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Hurricane Sandy - The Perfect Storm...Part Deux

einmusiker said:
any word on roosevelt island? I lived there last year during Irene and needless to say Sandy looks much much worse. I am northwest of the city in orange county now. Electricity has flickered a few times. I'm sure power will go out sometime tonight.
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we are ok 😉
the walkway is flooded, but almost all the buildings are on slightly higher ground so we should be ok .
power is ok so far
i can see a few trees down, but nothing serious

the fdr is a river now, with strong current going southward
 
MacNut said:
My barometer is staring to go up, dropped to 979.4 now back to 980.2
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According to NWS, if the numbers hold up, this will be the most intense storm EVER, as measured by barometric pressure, to have occurred north of North Carolina.

I'm just outside Boston (about 15 miles) and, happily, about 25 miles in from the coast. This is one nasty sumbitch!

I really feel for the folks on the South facing coast of New England...Rhode Island, Connecticut, and a little piece of Mass. The storm surge around 11:00 PM is predicted to be historic.

My best to all my neighbors, near and far, in New England...be safe!!!
 
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maflynn said:
Its high tide where I live and here's a couple of shots of the water going over the sea wall. Typically the water is about 100 yards from the seawall
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Those are some nice shots of the water hitting the seawall.

Seems like the East Coast always has the best storms. Actually, the best storm names 😛. Unlike here in the West Coast. This is what we get for today:
 

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A 30 y/o man in Flushing, Queens is the storm's first fatality, crushed by a tree. Stay safe, people.
 
We lost power about an hour ago. No storm surge issues where we're at (CT but not along the coast), but the winds are STRONG. A tree went down in front of our neighbor's house, blocking the road. My crazy wife went out to gawk at it. I made her come in... While we were going back to the house, a big gust came up and broke a big tree in half near where she had been standing! It landed on the the power lines--that's when we lost power for good.

Now I'm just hoping none of these trees take out our house
 
we just 2 or 3 one minute power outages.


glad i have a ups . my barometer bottomed out at 28.2?

since the last number is 28.5 and the rest is off the charts the 28.2 is a guess.

I am lucky the storm slid 20 miles south of Atlantic City vs 20 miles north of

AC. Winds are close to but not quite as bad as dec 1992.

That storm had a few 97 mile per hour gusts measured in Cape May county.

So far so good. No leaks windows broken etc. Not in a flood spot.


Lights just flicked a few more times. Lost cable tv but not the net. router is on the ups
 
Shrink said:
According to NWS, if the numbers hold up, this will be the most intense storm EVER, as measured by barometric pressure, to have occurred north of North Carolina.

I'm just outside Boston (about 15 miles) and, happily, about 25 miles in from the coast. This is one nasty sumbitch!

I really feel for the folks on the South facing coast of New England...Rhode Island, Connecticut, and a little piece of Mass. The storm surge around 11:00 PM is predicted to be historic.

My best to all my neighbors, near and far, in New England...be safe!!!
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I am very worried about this right now, the shore is getting hammered probably about as hard as 54 and 38. I am expecting to walk into the beach house tomorrow to 3 feet of water damage. This is the storm that is feared on the coast, adding in the full moon and it is a recipe for disaster. This will put Irene to shame and we had decent damage then too.
 
Don't panic said:
we are ok 😉
the walkway is flooded, but almost all the buildings are on slightly higher ground so we should be ok .
power is ok so far
i can see a few trees down, but nothing serious

the fdr is a river now, with strong current going southward
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are you in the octagon?
 
CNN reporting the NYSE floor 3ft underwater!😱

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Other outlets claiming that is not the case. Stay tuned...
 
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We lost power in Western Catskills for about half an hour around 6:30pm, but it's been steady on since then and the DSL is working ok (my provider's servers are a couple counties away from here). I figure turn the thermostat up for a while, the fridge and freezer temps down for awhile then put everything back to normal, go to sleep and hope all the big trees stay upright.

At least it's warm enough so if the power goes out again, we don't have to worry about water pipes freezing, at least not the next few nights. Towards the weekend, different story if there are outages from stress on the power grid due to events south of here.

NOAA-wise: Weather forecasters have got this area's max wind gusts downgraded from 70 to 55 mph now so looks like we're gonna get lucky on this one. No flooding, thank god. Holding a good thought for people in the coastal areas especially. The thought of 80, 90 mph winds trying to take a roof off is pretty scary.
 
Nothing major here in Pittsburgh area. Been raining non stop, but no flooding yet. Winds aren't as high as they were making them out to be, which I expected from the start.

Edit: Apparently we haven't even gotten to the high winds, so disregard my last sentence.
 
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Sydde said:
Wait, umm ... Oh, I guess you must have like 4G or something 😱
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Well, that's what AT&T calls it anyway 😉
But I shouldn't complain, because otherwise I'm just sitting in the dark...

The BIG gusts of wind are dying down a bit. I'm really hoping for no more trees down around us... Well, mainly, nothing that would hit the house!
 
Could never happen here. Oops! I spoke too soon.

Oh Dear...

Rising water threatened the cooling system at the Oyster Creek nuclear plant, in Toms River, N.J.

The water level was more than six feet above normal. At seven feet, the plant would lose the ability to cool its spent fuel pool in the normal fashion
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My cousin's family is in Chicago, she posted on facebook that they've lost power a few times already there. Hope they'll be alright.
 
Don't panic said:
Nope, next to the queensboro bridge.

Worst has passed now, without major issues here. But some other areas of the city were not as lucky
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nice. it seems like the Island can take a beating, and apparently against the odds. Everyone I speak to about it says that it's location in the east river and how low lying it is a recipe for disaster
 
school closed again tomorrow. I'm hoping that since the potus declared an emergency in NY that they don't count these as snow days.
 
einmusiker said:
school closed again tomorrow. I'm hoping that since the potus declared an emergency in NY that they don't count these as snow days.
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I can't answer for NY, but here in Mass they would since there's a law that there's a minimum number of school days the students must have, so if you use up a number of them in the fall, regardless of whether its a declared emergency or not, it counts.
 
TedM said:
Hopefully we don't experience too many casualties...
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Last I saw it was up to 16 dead.

Tilpots said:
TWC just showed people long boarding on Lake Michigan!
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Yeah, and evacuation was recommended for one small Wisconsin community due to those high waves. This storm is affecting a HUGE area!

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According to NWS, if the numbers hold up, this will be the most intense storm EVER, as measured by barometric pressure, to have occurred north of North Carolina.
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But there will still be some who don't take it seriously, as hard as that is to believe. "Just a little rain..." 🙄 Much more than that to the families of those lost!
 
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