling down. we have the summer foliage in full foliage right now. we have the root systems very weakened from the excess rain.
the hurricane is still 15 miles away from where you are. so you are on the front end of the storm. so does that mean we have five hours of rain on the back end of the storm as well? i assume so. reporter: you know, i assume so, too. what that back end of the storm does to the bay, you know, whether we see the water driven back up into the bay and perhaps back on land, that may very well happen. and these words of encouragement, i might be eating them five hours from now. we just don t know. we wish you the best. thank you so much, doug. i am sure we will be checking back with you. fema has taken heavy criticism in the past for handling natural disasters. but how is the federal agency dealing with the earthquake earlier in the week, the hurricane now? we have a live report from d.c., coming up. don t go away.
massachusetts, it could weaken to a tropical storm, but the national hurricane service says that i that won t matter t. will pack dangerous wind, flooding rains and a storm surge up to 8 feet. governor duval patrick is urging residents, stay close to home tomorrow. we are planning for the worst. and just as the forecast the conditions can improve, they can also worsen. and so our advice to everyone is to stay indoors and off the roads from late tonight when the rain will get high, right through tomorrow. some of our fox favorites are sitting in irene s path. and we usually reach out to michael boden, but he s in buzzard bay, massachusetts, right now. he is on the phone with more. buzzard bay, doc, is that part of cape cod? caller: that extends into cape cod, the southern part of massachusetts. whews going on there right what s going on there right now?