OT: Positive Thoughts and Prayers For Our East Coast Members

**Altec Best** · November 3rd, 2012, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by Old Guy

I was trying to think of that song I got the power and found this one !

**Russnohio** · November 3rd, 2012, 11:04 AM

I haven't posted in a while, but I'm glad to see you guys made it through this mayhem.Here in Ohio I lost power Monday night and didn't get it back until late afternoon Friday......longest I've ever been without power. Being a single man with no kids here it was not so bad except that I had to throw away a good bit of food from my 'fridge.

Altec Best......those downed poles in your area look insane! Incredible that so many poles would come down in a row like that.

As others have stated I too miss Gary (gamalot)

Russ

**Altec Best** · November 3rd, 2012, 11:08 AM

I'll see if I can get him to come post to say hello...

Added: Just talked to Gary he is fine but has no power and running on generator.. He'll stop by when he gets his power back..

Gary hope you can get back to some normalcy and soon.. I just went through it myself.. All The Best !

**Panomaniac** · November 3rd, 2012, 06:40 PM

Years ago a friend had a funny one panel cartoon taped to his fridge. I twas titled "Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide. It showed a map of the US with tornadoes in the Midwest, blizzards in the north, hurricanes in the south, earthquakes in west, New Yorkers in New York, etc. There is trouble everywhere. (Except Hawaii, or maybe volcanoes, tsunamis and sharks count)

You know there is now a drink called the Sandy? Nothing fancy, just a watered down Manhattan.

**gamalot** · November 3rd, 2012, 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by Altec Best

Greg what your most likely seeing are the national broadcasts..You have to look locally like the Philadelphia TV stations try,

WPVI Philadelphia News, Weather & Traffic | Philly Area News for the Delaware and Lehigh Valleys | 6abc.com

Viewer Images from Sandy | NBC 10 Philadelphia

As for storm track it came on shore around Atlantic City and headed WNW. Google is your friend here...

I took some photos around me and this was a frequent scene on every street we were on.Also took a photo of the front page of a local newspaper of Bull Run road, which is only about a mile and a half from where I live.. The scenes a long the shore are of damage from storm surge (Fast Rising Water) from the ocean.Where I am we received mostly wind damage.

My place here in the southern Catskills looks just about the same minus the trucks doing the repairs. Still in the dark except for the generator and satellite net when I run it.

Gamalot here checking in like a blast from the past. Been quite a while since I stopped in but I still have my Altecs and Sansui Big Gs and all is sounding great.

Hope to have some pole juice in the next week or so so I can kick it with some old pals. I do still have plenty of the original crossover knobs but talk to John to get the story about them. Some guys here seem to think they growed on the tree out back for free but that tree got blowed over. To say it another way. "I paid to have them built and the govment had nothing to do with it"!

**Earl K** · November 3rd, 2012, 09:05 PM

Hey Gary,

Very nice to hear from you / even if it is under these lousy circumstances .

Good thing you got a gennie !

<> EarlK

**bowtie427ss** · November 4th, 2012, 08:20 AM

Some guys here seem to think they growed on the tree out back for free but that tree got blowed over. To say it another way. "I paid to have them built and the govment had nothing to do with it"!

Really?

Which guys?

I don't recall anyone on this board mentioning those knobs besides me. So, i have to assume you're referring to me. I'm not sure i appreciate the inference.

The only discussion i've ever had regarding cost/price of them was with you Gary, and the only cost/price discussed was what you paid to have them produced, a price for the two dozen or so that i was interested in was never discussed! I asked you for a price for a certain quantity, shipped, and never heard from you again.

Peace....................

**westend9** · November 5th, 2012, 03:39 AM

Good to hear you're OK AB, also bowtie and others out that way. Is anyone in contact with Scott Fitlin? Coney Island must have been just about ground zero for Sandy's storm surge.
My Daughter lives in Brooklyn and they came through Sandy OK, lost a tree in front of the house but otherwise OK. Their friends, who stayed with them during Irene because they live close to the beach, decided to ride this one out at home. They haven't heard from them yet. I hope that's due to lack of power and/or wet phones. The weather is forecasting a Noreaster to blow in to the coast, this week. Those poor folks may get hit with more rain and some flooding, bad news.