Yes! Barely still no power. Thanks for asking Michael !
Originally Posted by Altec Best
Yes! Barely still no power. Thanks for asking Michael !
John, glad to see you're alright & checking-in from time to time .
No(w) what about bowtie ?
Last edited by Earl K; October 31st, 2012 at 09:30 AM.
Thanks for asking Earl.No what about bowtie ?
Glad to see your post AB, hope things get back to normal for you ASAP.
Apparently i live in a very unique little area. This thing(Sandy) raised it's hackles and roared at us Monday evening, and threatened to be a major conflagration. By about 9pm the wind all but stopped. It was so quiet here at my house that we could hear the wind roaring thru treetops a thousand feet above us a mile or so away.
It seems that the storm/winds approached us from a direction that allowed the Catskill Mountains to effectively cast a shadow of calm over us. Our fire dept was the only dept in the county that didn't receive a single dispatch. Within our township there is hardly a branch out of place. While we saw the lights dim far too many times to count, we never lost power. I can travel about 5 miles in any direction and encounter trees/wires down, and our local power provider warns that some in this area will be several days without power as they're down to skeleton crews here with most being deployed downstate.
In contrast i made a trip down to Newburgh(about halfway to NYC from here) yesterday afternoon to take some bottled water and gasoline to my aunt and her neighbors. Below Wurtsboro Mountain it starts looking pretty devastated. The normally 20-30 minute trip from I-86/rte 17 took the better part of 2 hours and some heavy bullshitting with emergency crews, detour after detour. Seems like everywhere there were two utility poles there was a tree on the wires between them. I cannot imagine what it looks like closer to the city.
On the advice of a good friend with "connections" i started prepping for this thing on wed the 24th since i have a very distinct paranoia about flooding after recent experiences. I no longer "poo poo" storm warnings. Nothing you do in preparation is a "waste". If you're spared an impending disaster, consider your preparations a "working drill".
Godspeed to all those suffering and recovering from this mess.
Not all vegetables make good leaders.
Here, in Rochester New York's suburbs, we were "blown away" by the impact of this storm. We had winds/gusts in excess of 60 mph coming off of Lake Ontario--mixed with torrential downpour it made for a lot of damage in certain areas nearest the lake. People near the lake (especially in low lying areas) were told to evacuate (and many did) due to rising lake levels. I had several friends who had substantial damage to their houses but thankfully other than a couple of huge tree limbs falling in my yard (which both missed my house and cars), my family/home was unscathed. Power was out two blocks from me in one direction, and a half mile away from me in another direction, but we were lucky enough to not lose power here. The city itself was spared much of the damage--it was really bad for those in the suburbs near Lake Ontario. There was a constant loud roar of those high winds here for hours on end as it poured hard and I had a couple of friends (in houses right on the Lake) who's houses shook for hours--both of which lost part of their roof! One of them also had their shed (with lawn mower etc. inside) blow away to God knows where. I hope John and our other members who were even closer to the east coast are faring well in the aftermath.....
Last edited by voice of the theater; October 31st, 2012 at 09:21 AM.
Being of "Sound" Mind
Sorry VOT that I missed you in my previous post . Glad to hear Hurricane Sandy decided not to take you para-sailing down the St. Lawrence, & over to NewFoundland .
I wonder how Gary L ( Gamalot ) made out through all of this ( it's been almost 4 years ) ?
cheers <> EarlK
Some of Garys work ;
So now you Yankee folks have had a good taste of what life is like down here along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Sucks!
I sure hope we don't get any of your crazy blizzards, we couldn't cope.
AFAIK, he's no longer downstate. Last i knew he was in the process of relocating back to his wife's hometown area. Been at least a couple(probably 3+) years since i've been in contact with him. I was in the process of trying to buy some N1201 knobs from him when he just vanished from the interwebs.I wonder how Gary L ( Gamalot ) made out through all of this ( it's been almost 4 years ) ?
Not all vegetables make good leaders.
We did OK here in Northwest CT relative to others, just another fine mess.
Lots of unexpected cleanup and repairs over the last several years.
They are calling this the new normal? Where is a stable place to live?
well-said.
We dodged the bullet this time - only tree branches down and minor power outage.
But my son lives in Brooklyn, and we've yet to hear from him - with power out there communications are blacked out.
- Mike
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