[ds968]

All of our members back east ok ? ( well, as " ok " as can be under the circumstances ..) And of secondary importance, but still...hopefully no 968s with water damage..

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[Rap]

Both are tucked away in the garage which has no electricity. Power failed this morning at 12:30 and generator kicked on for the house. So we got lucky! Wondering whether I now need to do automatic generator setup in garage. Plumbing may make my choice for me! Hope others in Jersey fared as well.

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[Gotter]

Just bought a house in Norfolk, VA... south of the brunt of the storm, but anxious to see how it held up (haven't moved in yet). 1000 feet from the shore. Should be interesting to see...

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[94SilverCab]

Power went out at 8:30 PM Monday and came back on Tuesday afternoon. About 75% of the people in our area still don't have power and we have been running a B&B. This morning I got out of the house and made it to work, but things probably won't be back to "normal" until next week.



We, and the 968 are all safe...



Jay

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[Cloud9...68]

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About 75% of the people in our area still don't have power and we have been running a B&B.

Jay

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Wow, I didn't realize those cat back's were so versatile <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/biggrin.png" class="smilie" alt="" />



Seriously, I'm glad to hear you're OK

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[flash]

adds a whole now meaning when you hear "under the boardwalk"

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[Darryl]

yeah, but you didn't have to go "down by the sea".......it came to you!



All is well here in VA. We lose power at home regularly for no real reason but it only barely flickered on/off twice during the storm....go figure! Looks like NY and NJ got the worst of the flooding and WV got dumped on with snow. Could have been much worse.



- Darryl

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[rhudeboye]

+1 Darryl



We were making bets on when i power would go out. I had the 12-1 slot. To our surprise, it never did. No damage to our yard or home. Just a bunch of leaves stuck to everything. A friend of mine did have a mature tree (112') fall very close to his house. He told me they could hear all the crackling and branch breaking as it was coming down. When it hit, it shook the whole house. Scarey stuff.

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[blau]

brought the car into the office and left it in the garage there for the duration of the storm.



my wife watched from a window as a ~60 foot tall x 2 foot diameter pine tree fell on the roof of the master bedroom. went up there in the middle of the storm with a chainsaw and cut it apart until it rolled off the roof. it left behind 7 nice sized holes from where tree branches went through the shingles/plywood. amazed it didn't go right into the bedroom. good construction Deck House! anyway, we're getting a new roof, everyone is safe. only lost power during the storm for a few minutes.

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[White968]

968 safe in the parking garage during the storm in my building. We never lost power or our Directv (Large HD Dish). We live on the Hudson River with direct wind. The storm surge covered the southbound tracks in 3' water to NYC on Metro North. My neighborhood fared well and I thought this hurricane was over hyped in my area until I

returned to work and relized that it was a war zone everywhere else. No Joke....and the gas crisis!

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[Rap]

Having been in a flood 40 years ago you can't imagine what awaits all these folks. I listened to Obama say on tv no red tape and the bureaucracy will not be allowed to get in the way of helping people and thought Rommney should use this in an ad! Last year we had a bad flood here, some areas are just getting FEMA money. Remember shovel ready jobs? In these situations, nothing and I mean nothing happens in the time frame that people report, hope for or expect. My heart goes out to these folks with winter right around the corner. A lot of folks will suffer for some time before any sense of normalcy returns , if ever to their lives.

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[rl968]

I'm in central nj, and we took a direct hit, massive winds. Just got power back today. Roads are still blocked all over and gas lines are long in places. Its slowly getting better, but normal is very far away.



Heading to a DE tomorrow in Millville. My advice to anyone out there, get a generator, and a bigger one. I have a small one, but it couldn't run my well pump, heat or fridge, just tv and some lights. When this passes, a bigger unit and transfer switch is in my future.

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[Rap]

I cancelled out of Millville. It's still going on? The number of attendee's has sure dropped. Wasn't that area affected and is gas available? I sort of thought it wasn't a good idea, all things considered, to go. I'm not criticizing just surprised.

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[94SilverCab]

Going on 110 hours since Sandy made landfall,. Half of the homes in my area still have no power. We are opening our house to friends and neighbors for heat, hot showers and a recharging station. PECO electric continues to tell "everyone" that they will have power by 11 PM, the truth is that they are returning about 1,000 households/hours, so we will probably see outages into next week. There are so many trees down in our area it is unbelievable, but most roads are passable and stores are open. I'm refilling my DD every couple of days (the Porsche is filled and stored), even if I only need 5 gallons, We're expecting a cold weekend, and the chance of another Nor'easter on Wednesday (not nearly as bad as Sandy).



Jay

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[robbgerard]

Sorry to hear some of you are still without power. Being in an area (DC) run by PEPCO, I know how it feels to go 3-7 days without power, which happens here 1-3 times/year. I was prepped with ice in the freezer, food + coleman stove, flashlights, water, beer + wine, and other essentials. Amazingly, like Darrly's place the power flickered here a couple times but never ended up going out. I was expecting more but Sandy largely dodged us to the north.



Oblivious to the destruction being wrought in NY, NJ, etc. at the time, I spent a great night in my garage with the garage door open, drinking beer, doing some work on the 968, listening to RUSH and experiencing the storm as it blasted branches and other debris through the neighbourhood.



I got lucky this time - but I definitely feel for you guys and all those affected. Hang in there! Refreshing to see people like Jay helping out and communities coming together.

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[JWahlsten]

It was an interesting time for sure. It was a pretty wicked blow here. The wind was strong enough to shake the structure of my house enough to blow stuff off of the walls in the garage... Luckily, I only had minor damage to the house, but have some co-workers with some pretty major repairs to undertake. We lost power for a few days, and got our internet back yesterday. Sandy was not nice to our friends on the Shore, however. We know some people that no longer have homes, and the Boardwalk is gone ( the roller coaster is in the ocean).



My office got power back only yesterday... This was on Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst. So, you can imagine the destruction wrought in order to take down a military base for a week. Our phone switch was utterly destroyed, and we were lucky not to have a larger fire in the building.



Lesson learned: I am getting a generator and putting in a transfer switch. I'm glad I have a great neighbor who allowed me to plug a cord into his generator until I could borrow one from a friend who didn't need his.

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[flash]

get used to it. the ocean currents are changing due to the warmer water and melting of the ice caps, especially in the atlantic. bigger storms will be the increasing "norm". it's not science fiction.

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[Cloud9...68]

Isn't that what a lot of people said after Katrina, which was seven years ago? Overall, until Sandy, the number and severity of hurricanes has actually been relatively mild recently. Not saying it's not possible, but I'm skeptical that there's a direct connection between "man-made climate change" and specific weather events.

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[flash]

i think you need to do some more reading on that. the number of storms, size, frequency, and severity has dramatically changed over the last decade. they are also now happening at times they never did.



nobody is arguing that the planet has not undergone swings in temperature before. it has. the issue is that the swing going on now is more abrupt and much easier to plot in correlation with specific events.



i remember when i was growing up, that there used to be a storm or two every year, and once in a while a hurricane hit land, but it was huge news when it did, and rarely resulted in any real damage. now, we see 3 or 4 a year, and with more and more of them being devastating. i remember the snows of kilimanjaro that are now gone forever. i remember the rarity of 100+ temps. now we have weeks of them, with people thinking that is "normal". i remember when it was rare than a ski resort had to use man-made snow, and you knew the few who did, and laughed at them for being "fake". now, they almost all do, and not just to get a jump or extend the season. they are doing it in december and january.



it is very easy to see how this is happening and why. it still stuns me how many people refuse to believe it has anything to do with us. i find that those people are also frequently still are stuck in the 50s in their way of thinking, and that we can continue to go on the way we have without consequence.



the caps are melting, and the ocean currents, which are what dictate weather patterns, are shifting. there is no denying that. the results are going to be more dramatic weather. just look at the size of the storms we are having, and how much area they cover. they are no longer the 50-100 mile wide storms that we used to have. now they are huge, and cover hundreds of miles.



perhaps it's because i have always been one of those to be close to nature, and as a result, more attentive and aware when it comes to changes. perhaps it's also because when it gets to 80 degrees, i get incredibly uncomfortable and even ill, so now i am more aware of the changes in temp. perhaps it's just because of who i know that i get to do a lot of reading of material that most people don't even get access to, because fox news won't show it, and the government doesn't want to release it to you.



the bottom line is that we brought this on ourselves, purely because we thought it was too expensive or inconvenient to make the needed changes in our way of life. we will suffer the consequences. we will see more major changes in our lifetime. it's no longer something that wasn't going to affect us, and was a long way off. we will see huge changes within the next 10 years.



here are a couple of disturbing graphs:

   

   

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[White968]

Scary!

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