Hurricane Sandy Check-In

[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.

[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.

[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%.

[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

[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

[Greenday]

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

[Zellie Crescent]

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

[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]

[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.

[Seshat]

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

Gah!

Stay safe. Be careful, okay?

[BookstoreEscapee]

No major damage* but still no power. Posting from work (first day back and we are still on generators. Was told to stay home yesterday because they wanted to keep office staff as light as possible and I'm not involved in getting orders in and out of here which is their priority right now...the store in my town isn't even open yet...and neither is the Starbucks next to it ). I have hot water at least, but no heat. Stayed at my parents' house last night because they at least have a fireplace, so the living room was relatively warm and I slept on the couch.

*There is a piece of siding just under my living room window that looks like someone pulled it from the middle but the ends did not detach. It should be under the window frame but is bowed out in the center. No damage inside, though, and I don't own the outside so the association will be responsible for fixing it. That didn't happen until after dark; I heard a "new and disconcerting noise" (as I told my dad) but I couldn't tell what it was until the next morning when I went out to look around.

[Greenday]

Dunkin Donuts is open on 35 but the line is huge.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Some hightlights:

http://www.foxnews.com/weather/slide...elated#slide=1

(The Seaside, NJ pics are probably closest to me.)

I took some pics around my complex; mostly trees down and some siding and shutters. I'll post them when I can get them off my camera (can't even power up my computer to pull them off since the battery is old and won't charge anymore).

My work just shut down warehouse operations again a little while ago; apparently the state commandeered our diesel load for the generators. Office people are staying for now since we're not using that much power, relatively speaking at least.

[Greenday]

The curfew has been lifted for my town. Don't know about the rest of the county. My favorite bar is open until 7.

[Kheldarson]

Kabe and I got power back yesterday afternoon after over 48 hours without and just got internet back now. Snow's all gone now too.