ComancheKid45 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Were fine here so far.....havent been out and about yet though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1tonMJ Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Just fine. Swear to god, anything like this seems to be 'not so bad' here. 10 miles north of south, catastrophe. Not here. It was windy with light constant rain, although I went out at 2 am it it wasn't even really raining. Just kind of water blowing around. I am in Chat. Co, south of Buffalo. Some houses are without power, news says like 950 people. A buddy said the scanner was blowing up last night though. Lights flickered once or twice, but not enough to turn the Xbox or TV off. Power was on this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinkrun Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Just some wind and rain here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrawombat Posted October 30, 2012 Author Share Posted October 30, 2012 We didn't get too much other than some pretty strong wind gusts. Lost a big brand on one of my older trees and it conveniently fell directly on the cable line...right before MNF kickoff....oh well looked like a boring game, anyway.] Didn't even lose power...not even a flicker. Basement stayed relatively dry - pump had no problem keeping up. From the pictures I have seen of other areas we got away unscathed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMCJeepMJ Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Lake Michigan today: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comanche County Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Prayers to all ya'll up north. If it would have hit GA, my house would be underwater. I'm right at sea level and there's canal right behind the house that would've let it all in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 The big deal with this storm was mostly storm surge. All four coastal counties in Connecticut were hammered. Houses ripped off foundations, or just opened up on the water side. I'm 15 miles inland, and 450 feet above sea level. Lots of trees down around town, and as of 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday my town is 62% out of power. The next town south (closer to the water, but still not "shoreline") is 75% out. But Tuesday was a beautiful day, with lightovercast and some sun, and the "wind" was down to a pleasant breeze. So work on clean-up and repair could get started. Don't even want to think about the construction site where I work. It's about 100 yards from New Haven harbor, with a ground elevation of about 10 feet. The prediction was a 13+ foot surge on top of the full moon high tide, so I expect things will be a bit ... soggy. Only good news is that the building goesn't have a basment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 The big deal with this storm was mostly storm surge. All four coastal counties in Connecticut were hammered. Houses ripped off foundations, or just opened up on the water side. I'm 15 miles inland, and 450 feet above sea level. Lots of trees down around town, and as of 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday my town is 62% out of power. The next town south (closer to the water, but still not "shoreline") is 75% out. But Tuesday was a beautiful day, with lightovercast and some sun, and the "wind" was down to a pleasant breeze. So work on clean-up and repair could get started. Don't even want to think about the construction site where I work. It's about 100 yards from New Haven harbor, with a ground elevation of about 10 feet. The prediction was a 13+ foot surge on top of the full moon high tide, so I expect things will be a bit ... soggy. Only good news is that the building goesn't have a basment. Glad to hear that all is mostly well or should get there soon in CT. :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjeff87 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 all good in Richmond FWIW, didn't even get to test out the new house generator.... I might have to make an emergency delivery of my backup portable generator to family up around Philly, tho. There not expecting to get power back for a week and are supposed to call me today after they get the latest update from the poco. We might meet somewhere around DC and do a hand-off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 all good in Richmond FWIW, didn't even get to test out the new house generator. Not that I'm disappointed Jeff, but was curious how your generator worked when the power went out. :yes: Talked to my Sis in Gloucester this week; her power didn't even flicker when Sandy passed through. Amazing with all the trees that went down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjeff87 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 we've had three small outages since install, two of them were just small blips and we weren't home for either. The last one we lost power for about 20 minutes in the middle of the day on a Saturday (no idea why), we were home, and it worked perfectly. It also self-exercises each week for 12 minutes, unloaded. One time I walked around the corner while it was running and took a look at my gas meter......that's something I'll not do again :rotf: Glad it's here, but even gladder that it's not running LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeepnDale Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 How did all of you on the East Coast fair?? I assume you are all out of power and can't reply...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrawombat Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 Nothing exciting to report in MD. My parents in NJ got away relatively easy, all things considered. They found one of their greenhouses in the cow pasture a few hundred feet away from where it originally sat. Think they lost some siding on the house and some damage to the roof on the machine shed. Compared to what happened down at the Jersey Shore, they came away lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 How did all of you on the East Coast fair?? I assume you are all out of power and can't reply...... I'm replying from a McDonald's in another town. My town is currently 69% out of power -- which is UP from 62% on Tuesday. LOTs of trees down, so I have to figure the utility deenergized the whole friggin' system to allow tree crews to get stuff off the lines without having to wait for a power crew to denergize on a street-by-street basis. The irony is that we were out for a week just a year ago, and people were hopping mad about the piss-poor response from the power companies. So the state passed a new law, that if the power companies miss their projected repair times, they get fined. So, naturally -- as of Wednesday night (almost 48 hours after the peak of the storm), there IS no projected forecast for repair. They'll let us know on Thursday (they say). And my emergency generator just died. Engine runs strong -- no juice. Anybody know if an older Coleman 5000 watt generator uses replaceable brushes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimoshel Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Interesting reading. All the comments posted BEFORE the storm hit the fan. I'm a hard *ss but I still feel for the folks caught in this mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirteatr717 Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Basically long island is half flooded and the other half has trees down at every house, my friend has a 45' boat in his neighbors swimming pool that's in the backyard...... My other friend lost everything, his house and truck are now in the bay. Because of all the flooding people's oils tanks started floating Out of the ground and ripping lines apart so there's oil spills and sewage plants are overflowing into the bay so the entire south shore can't get eletricity or fresh water. There's a foot of muddy poop on some blocks.... NYC is beyond flooded and the bridges to long island are mostly closed so we can't get any gas/ food shipped in, I've seen national guard hummers and choppers everywhere since Monday and even a few of their 6x6 land sea vehicles... I also saw pictures of people surfing the waves of lake Michigan! I'll get you guys some pics later today if I'm even allowed near the south shore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87jeepmj Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 i just got power back after 4 days without it in central jersey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexia Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 i just got power back after 4 days without it in central jersey Welcome back! Anything to report? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87jeepmj Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 Lots of downed trees, the shore is destroyed, theres boats sitting it parking lots and on train tracks that just floated there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dookie Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Anyone ever see a show on discovery about what would happen if New York got hit by a big storm surge? Yea, like that would happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87Warrior Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Anyone ever see a show on discovery about what would happen if New York got hit by a big storm surge? Yea, like that would happen. 'It could happen tomorrow' I was just discussing this with a buddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirteatr717 Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Supposed to get hit with another storm Wednesday... Fire island is gone and this is what's left of ocean parkway! The dunes were at least 100 yards past the road before the storm. There were waves over 45' recorded breaking over the barrier islands... The worst things happening now are the gas crisis, I've waited over 2.5 hours in line to get gas and people stealing stuff from abandoned cars and houses and electrical house fires from the power company turning power back on in neighborhoods.... It's been a crazy week to say the least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Eagle Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 There's a reason why "barrier islands" are so named ... and Long Island is a barrier island. You'd think people would have learned not to build in places that Mother Nature designed to be trashed in storms, but ... Noooooooooo. To complete the proof of societal insanity, they'll rebuild Long Island, just like they rebuilt New Orleans and Galvaston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirteatr717 Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Long Island is actually a glacial sand deposit, the barrier islands such as Jones Island and Fire Island were dredged and made larger by Robert Moses in the 1920s and then hand planted sea grass with horizontal roots to keep the sand dunes from blowing away in the wind. They lasted over 90 years without getting breached! Parts of the mainland were under 12 feet of water due to the storm surge..... Just to give you an aspect of how much erosion took place. People will live anywhere and everywhere. Like Hawaii for instance, who would be crazy enough to live on the largest acapellago in the world? You could ask the same question to the people of San Francisco who live only a few miles from one of the larger fault lines in the northern hemisphere.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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