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How is everyone today? I hope you all made it through last night. hugs and good wishes aren’t really enough, but all I can do over the internet. I’m in Toronto and my area was windy and rainy but no loss of power.
Take care everyone.
Life is beautiful.
In New Jersey, my house and our cars survived the storm, and the most that happened was our tallest tree in the front yard snapped, fell, and took up the street. (We are so thankful that it didn’t fall on our house instead! From where it’s located in the yard, it would’ve hit our living room – which was where my family and pets were!) Unfortunately our neighbors weren’t so lucky. There are so many cars and horses that got destroyed from all the fallen trees, power lines, and telephone lines. I believe my entire town has lost power and we have road blocks everywhere because of them. The winds were so crazy, my brother and his neighbors that live two minutes away saw a grill fall from the sky and crash in between their yards! They don’t even know where it came from! It doesn’t belong to anyone on their street. And there were quite a number of fires -one being across the lake from my brother’s house. He felt horrible because there was nothing he could do but call the police. And our friends that live near the coast had to be evacuated because their homes are under water. 🙁 I can’t get over how bad this hurricane turned out to be! I am so thankful that my friends and family are at least safe. They said that everyone in our county should start getting our power back in about 7-10 days. And in the meantime, they’re already starting to clean up the streets, so I’m relieved that it’s only going to get better from here…
How about everyone else? Is everyone okay???
In New Jersey, my house and our cars survived the storm, and the most that happened was our tallest tree in the front yard snapped, fell, and took up the street. (We are so thankful that it didn’t fall on our house instead! From where it’s located in the yard, it would’ve hit our living room – which was where my family and pets were!) Unfortunately our neighbors weren’t so lucky. There are so many cars and horses that got destroyed from all the fallen trees, power lines, and telephone lines. I believe my entire town has lost power and we have road blocks everywhere because of them. The winds were so crazy, my brother and his neighbors that live two minutes away saw a grill fall from the sky and crash in between their yards! They don’t even know where it came from! It doesn’t belong to anyone on their street. And there were quite a number of fires -one being across the lake from my brother’s house. He felt horrible because there was nothing he could do but call the police. And our friends that live near the coast had to be evacuated because their homes are under water. 🙁 I can’t get over how bad this hurricane turned out to be! I am so thankful that my friends and family are at least safe. They said that everyone in our county should start getting our power back in about 7-10 days. And in the meantime, they’re already starting to clean up the streets, so I’m relieved that it’s only going to get better from here…
How about everyone else? Is everyone okay???
Your town sounds like our community in Southern Maryland after a freak windstorm last summer. Trees and wires everywhere and the power out for over a week. You will get through it 🙂 and maybe you will be luckier next time, as we were this time.
I think that our street here in Southbridge, MA is the only street that was lucky enough to maintain power.
We are very grateful to be so lucky. There is utter carnage in NY, and New Jersey.
We still have Bands of Rain that will continue on through the rest of the week.
here is a link to a horrific slide-show:
http://www.wcvb.com/weather/-/9850416/17187380/-/39ociu/-/index.htmlhttp://www.wcvb.com/weather/-/9850416/17189580/-/39prq4/-/index.html
I’m glad I do not live on the east coast. My thoughts and prayers are with all the people who do, and I hope that they can recover quickly. Although from what I’ve seen on the news it looks very bad.
Puffpastryofdoom, I am glad you can through unscathed.
Here the Roanoke VA. valley we got a whole lot of wind and many of my coworkers are without power. But we didn’t see the snow we expected. All safe and accounted for here. Prayers going out to those more north of where I am!
I’m just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Right now it’s thundering, lightning, and…SNOWING!? Schools are already closed for tomorrow and we’ve been warned to make sure we have enough water and food in our homes for at least three days. Walmart was a madhouse this afternoon!
It’s been warned that we may lose power too for a while, so I hope Susie doesn’t put anything cool in the store this week! I’m going to wrap up a few of my more beloved Windstones and other breakables, just in case, and make sure I have lots of candles and board games handy.Stay safe and warm!! <3
Our power is out too! -and we are on the west coast. Anyway, so nothing new getting put in the store at the moment.
The storm stayed completely uneventful at my place, which I expected (I live in a sheltered valley, very little rain was expected for me, and the winds were even less than what was predicted, maybe 45mph gusts tops?). I do have friends who are displaced/out of power/phones, some report relatives who have lost EVERYTHING. 🙁 I’m still waiting to hear on the situations for a few who won’t be back to check on their homes for a bit. A classmate and her husband stayed inland in NJ with relatives for safety. No power, but they live on Staten Island, so not sure how well their home fared. While I know I joked about the storm (everyone panicking in areas that were least likely to be affected or only experience minor inconveniences, like power out for a day, loss of cable/internet), because we get things like that up my way all the time (people freak out every time, but weather happens) and am awed by some of the neat things in the weather here (clouds going the opposite direction of what we normally see, etc.), a fine blustery autumn day for us, and jokes about the NYC subway with some friends, the storm really did a number in a lot of areas and is one for the record books. It will take a lot of time to recover. Lots of people still unaccounted for due to the communications infrastructure being partially/wholly down and damage from wind/water/fire.
I honestly do not expect to see the subways up and running as soon as they say. The tunnels need to be dried, all electrical and cars checked out, all rails cleaned (salt water is corrosive), fix any damage. All 7 rail tunnels were under water and there are over 400 subway stations. That is a lot to check out and that doesn’t even count the PATH trains and other rail services in the NYC Metro/NJ/LI area! The rats in those tunnels also have to end up somewhere until their usual homes dry out as well.
I think I’m also surprised at how many people in areas that were likely to be majorly affected didn’t take a lot of stock in the storm, didn’t prepare, or worse thought ‘we’d never see anything like this here’. I think the one thing that has me angry is the mayor of Atlantic City really did a disservice to his citizens by not pushing evacuations in areas expecting flooding and telling people that it was ok to just use the shelters rather than evacuate. Hopefully no one was killed because of that information, but what if they were? What accountability if that happens?
After the flooding from Irene that hit my brother’s area (Southern Tier of NY/Northern PA, VT, and just south of me in the Catskills), how will these people fare with support? Some places, like Schoharie, NY have not even come close to recovery and FEMA and insurance companies have done far less than what they promised. This disaster covers a larger area and the financial costs are even higher. Will they fare better or worse? After Katrina and Irene, I’m don’t think the answer will be very pretty. 🙁
I actually found a really good site posting photos of the storm/aftermath, out of the UK no less! This was from yesterday and the death toll has gone up. I’m familiar with some of those places and the damage/flooding is just ‘wow’.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2225108/Hurricane-Sandy-2012-Obama-declares-major-disaster-New-York-39-people-die-Superstorm.htmlthose are the best pictures I’ve seen so far. They’re accurate and truly show the damage and destruction caused by this storm.
There’s an amazing number of fake ‘freak out’ pictures on various sites designed to just cause panic. Thanks for the link. I hope the people in those regions are able to find some warm shelter, and that cleanup isnt hindered by further difficulties.
Down where I’m at all we’ve seen is light rain and a temp drop. Ky gets buffered from most of that stuff by the Appalachian mountain range.
No problem Purplecat. A lot of sites have limited photos, so finding that was a bit of a surprise, considering it wasn’t even a site for a US newspaper! If I find more, I’ll post them as I find them, or if I hear of any ways people out of the area can help. While the Red Cross and the like do a lot of good, the money doesn’t go where you want it to go to the relief effort you think it might.
For anyone interested in keeping track of the NYC subway tunnels, three of the 7 tunnels that were flooded have been pumped out:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/10/how-bad-nyc-subway-really-bad/58527/The latest map of what is running/what isn’t is here:
http://www.mta.info/sites/default/files/pdf/HurricaneRecoveryMapOct312012.pdfGives an idea of just how much is down subway-wise. Considering how many people do not own cars in NYC, it’s a substantial grind, not to mention power is out below 39th Street, and if the subways/PATH trains stay down for an extended period of time, many on meager incomes can’t afford taxis to get everywhere, and buses aren’t always an option.
The NYDailyNews has also been posting photos and has some different ones.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/hurricane-sandy-strikes-east-coast-gallery-1.1194577We feel so very bad for y’all.We DO understand.Stay strong,get help and get warm.It’s not over sadly to say.Be safe
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