I Hate Sandy!!!

Yeah, I've thought about stuff like that. All you knew was that the weather was bad, and kept getting worse until it was too late. Even half a century ago - before weather satellites - you didn't get much warning. I know people who lived through the 1962 Nor'Easter on Long Beach Island in New Jersey, where I vacationed when I was a kid, and met many others when I worked there as a teen; not fun at all.

Right now it's the Weather Channel, me and my nerves while the family is sleeping. The first high tide here is at about 3pm. When we get up tomorrow we'll put our getaway stuff in the cars and wait. I'll be walking to the river every half hour or so starting at about 11am; when the house behind us has water in their front yard my family will leave (we're staying with friends about two miles away), I'll park my car at the top of the street and watch. Not that it will do any good, I just have to know the worst as it happens.
 
I just took a drive about. The marina and beach parking lots are awash. The water is about four feet from the top of the bridge that separates G'wich and Port Chester; usually it's more than ten. The river is about a foot from over-topping its banks. The cars are loaded and I walk over to the river every 20 minutes or so. When it overflows its banks, the family will leave and I'll hang tight for a while.

I don't know if I'll be able to write again today.

Peace,

Bob
 
I just took the family to a friends house. I'm hanging in until the last minute. The river still has a foot or so to go, and high tide has just passed, so I've got a little time yet. The wind is really starting to howl!!!

Mostly I'm waiting as long as I can before shutting off the circuit breakers in the house so we can try to avoid losing all the food in the fridge/freezer - and, of course, I am a little crazy. Plus, as I said, I want to know the worst.

Long Beach Island, NJ - my vacation haunt - is being really hard hit; the surf has over-topped the dunes in quite a few places, and there is apparently extensive flooding there.

Can you believe it's snowing hard in Rhode Island?

Well, time for another walk to the river. I'll give another update if possible.

Peace,

Bob
 
be careful driving under trees through that wind... a few months back, high winds up here in Ohio, snapped a branch above us, came down on the windshield and almost killed me and my pregnant wife... only a few seconds longer and it would have.


Good came from it though, the insurance money got us a better car, safer, better on gas, AND we had money left over.

We're gettin some wind from Sandy and were gonna move today, but we're both too scared to be underneath trees in the wind now, lol
 
So far so good. I still have power - most of the town doesn't, including the friends where my family is staying. Lots of trees down, and a few houses in the neighborhood have lost roofing tiles.

I'm sweating out the next three or so hours when we get the next high tide. NYC is flooded worse than it has been in Bog knows how long, so I'm still very worried. Fortunately no major rainfall which is what usually floods my neighborhood.

And I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid; I'll be bailing out at the first sign of high water. I hope that, if it does come, my sandbagging, etc. will keep it at bay.

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and prayers.

Fingers crossed......


Peace,

Bob
 
Been watching it all day, thoughts are with all those in the affected areas

Stay safe Alcove and everyone else in the area
 
Staten Island, lower Manhattan, and parts of Brooklyn hit hard and lots of power outages. In in a safe inland area of Queens. But, I'm still worried about my car being left in a parking spot in the street. I will check on it tomorrow.
 
Just back from Cuba. Last thursday was a pretty epic night. Hopefully the vast majority of people have managed to get somehwere where they can enjoy this breathtaking force of nature safely. Sympathies to those whose homes and business are effected.
 
I'm back!!!

The power went out here at about 11pm on Monday. I held out until about 12:30, which was supposedly after high tide. The river never even made it into the street. We didn't get any rain to speak of, which is probably why we stayed dry.

The power came on here at about 1:30pm today (Wednesday). I spent yesterday taking down all of the sand bags and raking leaves, which sounds dumb, but I we didn't want to track all of that back into the basement when we moved my daughter and her S.O. back into the basement. I moved all of my studio gear back down this morning, and will spend the rest of the week wiring it all back up.

Lots of local damage, mostly downed trees, but some bad local flooding along the coastline. Nothing as bad as New Jersey and some parts of New York, but bad enough. I lost a facing over my back door, and some other minor wind-related damage; about half a day of repairs. Schools are closed until Monday, and Halloween has been postponed until next week.

So all in all we came out just fine apart from inconveniences.

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers, I'm sure that they helped. Keep saying your prayers for those who were so badly hit.

Peace,

Bob
 
Well, I've finally got the studio put back together and tested. What a PITA, but at least it's better than when it was literally hundreds of feet of cables back in the analog days; I would dread having to deal with a large console once every year. Hey, at least the studio gets a good cleaning once a year. :lol:

About 30% of the town is still without power. The police, fire dept. and DPW are doing a super job. So are the debris and power crews, considering the amount of damage. Schools are still out; we either lose April vacation or school stays in session until July 4th; they haven't decided yet.

I've been seeing lots of pictures of my old summertime haunt, Long Beach Island, NJ. Incredible amounts of flooding and destruction. I always feel for people in that position, especially after going through it myself in '07, but it just seems to hit home a little more when you know the place well. I also know lower Manhattan, and it will be a while before I get back down there as well. And Staten Island; wow!!!

Now we're expecting a Nor'easter on Wednesday. Bog help us!!! I may sandbag, just to be on the safe side.:(
 
Glad you weren't hit too bad. And yeah, better be safe than sorry. I'm guessing all your equipment is insured but still...

Stay safe and keep us updated!
 
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