Let's not forget ...

[Gob]

The death toll from Sandy keeps rising as swathes of the US East Coast battle to recover, three days after being smashed by the massive storm.

More than 80 people are now known to have died, 37 in New York City alone, and others remain missing.

About 4.5 million customers in 12 states are still without power, and chronic fuel shortages persist.

The National Guard is to deliver a million meals and bottled water to New Yorkers affected by the storm.

The number of dead in the US has exceeded the toll from the Caribbean, where 69 people were killed by Sandy.

The storm could cost the US $50bn (£31bn), according to forecasting firm Eqecat, doubling the previous estimate.

[Gob]

Just dropped O-n-W a line asking him for an update

[Guinevere]

Anyone have contact for BigRR -- have not seen hid nor hair of him around here since some time on Monday . . .

ETA: and I think he works/worked in lower Manhattan, so probably not in the office these days.

[Sue U]

Big RR is out of the city and in his own practice. I sent him an email, but I just heard from a friend of mine in his neighborhood (next town over) that things are pretty bad in the area, and they're saying electric service may not be restored for the next week to 10 days. As he described it: "No power, telephone, Internet; trees and telephone poles simply lying across busy roads in some cases held 15 ft up by sagging power and phone cables. Quite the party."

[eddieq]

I live. Many in my town are still without power. I am fully restored with power, cable, internet and phone. Schools opened today, but one of them was running on generators with no heat. Good thing it's still pretty mild out there.

[Crackpot]

Eddie! long time no post!

[Lord Jim]

Good to hear it eddie, nice to see a post from you.

[Gob]

Cheers for checking in Eddie!

[Big RR]

Power is back this morning and we're all fine; thanks for asking about me.

[Gob]

Is anyone here in touch with O-n-W off board?

I've emailed him, but not had any reply.

Can anyone update us?

[The Hen]

Great to hear from those affected.

Fingers crossed it doesn't take too long for Oldr to be able to post to update his situation.

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[Lord Jim]

Right after the storm, there were over 900,000 households on Long Island (oldr's bailiwick) without power:

Under the Long Island Power Authority, more than 930,000 families are without power accounting for 90 percent of the total number of people on Long Island.

http://www.legislativegazette.com/Artic ... gions.html

As of nine hours ago, here's the latest update from the LIPA:

LIPA AND NATIONAL GRID RESTORE SERVICE TO NEARLY 600,000 CUSTOMERS AFFECTED BY HURRICANE SANDY; PROJECTS MOST CUSTOMERS WILL HAVE RESTORATION BY NOVEMBER 7th

(Uniondale, N.Y.) – LIPA and National Grid have restored service to approximately 600,000 customers affected by Hurricane Sandy, meaning well over the 1 million customers who lost power due to the devastating storm are now restored.

Tens of thousands of customers are being restored each day and LIPA expects to have over 700,000 customers restored by the end of the day on Sunday, November 4th.

By end of the day Wednesday, November 7th, 90% of all LIPA customers whose homes and businesses were affected by power outages should be restored. Additionally, those customers in the most severely damaged areas in and around Brookville, St. James and Port Jefferson should expect restoration in up to another week or more.

http://www.longislandexchange.com/press ... ane-sandy/

So there are still more than 300,000 households without power on Long Island, 90% of which should have it restored by Wednesday...(that will be after a full week.... )

I don't know if oldr lives in one of those heavily hit areas that the news release says could take another week or more beyond that for power restoration....

Alice may know that....

[alice]

I was given a very good lead (thank you) to assist me in finding information about oldr-n-wsr's area. That lead helped me to locate another source, which led me to yet another source ... and I managed to get a snippet of information from someone who lives in the next town over from oldr-n-wsr.
They wrote:
"It's not too bad there...some flooding and powwr outages..but not as bad as in nyc or nj....."
(oldr-n-wsrs town) ... "is on High ground here so I doubt they had any flooding problems, and it's not close to water either"

That's the most I've been able to find out so far.

If oldr-n-wsr is okay (which I'm sure he is), I believe he would be very busy helping people who need help - he's very compassinate and willing to help others, very civic minded, very capable with tools etc, so he would, I'm sure, be helping with whatever volunteer help was needed, any urgent repairs etc. I'm sure all that sort of stuff would be the priority right now.

I was in contact just beforehand and Gob said (above) that he's sent a message, so oldr-n-wsr knows that people are worrying about him. Hopefully once power is properly restored and he has time to think of the world past Long Island, he'll get in contact and let us know he's okay.


(hopefully soon)

[oldr_n_wsr]

I've said it before but I'll say it again.
Thanks for caring everyone.

no need to rehash what I posted elsewhere