Hurricane Sandy landfall

Elliott, sorry to hear to hear your family got hit by all this. It's a familiar part of the world for us, too.

My own town got blacked out so I moved back to my daughter's place. It could be much worse than just cold and waiting for power. I feel really bad for the areas that actually flooded, washed away, people got hurt.

The biggest remaining problem out here is getting gasoline. We made it back on fumes last night. :) Police are all over the few stations that are still pumping. No sense letting trouble get started.
 
Thanks Ted and Esav. Appreciate the good thoughts. Fortunately we have a lot of family in that general area and they are pulling together to help one another out.
 
I like to think for the most part people pull together in times like this, I'm used to this kinda thing so like always as soon as it was safer to go out, I grabbed the chainsaw and some extra gas and threw it in the truck, told my wife I was gonna see if I could find somewhere to get coffee, (luckily I boiled some water and made some instant on the Coleman stove before I left) 5 hours later and about a dozen trees cleared from various roads and I was back home.

Spent the last 5 days runnin' around checkin' on friends also without power and feedin' the fireplace to keep warm. 1 friends house was 35 degrees last night, yea fdr the most part people pull together then I see stuff like with the gas stations and I wonder about us, sometimes.
 
I saw this on the news this morning.

Utility workers pelted with eggs after Bridgeport, Conn. Angry residents pelted utility crews with eggs as they tried to restore power ... after the mayor claimed the local power company had shortchanged the state's largest city as it tries to recover from superstorm Sandy.

"Life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid."
 
UffDa said:
Utility workers pelted with eggs after Bridgeport, Conn. Angry residents pelted utility crews with eggs as they tried to restore power ... after the mayor claimed the local power company had shortchanged the state's largest city as it tries to recover from superstorm Sandy.

"Life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid."
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The power company wasn't stupid though. Pulled the crews until the mayor provided police protection.
 
RE: the gas shortage. John Stossel has an opinion on that. Without getting political, shortages occur when politicians interfere with the market.
Apparently, there are laws and rules regarding who the dealers can buy fuel from and how much they can charge.
 
RE: the gas shortage. John Stossel has an opinion on that. Without getting political, shortages occur when politicians interfere with the market.
Apparently, there are laws and rules regarding who the dealers can buy fuel from and how much they can charge.
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Without getting political, John Stossel's opinions (over the years) seem to be as firmly grounded as a weather vane during a nor'easter. :rolleyes:
 
mete said:
Remember , this could be THE BIG ONE , LOL,LOL !

We got our revenge the time when a hurricane went up the coast made a little loop and continued north !! The weather people freeked out -they can't do that !! Well it did ! I no longer pay any attention !
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Are you & the other naysayers from this thread paying attention now???
 
I just got a call ... my neighborhood has power again. It took long enough! :)

I hope the rest don't have to wait much longer.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
I just got a call ... my neighborhood has power again. It took long enough! :)

I hope the rest don't have to wait much longer.
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Down here they prioritize by population density and then by difficulty of repairs necessary to get the power flowing again, trying to strike a balance to get the most people power in the quickest time possible. I've never gone longer than a week without though have had friends in more rural areas go nearly a month. Pretty tough in the middle of a south Florida summer as well as, I imagine, a northeastern winter.

Glad to hear you came through it alright.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Why the hell would you pelt the power company workers with eggs? Stupidity knows no bounds.
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Why do folks throw bottles and fire shots at firemen putting out fires? (Not even talking about what happened during this current event. The capacity for human wretchedness is apparently boundless.)
 
Throwin' eggs at the guys tryin' to get yer power back on is akin to insultin' the people in the restaurant who handle yer food... :O
 
Blues said:
Without getting political, John Stossel's opinions (over the years) seem to be as firmly grounded as a weather vane during a nor'easter. :rolleyes:
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You may be right about Stossel's opinions, but in this case, he may be right. Bring gasoline in and to hell with regulations during a disaster.

I'm sorry about your SIL's home. Is the damage covered by their homeowner's policy? I heard a discussion of homeowner's insurance this morning and how important is is to know
what is covered BEFORE a disaster.
 
UffDa said:
You may be right about Stossel's opinions, but in this case, he may be right. Bring gasoline in and to hell with regulations during a disaster.

I'm sorry about your SIL's home. Is the damage covered by their homeowner's policy? I heard a discussion of homeowner's insurance this morning and how important is is to know
what is covered BEFORE a disaster.
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Thanks for your thoughts. As far as I know, without prying or meddling too much, they appear to have had the proper coverages. It is definitely a slippery slope when dealing with insurance and even in the past when I've tried to study what "flood insurance" covers vs. a typical HO-3 Home Owner's Policy with riders, it's still as clear as mud.

There are enough weasel worded loopholes to make anyone in their right mind wonder if they are fully covered.
 
Blues said:
There are enough weasel worded loopholes to make anyone in their right mind wonder if they are fully covered.
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People should be throwing eggs at the insurance company offices. Not the adjusters out looking at the damage, they go through enough hell.
 
On top of everything that's happened a slow moving Nor’easter is heading this way.

By Wednesday morning, the storm will move into the New Jersey coastline with strong onshore wind gusts of more than 50 miles per hour and waves measuring 10 to 20 feet high. The storm could bring 2 to 4 inches of rainfall in the area as it makes its way into the New England area Thursday.
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JTR357 said:
I hope mines the same as Esav's luck.I lost power about 10min ago.
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Yeah I wish :rolleyes:

I just got my power on after NINE DAYS.I AM thankful no one in my neighborhood was injured.

There was a lot of property damage.
Here' are some pics I took the day after.It's all within a two block radius of my house in north Rahway,NJ.

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My sympathies go out to all those affected by this storm.At the most I was inconvenienced,but at least I have a home to come home to.A lot of people don't have that.
 
Mick57, Don't build your house on a tiny spit of sand !! We were out of power 2 days, had 1" of rain.I'm next to a river but 20' above highest flood level ! Crying 'the big one ' all the time has already gotten the weather reporters in trouble - people stop believing them.

I hope someone writes a book contrasting Giuliani and 9/11 to Bloomberg and Sandy.Sandy showed Bloomberg was incompetant ,along with Fema.Imagine wanting to have the NYC Marathon in a major hurricane !
 
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