East Coast residents with Douglas County ties today spoke of riding out Hurricane Sandy, which brought widespread flooding, power outages and spooky moments. “It was really kind of eerie,” said former News-Review copy editor Julie Byrd-Jenkins, who lives in a third-floor apartment on top of a hill in Newmarket, N.H. It’s been a somewhat uncomfortable place to be since the hurricane began to be felt there Monday. Wind whistled through the windows and the apartment creaked. The storm has passed, she said this morning. But about half the town is without power, and 15 miles away, streets near the Port …