BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: gnu
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 03:34 PM

"Now does anyone want to talk about global warming?"

Where were you before The Saxby Gale?

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Penny S.
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 03:12 PM

I see that someone has associated the storm with religion.

I was thinking idly earlier that the storms seem to afflict areas not approved of by the Biblically attached folk. And then I wondered why the people who live in areas likely to suffer from "Acts of God" tend to be more liberal than the lot mid continent. 'Cos those storms and quakes have been around much longer than the politics. Sort of reverse of no atheists in the trenches. Odd.

Or why does God send snows and tornadoes to the Bible belt.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: MMario
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 02:08 PM

katlaughing;

The "noname" storm ten years ago left Cape Cod in a lot worse shape then what people in my family have been reporting. My grandmother's house was completly surrounded by the tidal surge in that storm; this one didn't even flood the ground level room.

Some flooding on my parent's property, not as much as some "normal" moon tides have given. None of the three households in my immediate family on the Cape reported power outages...
so it looks like Cape cod got off pretty easy.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: maeve
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 02:02 PM

A current, broad satellite view of the storm system:
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/data/satellite/goes_enam_1070_100.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: billybob
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 01:56 PM

Hi Dani, Billy grew up in Pensauken,he has two sisters still there, no power but no damage as they have generaters to pump out the basement, his fourth sister lives in Berlin , we havent heard from her yet!
My brother in law in Cinnaminsin( Fork Landing) got up and went to the office this morning!! Did I say stay home Ronnie!!
Wendy
By the way their summer houses at Wildwood Crest are ok according to neighbours.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: maeve
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 01:48 PM

Stay alert, folks in the general storm region. We're getting more severe rain, wind, thunder and lightning than we had during the storm. Remember that tree roots can loosen within the waterlogged soil, damaged trees and limbs can shake loose, flooding continues...even in mildly affected areas like ours in Maine. Please use extra care when using chainsaws to clear away felled trees. Suddenly released trunks and branches can kill.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 01:06 PM

Prayers and thoughts from me, hoping you all stay safe over there.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 12:55 PM

I suspect the Republicans are regretting the decision to bet the farm on denying that there was anything to worry about in talk about climate change.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: JJ
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 12:55 PM

On Morningside Heights, just south of Columbia University in Manhattan, we didn't even lose power. But in some places in this area, it's about as bad as it gets.

Hope it's not that way for any of you, who may be getting much more rain than hit us. The sister of a friend in Charleston, WV, has two feet of snow.

The New Jersey shore has been wiped out as surely as if it had been carpet bombed. Storm surge obliterated Atlantic City and drove rail cars onto the NJ Turnpike near Newark.

Lower Manhattan was flooded by three feet of water at the Battery -- that's where the Staten Island and Statue of Liberty Ferries are -- extending northward at least through the uptown border of Battery Park and sending 11.5 feet of salt water into the entrance of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, which looked like a waterslide.

Manhattan lost almost all power below 42nd St., river to river. Our friends who live a block from the Hudson could see it coming up 41st St. and expected to lose power imminently, but did not.

The Lincoln Tunnel remained open through it all, but the bridges were shut down, as were the Queens-Midtown and Holland Tunnels, after they began to flood. The bridges reopened at noon.

Buses will start running soon, free on limited routes, but no one knows when the subways will reopen. Five days, maybe? On a normal day, they pump out around 15 million gallons of water from the subway tunnels. But the pumps were never made for this. The subway tunnels under the East River have four feet of salt water in them, and that's corrosive.

For the City of New York, this is an unprecedented disaster. Deaths, thank heaven, are currently very low. But five million people use subways, buses and trains to come to work here every day, and almost none of these are running.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Stringsinger
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 12:15 PM

Now does anyone want to talk about global warming? Scientists have already predicted unprecedented storms but the deniers still want to call it a fraud. How many storms will it take?

Red Hook in Brooklyn is under water with reported oil slick in the streets.

When is the public going to call the oil and gas companies to account for ruining the planet?

If Romney gets in, we will see more ravages of nature.

Let's see if he can stop the seas from rising. Caring about "families" is a joke.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: maeve
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 11:24 AM

Thank you, Bill.

Very strong wind, rain, thunder, and expected hail in our region right now.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 10:46 AM

Raps wife & her mother are only about 15 min. from me... I expect they are ok.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: maeve
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 10:36 AM

Apparent levee break in New Jersey: (advertisement alert, sorry)

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/superstorm-sandy-levee-breach-jersey-2012-hurricane-17596783

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Beer
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 10:18 AM

Very little rain last night and the winds were nothing to speak of.
Today the sun is shining. Very lucky I guess.
Ad.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: maeve
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 10:08 AM

We're fine in Midcoast Maine. Truelove used a chainsaw to clear away one "widow-maker" balsam fir; thunderstorms moving through now. Cumberland County, Maine has trees down. A neighbor is stranded in Maryland.

As Bill said; thinking of those in harm's way.

Rap- Are your wife and her mother safe this morning??

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 09:58 AM

Only a couple of flickering of the lights here in Silver Spring, MD. It's VERY wet here, but we are all ok. There were many 'incidents' with trees down & flooding in spots, but the major parts of the storm sorta curled around us.

Feeling very sad for those who got it worse.

Subject: Stormy times for Jez Lowe & the Bothy!
From: GUEST,Les B
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 09:22 AM

Hurricane Sandy has stranded Jez in N.Y. So he won't be able to do his gig at the Bothy Southport this Friday (2-11-12).
However the fabulous up & coming band Pilgrims Way have stepped into the breach at short notice.
Our thoughts are with Jez & all of the people suffering at the hands of mother nature.
Cheers
Les

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Elmore
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 09:21 AM

Lost power 4 to 9 p.m. here in New Hampshire. We are not on the coast. Then we watched tv to see what less fortunate people had to endure.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 08:12 AM

All's well here. Never lost power. No downed trees anywhere. Amazing. It was a wild night.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 07:57 AM

Never even lost power in this part of Midcoast Maine. Just a typical gale from what we heard last night. About 80,000 homes lost power in the State, mostly in Southern Maine.

My brother's family in Brooklyn had a more eventful night.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 07:42 AM

Wendy, I never heard of anyone else from Cinnaminson! Talked late last night with friends in Palmyra (next door) and they were waiting for the Delaware to crest.

Sending warm thoughts to all waking up, cold, to a very big mess : (

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Raptor
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 07:08 AM

Fox News just reported that God sent sandy because he is mad at Obama.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: gnu
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 06:55 AM

I said 'nasty' earlier but that don't cut the grass now. Just watching CNN. The snow, the flooding, the wind... 32.5' waves on top of the surge in NY harbour. Frightening stuff.

Bobad... that video is definitely dramatic!

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: billybob
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 04:48 AM

watching on CNN most of the night here in the UK. Hoping my two sisters in laws beach houses are safe in Wildwood. My brother in law in Cinnamincin drove upstate yesterday to get a generator to pump out his daughters basement, he is 75! Was gone most of the day, when he came home his wife made him some soup and told him to rest up, when she came back from the kitchen he had snuck out again! Men!! Stay home Ronnie!
Keeping everyone in our prayers, hope this morning you are all safe.
Wendy xx

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 03:57 AM

I woke up to a photo of the storm at6 the beach at Maryland on the front page of my local paper - where is Severn, has anyone heard from him?
Thinking of all of you in the path, + very impressed with BatG's story of previous experiences

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Oct 12 - 03:28 AM

couldn't sleep thinking of everyone including my daughter and grandsons. they are in groton, ct, but are okay, so far. i saw some tragic photos of dowtown Mystic and Stonington Borough. no news on the seaport when i checked at www.stonington.patch.com

anyone heard anything about cape cod? Night Owl and her 102 yr old mom are there.


May all our friends and loved ones be safe.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: bobad
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 10:42 PM

Dramatic video of an explosion at a ConEd power station at 14th. and Avenue D in Manhattan leaving a large part of the city in darkness.

http://johnherrman.tumblr.com/post/34609401243/a-massive-explosion-at-the-coned-power-station

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: maeve
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 10:29 PM

Some photos: Click on the picture of the Ground Zero site to see 50+ photographs.
http://news.yahoo.com/massive-storm-sandy-crashes-ashore-jersey-001837944--finance.html

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 10:24 PM

Some news station said there's 3 feet of water on the trading floor of the NY Stock Exchange.

I guess this storm will be in the news for a long time.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Beer
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 09:59 PM

Winds and no rain as yet in the southern part of Quebec. This may seem in appropriate at this time, but i hope we get rain. Been a dry summery and all trees need the water before the frost sets in.
Blessings to all our Southern friends who are having way to much of what we need.
Adrien

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Crowhugger
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 09:56 PM

Thinking of all who are worse off that we are and hope you all stay safe! Here it's a lot of wind and not too much rain yet. I heard someone was killed on a west Toronto street by flying debris, so indoors is my continuing plan.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Janie
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 09:50 PM

sister Annie is doing ok in Salisbury MD. not quite 6 inches of rain so far. Winds have been averaging about 30 mph for awhile with gusts up to 55. NOAA predicted sustained winds of 44-45 with gusts to 70 and that hasn't happened so far where she is. She think it is now unlikely. A few more hours and the wind will begin to slowly ease, though not the rain. So far her property has not flooded and she hasn't heard anything really loud hit the house. One of her band mates an hour north in Delaware has lost power. Ocean City is flooded from storm surge. Apparently the coast has or will flood from Norfolk north, on up into lower New England. Deal and Tangier Islands are flooded in the Bay.

She shared a pretty neat website www.windalert.com. (She's a wind and kite surfer.) Click on the US East Coast, then start zooming in on your region of interest. The arrows are wind meters. Hover over for the location for name. Click for a detailed graph. Real time wind readings and detailed graphs as you figure out how to navigate the site.

But as the news and weather folks have been saying, it ain't the wind - it's the water.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 09:32 PM

I can't believe it... Dani!!!... Maybe we made out on the beach...

(Down, Bobert, down...)

Remember Ron Jons Surf Shop at the cause-way??? I don't think I was into pictures back then... I was real skinny back then... No, like 6 foot and 120 pounds... Looked okay in a wet suit... We wore wet suits clamming... Sold clams to Kotrell for 1.6 cents a piece... On a good day you'd jump 600 clams up yer leg with clamming boots and make 25 bucks for 3 1/2 hours work...

We'd run the entire island at the way up to the lighthouse... It was real desolate back then... You could drive all the way from Surf City to the lighthouse and not see another car...

I'm rambling...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: maeve
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 09:31 PM

Winds have picked up a right smart. Loud out there now.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 09:22 PM

Oh, Bobert, you got me right in the heart! I've been thinking all day of my beloved LBI. So many good memories of that place. We'll have to trade pictures! My Surf City hat is one of my treasures.

'Barnegat', btw : )

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 08:10 PM

Heard someone reporting from Long Beach Island, NJ and it instantly brought things into focus... My parents were close friends with a family who owned a house on Long Beach Island, NJ... Surf City to be accurate...

Well, I spent a good portion of two summer there after my junior and senior years in high school living "at the shore" in that house... I have fond memories of George's Pizza and the Miniature Gold course and clamming for cash in Barniket (sp) Bay every afternoon...

Oh, and the best part were the chicks... Every week a new batch would come to Long Beach Island... They'd come in on Sunday and be gone the following Saturday... All of us boys who were there for the entire summer were like these beach gods... Life wwas good for us...

Hearing and seeing the pics conjurers up a bunch of memories of much better times then tonight on Long Beach Island, NJ...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: BrendanB
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 05:30 PM

Watching the news in the UK - praying for you all who are having to cope with this. Take care and be safe.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 05:25 PM

Just cold rain here on the Ohio/Pennsylvania border. They're forecasting 60 miles per hour winds between now and 4PM tomorrow. My thoughts go out to you all, the $#@!-reduction candle is started up, and if anybody can get here, we have plenty of crash space. (You Pittsburgh folks aren't that far away, and the weather maps look like it won't go well for you.) Be safe, all of you.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 04:30 PM

I'm fine so far, but many people in RI have already lost power.

Last night I went to bed thinking I was as prepared as I could be. This morning after listening to the news I decided that I probably should heed the advice to pack an emergency evacuation "go" bag, so I did. It's only the second time I've done that since I moved to this condo in late '99. The first time I did it was when sirens (or something) woke me in the middle of the night, I turned on the news, and heard that The Station Night Club a few blocks away was burning. I thought I might have to evacuate, but there was no wind so the fire didn't spread. That was the fire that killed 100 people.

So far I guess Mudcatters are okay--or unable to tell us if they are not. Stay okay, okay?

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 04:28 PM

Raining and blowing like a sumnabich here. Bored already. I think I should go do some music, call Batty to see if she somehow didn't lose power, and leave the internet alone for a bit.
The rain and wind have worked together to the point where what LOOKS like fog is just blown-apart rain.

I could be in a scarier place, and those who ARE have my best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 03:47 PM

Silver Spring is just moderately rainy... so far...I can't imagine we'll get off without SOME more issues, but Ma Nature is whimsical.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Tinker
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 03:41 PM

Winds are definitely picking up.... sounds like a train wooshing down the driveway on the side of the house but this grand ol'house is standing firm. Okay perhaps shedding a few slates......

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 03:37 PM

Sun's out here in Idaho, with a light overcast.

Worrying about my wife and MIL in Silver Spring, MD.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 03:21 PM

Just watching it on the UK news. Good luck over the next few days you guys.
Al.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 03:20 PM

Got a call from my mother down at Georgetown Island. She and a neighbor managed to get her Jitterbug cellphone working again. Maybe it works now because Judy added the crucial "1" to the phone numbers in its memory via the internet and they finally got downloaded.

Still, not a whole lot stirring around here in Midcoast Maine.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 02:59 PM

Wind is starting to really kick up now -- we're about 25 miles from the coast (New Hampshire). Our only concern is downed trees or large branches. I think all the white pines up at the head of the driveway have gone in other storms and I really wish the dead branch of the oak would come down. The tree is at the head of our driveway but it's on our down-the-hill-neighbors' land. We've not had any real problem in 35 or so years, but we ARE in the middle of the woods. Just over the crest of a hill, much higher elevation than coastal NH.

The hill is why we don't have non-existant cell service, even from upstairs or at the head of the driveway or even up the hill -- and why before cable we only got 3 TV stations. (But we don't watch TV anyway.) Not a problem -- can usually get service if we drive up to Rte. 152. Heading the other way, we usually end up down at McDonald's at the Circle or the parking lot at Market Basket.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 02:53 PM

Power's out here. Will probably save the computer's batteries.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: gnu
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 02:42 PM

Linn.

There are other ways. You can buy an antenna ($70 or so???) that you can mount on the house or in the highest tree around... now, I ain't sure about the tree but I can't see why not. Then again, I just dunno.

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 02:07 PM

raining here like crazy tomorrow it will hit the great lakes with high winds ... I am pretty far away from NYC but we were told power will go out, hope my trees hold up

Subject: RE: BS: Storm warnings-east coast US ['Sandy']
From: Maryrrf
Date: 29 Oct 12 - 01:49 PM

Here in Richmond, VA the rain is pouring down but the wind doesn't seem too bad and the power is still on. The worst of it here is forecast to be tonight, when the winds will pick up. But we're not on the main path. Hope all of my friends on the east coast are okay - post here if you get a chance.