OT: Positive Thoughts and Prayers For Our East Coast Members

**bowtie427ss** · October 31st, 2012, 08:43 AM

No what about bowtie ?

Thanks for asking Earl.

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.

**voice of the theater** · October 31st, 2012, 09:06 AM

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.....

**Alien_Shore** · October 31st, 2012, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by bowtie427ss

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.

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.

**Altec Best** · October 31st, 2012, 02:08 PM

Tom & Earl. Thanks guys ! Essentially land line Phones are out and power outages are widespread lots and lots and trees down and damaged homes it could be a while. Can only post from my iPhone ATM . So posts will be limited! I still have no power or heat.

Would like to wish everyone well who have it worse than us. All the best to you and your families.

**Earl K** · October 31st, 2012, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by voice of the theater

Here, in Rochester New York's suburbs, we were "blown away" by the impact of this storm.
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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 ;

**Panomaniac** · October 31st, 2012, 06:21 PM

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.

**bowtie427ss** · October 31st, 2012, 07:01 PM

I wonder how Gary L ( Gamalot ) made out through all of this ( it's been almost 4 years ) ?

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.

**cradeldorf** · November 1st, 2012, 01:49 AM

What happened....was there a storm or something...

**Altec Best** · November 1st, 2012, 07:40 AM

Originally Posted by bowtie427ss

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 talked to him about 6 months ago. He's not doing too much audio these days he said.