Hurricane Sandy

[Trilby]

Jim was ok last I heard.
Wolf has no power but she's okay. She's throwing everything out of her fridge 'cept the beers.

*all facebook stuff

[infinite monkey]

Warm beers work in a pinch.

Or they can just sit outside. Mine do sometimes. But not for long.

[jimhelm]

oh yeah.... 'm fine.

only lost power for like 3 minutes. mainly just bored. watched a lot of bad tv, ate chinese food, etc.


Actually saw someone I know on one of those man on the street interviews. And heard one reporter ask a citizen what they think people should do if they lose power. really? that's bush league.

[Happy Monkey]

Stunningly, I didn't lose power. The lights flickered three times, but that was it. Usually, my power goes out if a cloud looks in my neighborhood's direction.

There must not be any more trees left between me and the substation.

[Spexxvet]

Electricity flickered once, here. Our new construction fucking leaked. A couple of substantial sized limbs (think upper arm diameter) fell, but were considerate enough to not fall on anything. Lots of interesting wind. I'm going out for a drive soon, to look at the local creeks.

Originally Posted by Ibby

I've been saying for years that we need a massive national energy infrastructure security investment. Think of the stimulative effects on the economy! Think of the health and safety improvements! think of the quality-of-life effects!
We live in a really very stormy nation. Why the fuck isn't it just OBVIOUS to put a lot of money into helping mitigate the common effects of that?

This is one of my hot points. We are a reactive nation. We'd rather pay over and over for repairs and losses due to outages than to proactively fix something.

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I did lose an old, dead tree but the tree didn't completely fall. It's held up at a 60-degree angle by another tree. Now I wonder whether I should just leave it to the new owners. Maybe they will like it like that.

Leave it. It adds character to the place.

[jimhelm]

My cow orkers boat got washed into someones back yard. He's beside himself.

[tw]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

My cow orkers boat got washed into someones back yard. He's beside himself.

And his boat stands beside his neighbor. Even his boat abandoned him.

I hope he did not consider his boat his best friend.

[wolf]

Survived. Power is on at the rehab, still none at home yet.

[xoxoxoBruce]

From NASA...

At 2:20 EDT on Sunday October 28, Hurricane Sandy was a marginal category 1 hurricane and its eyewall was modest, as TRMM reveals, which gives us hints about its possible future strength.
~snip~
But placed in context, the TRMM-observed properties of Hurricane Sandy’s eyewall are evidence of remarkable vigor. Most hurricanes
only have well-formed and compact eyewalls at category 3 strength or higher. Sandy was not only barely a category 1 hurricane, but Sandy was also experiencing strong wind shear, Sandy was going over ocean typically too cold to form hurricanes, and Sandy had been limping along as a marginal hurricane for several days.

[BigV]

wb wolf

[BrianR]

All right!

Anyone hit hard by Sandy?

I want damage reports! And pictures!

[glatt]

A small branch fell from the neighbors' tree into the end of our driveway, and my feet got a little tangled in it when I got the newspaper in the dark yesterday morning. When I went out a couple hours later and planned to pick it up, it was missing.

[tw]

On Tuesday morning (day after Sandy), reporters got onto Avalon. A barrier island town located where Sandy's eye hit. A picture of the fallen street light says what really happened. Behind that picture are 1) intact telephone and electric wires, 2) no damage to any home, and 3) no debris or sand in the streets. This is what most towns suffered despite non-stop news (no other television) for two day warning of the end of the earth. The actual reporting could have been 5 minute bulletins every hour.

[tw]

This picture is the road across Townsend Inlet from Avalon to Sea Isle (in the distance). Sea Isle is where Gov Chris Christie has a beach home. Atlantic is to the right. Pictured is the only part of that road that suffered damage as waves and wind came from the NE - right side of that picture.

Down to the right was a beach where I would launch my kayak into the ocean. Then the 'powers that be' decided to build a massive rock wall to protect expensive homes built right on the inlet and completely exposes to NE blown waves from the Atlantic. Therefore all beaches disappeared. Not just the beach I launch from. But the beach to right side of that picture for almost a kilometer to the ocean. Even beach one on the other side of that pictured rock wall disappeared. Because $millions were spent to protect homes that had no business being built there.

Without any beach protection, a whole 100 feet of Ocean Ave was damaged - as pictured. Damage created by politically spent money to protect people who had no business building homes right on the inlet and to the right of this picture.

So the local gossip (ie Action News) spend all day hyping damage, such as this, as the end of the world. This is where Sandy made landfall.

See those waves crashing over the wall? Often happens with any Nor'estrn storm. This road section often appears on the local gossip whenever a reporter needs footage showing how bad that one storm was.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I'm sure these people will be mighty happy to hear they don't have a problem.