Just frickin great.

[Jarlaxle]

i get very confused with where people live - I am somewhat dyselxic when it comes to geography matters, so I find it very hard to 'place' the locations and to remember where they are. So I was generally worried about anyone who was living anywhere in America until I started to get more of an idea of who was in the worst hit areas from the comments being made.

So you know who's where, I live in southern New Jersey about 50 miles northwest of Atlantic City and just outside Philadelphia. Big RR lives in northern New Jersey, about 25 miles west of New York City. oldr_n_wsr lives out on Long Island, I can never remember if it's in the Farmingdale or Farmingville area (but they're not that far apart). Guin lives on a spit of land sticking out into the Atlantic Ocean near Boston.

Although the eye of the storm passed pretty much right over me, we got little damage around here. Some minor flooding, lots of trees down. Folks farther to the north -- in BigRR's region in particular -- got a lot worse, from what I have seen on the news. Several electric generating stations along the major rivers in North Jersey were flooded out, knocking out power. And of course the Jersey Shore, where we go for summer holidays (not the awful TV show), was devastated. I'm sure you've seen the pictures. New York City looks like it got hit pretty hard with flooding, especially in the subways and in lower Manhattan. My brother in Brooklyn had a tree fall on his car, and there were lots of large trees down in his neighborhood. I am concerned for oldr, since there was severe flooding in parts of Long Island, but I think he may be inland enough to have avoided the storm surge.

Well, technically it's a penisula, not a spit, and it sticks out into Massachusetts Bay not the open Atlantic, but other than that I adopt Sue's descriptions.

I've been to that town. The damn thing is a mile wide, TOPS, and a lot less than that in many places! It's a spit of land! :p

[Jarlaxle]

Just an addendum--IIRC RayThom lives in the Philadelphia area. And Jarlaxle lives somewhere in New England (MA? RI?), I'm not sure exactly where. (I don't think he's ever specifically said, and I don't think he wants us to know.)

SPOTTED: Shark swimming in the streets of Wildwood, NJ (View #2) #Sandy #hurricane

[Insert random generic lawyer joke here.]

I am very wary of posting personal information online, though I think I have posted enough here & on the old CSB that anyone who cares could figure out where I am...I work in MA (which I think I have posted) and I live in RI. I still have no power (which surprises me not at all)...neither does my mother. This morning, Liz brought our bus down, which means my mother now has a place to stay with a TV, running water, and functioning heat. (Without power, her house has none of the above.)

[RayThom]

Damn! People will believe any Photo-shopped image they want to believe regardless how ridiculous the scenario. Doesn't anyone check this shit out before posting it? Besides that, there is not one neighborhood in the Wildwoods, be it The Villas, The Crest, Central, or North that has that kind of "openness" to it. And that goes for Brigantine Beach, too.

What a bunch of maroons.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/sandy.asp

[MajGenl.Meade]

Have any of the religious nutbags stated Sandy is god's way of showing he hates homosexuals yet?

Apparently the Moslem view is that Andrew D is somehow responsible....

"Somebody might ask, 'Why would God do that?' Firstly, we cannot understand God's wisdom. Allah tests us in this world to give us positions in the next. It is by answering those tests that we prove our faithfulness," said Qadhi, who added that the Quran says "Allah never burdened the soul with more than it can bare."

I don't give a damn about the truth, Baby
Except for the naked truth. Oh yeah

But fortunately the real Christian view (as opposed to homophobic non-readers of the Bible) is this:

There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish (Luke 13:1-5)

And he should know.

Meade

[Big RR]

Well, finally my power was restored; I did fairly well except for losing most of what was in my freezer and living with 40 degree (or lower) nights and no heat. We didn't have a lot of damage locally, but the lights on the local state highway are out, causing th epolice to black the insections) and you have to drive about 10 miles to make a U turn. All in all, I feel pretty lucky.

Thanks to those who inquired aboout me.

[Lord Jim]

Nice to hear that all is well, Big RR...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Watch out for those racist cops though...

Very glad you're OK

[Big RR]

Glad to see your sense of proofreading and humor has not changed Meade.

[Guinevere]

Glad to hear from you and that it wasn't too awful!

[Lord Jim]

Interesting question re the whack jobs...

If Obama getting high marks for his role in handling Sandy winds up providing him with the bump he needs to push him to victory next Tuesday, will they then be saying that God wanted Obama re-elected?

Somehow I doubt it....

I suspect if that happens we'll start to see conspiracy theories about how the government somehow manipulated the weather to cause the hurricane to hit, just so Obama could look good....

[RayThom]

... and the biggest Republican party booster ever, Chris Crisco, Obama received just the right amount of juice needed to assure him of yet another victory. It appears that every dark cloud does, in fact, have its silver lining. Thank you, Gov.

BTW -- most of the important numbers are up for Barack thus shooting holes through much of Romney's last minute campaign strategy.

Oh, and God Bless America!


Ryan/Norquist... 2016

[alice]

i get very confused with where people live - I am somewhat dyselxic when it comes to geography matters, so I find it very hard to 'place' the locations and to remember where they are. So I was generally worried about anyone who was living anywhere in America until I started to get more of an idea of who was in the worst hit areas from the comments being made.

So you know who's where, I live in southern New Jersey about 50 miles northwest of Atlantic City and just outside Philadelphia. Big RR lives in northern New Jersey, about 25 miles west of New York City. oldr_n_wsr lives out on Long Island, I can never remember if it's in the Farmingdale or Farmingville area (but they're not that far apart). Guin lives on a spit of land sticking out into the Atlantic Ocean near Boston.

Although the eye of the storm passed pretty much right over me, we got little damage around here. Some minor flooding, lots of trees down. Folks farther to the north -- in BigRR's region in particular -- got a lot worse, from what I have seen on the news. Several electric generating stations along the major rivers in North Jersey were flooded out, knocking out power. And of course the Jersey Shore, where we go for summer holidays (not the awful TV show), was devastated. I'm sure you've seen the pictures. New York City looks like it got hit pretty hard with flooding, especially in the subways and in lower Manhattan. My brother in Brooklyn had a tree fall on his car, and there were lots of large trees down in his neighborhood. I am concerned for oldr, since there was severe flooding in parts of Long Island, but I think he may be inland enough to have avoided the storm surge.

Thank you for helping out with the locations .. it gave me a much better reference when I was looking at the maps.

I do have oldr-n-wsr's specific location and I'm a bit worried. Apparently (only according to any information I can find on the internet) the power is out all over the area, and now there are warnings being put out at the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that cover his area. The warnings are regarding things like not drinking contamainated water and all the other things that they say when an area is in devastation after a disaster. Any news anywhere about the area is making it sound all very grim.
I'm sure that he would have more important things to do than go looking for somewhere to get on the internet. I'm sure he'd be busy helping out friends, family, neighbours, anyone who needs help - because that's the sort of person he is.
But it would be good just to hear that he's okay.

[Econoline]

Damn! People will believe any Photo-shopped image they want to believe regardless how ridiculous the scenario. Doesn't anyone check this shit out before posting it? Besides that, there is not one neighborhood in the Wildwoods, be it The Villas, The Crest, Central, or North that has that kind of "openness" to it. And that goes for Brigantine Beach, too.

What a bunch of maroons.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/sandy.asp

I didn't know I had to believe in something in order to make a joke about it.

Still, for those interested in sorting such things out, here's a very good article from The Atlantic: "Sorting the Real Sandy Photos From the Fakes"...and sometimes just which of the photos are verifiably real turns out to be quite surprising.

[oldr_n_wsr]

It's good to be back. I was without power from monday about 2pm until yesterday (sunday) at about 3pm. No major catastophies but there are quite a few houses wrecked from falling trees. I live in Farmingville which is about 20 miles east of Farmingdale. (even Long Islanders get the two confused so don't feel bad) We had no sewage problems as we are about as "middle island" as you can get. I am 4 houses from the long island expressway (I495)which runs pretty much down the center of the island. If I get washed out, things are really really bad.

Had a bit of luck as I went into work on wednesday and there was a light pole falling in the middle of a road I needed to go down so I couldn't go that way. I turned around to go around the "back way" which took me past a Home Depot. It was 6:30am and I looked into the parking lot and about 5-10 people were lined up. On a whim, I drove in and asked what they were doing (it was another 1/2 hour before they opened) and a person on teh line said they just got a shipment of 200 generators. I pulled in and got me a generator. Bigger than any I would have bought had there been different circumstances, but 5500 watts got the whole house up and running. Hot water (SHOWERS!!!!), TV but no cable and no internet. Saved the food in the freezer as monday we packed one freezer with everything trying to keep it all together. Nothing defrosted in the 48 hours without power. We ran it for about 2 hours ever 5 hours to keep the refridgerators cold and to take a shower and then watch a movie. My wife made pot roast on saturday. It was delicious.

The hardest hit on the island was south of sunrise highway which is about 5 miles south of me. Anything south of sunrise highway is either gone or ruined. Long Beach (a barrieer island) is really bad off, as is much of Staten Island. Storm hit at high tide and a full moon so the storm surge was much larger than anything they predicted.

Still a lot of people without power and I saw more then a few homes crumpled under a tree or two (or three or four). I feel for those people. Helped a few of my daughters friends who ran out of gas. I have three 5 gallon gas cans that I spent everyday waiting in line to fill up. It was quicker to fill up the cans than to wait in the car line. Then on saturday night I was coming home from an AA meeting and I saw a tanker truck pulling in to the gas station near me. I got on the little bit of line, called home to have the daughter bring me money and the gas cans (as they were running out from running the generator). Waited about 1/2 hour for the tanker to unload then another 15 minutes to get into the station and fill up everything. Sometimes you do have luck.

Got three cans of 5 gallons each which I put one into the sons car, and one into the daughters and holding one for emergency as gas (the juice for you mad max fans) is the real problem now.

More to post later, I'm hungry and it's lunch time.
Thanks for all your concerns. We made it through with nary a scratch, I wish everyone did but sadly, that's not the case. Some 50 people are dead from this and I fear that toll will go up as more places are searched.
Thanks again
oldr_n_wsr

[MajGenl.Meade]

Good on ya, oldr.

[Lord Jim]

Thanks for that update on conditions in your neck of the woods....

(Fantastic serendipity on the generator...you must have some good karma working for you.... )

[Guinevere]

So glad to hear you are ok!

[oldr_n_wsr]

Thanks for that update on conditions in your neck of the woods....

(Fantastic serendipity on the generator...you must have some good karma working for you.... )

I'll take whatever karma/serendipity/luck I can get. I write a gratitude list every day/night (sponsors orders) and getting the generator was on wednesdays list.
It ended up being $700 after taxes and my wife was not happy about that, but when I told her, "if someone walked up to you right now and said, 'give me $700 and you will have power right now' would you give it to them?". She said, yes she would.
nuff said.

Took a ride around the neighborhood near work. Lines for gas, downtown Westbury is still without power. Generators and temporary stop lights at the intersections. All those businesses losing money. Not good even a week after the storm.

Originally they weere calling Sandy, "Frankenstorm" but for the past week they have been calling it, "Superstorm Sandy". Whatever they call it, it left some serious damage.

[Gob]

Thanks for updating us mate, we're so glad to know you're safe.

[Sue U]

Glad to hear ou're okay, oldr. I'm going to miss that drive out Sunrise Highway.