Went back out to Sag Harbor today and my house and BiggestRed are just fine, lost 1/2 dozen trees and that's it. Here's my trees.... Not so good in Jamesport for my daughters community....
Glad to hear you guys are ok. Ive been watching this thread very closely! If anybody knows of any other east coast members whom they havent heard from, please shoot them an email or pm or whatever and check on them. Its the least we all can do.
We are all ok here in NEPA, talked to a few other board members from my area, everyone is fine. Glad to hear everybody else made it through ok. Louie
Hope you fared well George. And to all the others that I know the names but havnt met My prayers are with you that your safe and sound and intact
No problems for me in Worcester, but the tree right outside my office window in Hudson broke in half. No damage to the building or anything else from it. I would guess that the damage we got around here from both the ice storm a few years ago and the pre Halloween snow we got last year eliminated a lot of the weaker branches and trees.
I just spoke with Bruno. He has no electrical power, like 90% of Long Island, but everyone is fine. No structural damage. Bruno still has his sense of humor though. I asked him if he had power, and he said, "Come on over here and I'll show you some power, 9 second Buick Power":laugh:
A ok here.We are one of the few homes in my subdivision that has electricity.My neighborhood looks like a war zone.We have a neighbor whose home was struck by a tree in last years storm only to have it happen again now.We have a few main roads that run long the water that now have boats parked on them.They devastation on the coast here is unfathomable.
Nick you need anything? I still owe you after the t shirts you made for me at BPG. Got a lot of compliments at BG with it, may have to make some for :Brow:
One of the guys who works for us lives on an inlet in Massapequa Long Island and when Great South Bay flooded their house somehow the heating oil in the basement tank escaped and flowed throughout the house and into the walls and floors, also out onto their property. When the insurance guy came he told them to take anything they want to keep and then call the fire department because they now have a very dangerous situation and the house will most likely be condemed and have to be torn down. Another guy who works for us lost a life long friend on 166th st. in Flushing when a giant tree fell on his parents house and killed him. He was sleeping in his room in the attic. We have some freinds who lost a house to the massave fire on Breezy Point Queens. This fire burnt over 100 homes to the ground. When the firefighters arrived the fire hydrants were under 3 feet of water and couldn't be found. They then tried to pump water from the sea and kept sucking debre into the hoses which rendered them useless. We still have millions of people without power in NYC and Long Island and the cell phones only work intermitantly. This is a friggin' horror show...but we will get past this....we are New Yaaawkers !!!
Am I the only one who sees the photos and the videos from Jersey and thinks it Katrina all over again? In my mind I have a hard time telling the two apart based just on the damages shown so far. On a side note, has anyone heard the stuff Oliver Stone said about the storm? It's odd how he's not getting dragged through the streets right now, but if Charlton Heston or some other notable republican said it it would be a much bigger story.
Some believe these type of storms will become more common in the future: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/31/us/sandy-climate-change/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
In the past few years, insurance companies have been dropping Long Islanders citing that very reason. They said N.Y. was due to get hit. I remember some of my coworkers complaining about it.. Glad I don't have to deal with that.
Yup, but as has been said before - size matters. Sandy was/is the largest storm in diameter ever seen on the east coast.
No question about size but I have been through a couple of CAT 3s and they mowed us down 100-150 miles inland. Hazel, for example, came in on the coast at Myrtle Beach with 140 mph windsat a CAT 4 and by the time it traveled all the way to Raleigh (100-150 miles) it was still a strong CAT 3. By comparsion it completely submerged our coastal islands. The only couple to survive went out the tallest structure's upper floor window on a matress because the storm surge was that high. The next morning when the island reappeared the matress was stuck in the top of a tree. You can read about the couple's survival and Hazel here:http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2004-09-29-hazel_x.htm
Wind broke several telephone poles here in Central Jersey :shock: trees and street signs are down all over the place. Sure glad I don't live near the water.
Moon my company does all environmental clean-ups. If your worker needs help let me know. My boss works with all the insurance companies etc. we specialize in oil contamination clean-ups.
