Hurricane Sandy Check-In

[Seshat]

My county has a curfew. Looting and such is going on.

Gah!

Stay safe. Be careful, okay?

[sms001]

Rob is psyched, his company makes the stuff that Sandy destroyed -

So, literally: "Not the ill wind which blows no man to good."

Glad there's some silver lining in this mess.

[AccountingDrone]

Eastern CT, Canterbury. Power tanked on us at 530. Wind started getting heavy around noonish, but the rain wasn't deadly heavy - more sort of off and on. Tree got peeved at us and dropped a branch on the damned generator. Rob thinks he can fix it. We got power back around 9 last night [1 November] after the messages from CL&P about how nobody should expect much before tuesday! I guess our first selectman must have blackmailed somebody, usually it is the rich corner of the state and Hartford that gets power first, and us poor white trash have to wait until the tail end.

Did our cooking and heating with the wood stove, lit the bedroom with a candle as a night light and spent dark times reading with a non-battery crank charged LED flashlight. Charged my cell with the momvan. Rob is psyched, his company makes the stuff that Sandy destroyed - stuff like the cell tower cables, tunnel repeaters, those dish thingies on cell towers and buildings. They are getting orders for stuff left right and center. He is pretty sure that they won't not need him for a while! [he is currently temp to hire there]

[Zellie Crescent]

Just got power back, you won't believe how many customers came into the store still looking for cold stuff.

[Greenday]

My county has a curfew. Looting and such is going on.

[Docmayhem]

No major damage here, but I'm still without power - like a lot of people in Bucks County.

My generator is working,and the gas station is open,so it could be a lot worse.

I more worried about others who were less prepared.

@DerangedHermit - I grew up in Baldwin, and I remember Gloria very clearly

[TawnyMyst]

Made it home to Alberta and a snow storm, finally getting some flights going out of Toronto. My parents and brothers are still without power in eastern Ontario but starting cleanup around their properties from the wind

[DerangedHermit]

I'm in central LI.

Thankfully, my home is in a good area. 4 miles inland, utilities are underground, and not many trees are around my house. 90% of LI is without power. Whoo, I'm the 10%.

[Taboo]

Well, I chose the best weekend to be out of town. I'm down south of NYC visiting family and we got some flooding in the basement but not much else. Friends back home have 6ft of water outside their apartment and a car floated away down their street this morning. The biggest amount of damage cost wise will probably be all the NYC subway lines and the PATH, LIRR, etc commuter trains, there's a lot of damage from track flooding.

[MoonCat]

It missed most of western NY. Niagara County got hit worse than Erie County, some trees down, etc. I was up until about 2 AM and finally went to bed, expecting to be kept awake by crazy wind, but it didn't even knock the garbage totes over. Just a lot of rain, then today it was drizzly and windy. More rain for the next three days, but we were very lucky up here.

I hope everyone's power comes back on soon and everyone will be OK in areas that were affected worse than we were.

[Greenday]

A convince store opened by me despite not having power. Got two Monsters and their last bag of tostitos. $10 which kind of seems like a ripoff.

[malmalthekiller]

The roads were fine in town, some of the neighboring towns are prone to flooding and did so - but nobody was seriously injured that I know of. Some trees were down as well.

My power went out for an hour and then came back on. I went to work as normal....the roads were pretty empty, though.

[NateTheChops]

Checking in. The wind was nasty and I got soaked, but most of my day consisted of chasing after shopping carts and keeping them from smashing into cars.

[Lachrymose]

Thanks..everything's good.

I'm in the eastern suburbs so kind of opposite from him.

My power didn't even flicker a tiny bit, but almost all areas around me power was out.

Wind was definitely a bit scary at times, though.

Sucks about his neighbors..yeesh.

[Sapphire Silk]

Baltimore here.

Work closed today, we'll see what happens for tomorrow.

Just been steady "normal" rain and wind so far. Not too thrilled about what's coming up.

As a first time homeowner (bought this place about year ago), I'm (probably needlessly) worried about a lot of things.

Just let this pass so I can see it will all be okay. (Or not. )

Hope everything is OK where you are. Got an email from my brother, who lives in Linthicum. He says a neighbor's tree fell and crushed the neighbor's three cars. He was without power for about 15-16 hours, but had a generator which was a good thing; he was able to keep the sump pump in the basement going, and keep power to a freezer full of food.

All I have is a bunch of leaves in the front yard. I hope everyone else has little in the way of mess to clean up and has stayed safe.