Hurricane Sandy Check-In

[Jay 2K Winger]

Fairfax County, VA - more or less due west of DC. We got lucky. Lot of rain and wind, but our house escaped without any apparent damage, and we still have power.

I'll be going in to work later, which should be fun. Dunno how many of my CWs will be in, or how busy work will be. But we'll see.

[JPD]

I'm in North West CT here, although closer to central. While I currently don't have power, the neighborhoods around me have power. It seems to be a mismatch of who does or doesn't have power. Here, the rain never seemed to be that bad, but there was a lot of wind. I noticed a neighbor did loose a tree, but it landed in another tree and didn't hit anything.

[protege]

Pittsburgh area here. We have flooding in many of the low-lying areas, trees and power lines down, some high winds, etc. No snow just yet...but I'm sure it's coming.

I'm on CS, because I was told not to head to work today. Financial markets are closed, and even if I wanted to...I couldn't get to work. Main road I take into town...is under about 2 feet of muddy water.

As for Cape May, they seem to be getting the brunt of the storm. I've walked along Beach Drive millions of times over the years--my family rents an apartment about a block from the beach. In fact, I haven't seen water come up that far in decades. Nearly 40 years of vacations spent there, friends (including a girl I once dated from Cape May Point) made over the years

[Dave1982]

In one piece and at work today. No damage to our property, just lots of leaves and small branches all over the place. The power is on but cable (tv/net/phone) is out. Thank goodness for cell phones and LTE-enabled iPads

[Greenday]

I'm still here. Light wind, occasional sprinkle of rain. We faired well. Just a large branch fell down and landed next to three cars.

Neighbor's tree split in half. Just missed their cars.

Wire down across the street.

Huge tree down the street uprooted.

Photos to come later.

[Amina516]

Central PA here (not too far from MadMike ). Some flooding, lots of trees down and power outages but we weren't hit as hard as predicted.

I'm praying for NJ and NY. The Pictures from those areas are horrible and i was following the NYC hospital evacuations from wok last night. Intense.

[FormerCallingCardRep]

Update from the Ohio Valley, very windy, heavy rain mixed with snow.

Last update I got from Little Bits last night was that they were getting heavy snow. I got a message from the college this morning that all classes were cancelled.

[EricKei]

Gulf coaster here -- You all have my most profound sympathies and best wishes for your safety and (relative) sanity (dealing with SC's does take its toll, after all)...

I've been through the warm-weather equivalent of this stuff more than once, sometimes staying, usually leaving. It seems to me that the latter would have been really difficult for this one, tho, given its massive size x.x Just think of Sandy as the ultimate SC. Big, loud, destructive, no sympathy whatsoever, and she's gonna leave behind a HUGE mess. But, at least, once she's gone, she really won't ever come back!

Be well!

[jedimaster91]

We're feeling the effects all the way in Kentucky. The wind is howling right now and I think I hear rain hitting the windows. Lexington is supposed to get snow from this system. Those of you in the more direct path of the storm, please stay safe.

[MoonCat]

Video of the explosion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqYZ433TeQ

Holy crap!

And was that a person scurrying past the building right at the beginning of the video??

[KiaKat]

Video of the explosion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqYZ433TeQ

[Greenday]

Checking from BookstoreEscapee's area. Power went out late afternoon. Wind is insane. Just watched a huge tree fall on my neighbor's lawn.

My sister works at a retirement home. She slept over Sunday night and tonight. Their generator blew. Her boss said they can't sleep and have to patrol the halls.

[ArcticChicken]

Power's been flickering for a while, went out for a couple seconds. I've got a camp lantern on standby, and a box of matches in my pocket.

[MadMike]

South Central PA here, living across the river from Harrisburg, and working in Harrisburg. It got a little cold here, and started raining sideways. They closed my son's college last night, and sent my wife home from work early (she got home before I even got up for my job), but they didn't close mine, which pissed me off. They eventually sent us home at 1:00 pm, which was better than nothing, I suppose, but it gets to be a mess in the parking garage when every single person tries to leave at the same time.

Surprisingly, they already closed us for tomorrow. The worst of it supposed to hit tomorrow afternoon. So far, we haven't lost power for any length of time, but it has flickered a few times, and gone out twice for a split second.

[KiaKat]

UPDATE: Apparently there was an explosion at a ConEd substation in the East Village, contributing to the blackout. Likely it was the one at 14th St, right in the middle of the flooding.

Photos: http://gothamist.com/2012/10/29/lowe...er_after_p.php