Perfect Storm

The flooding down here by the shore is crazy. I drove up yesterday morning to the toolnut , with traffic it was over a 2hr drive, to get a generator. I'm hoping I don't have to use it.
Hope everyone in sandys path is ok
Dave
 
There's light rain here in NoVa right now, with minimal breezes.  I have a good, working genny with three tanks of fuel; both vehicles have full tanks; I have a full propane tank for the grill; there's beer, chili and milk in the fridge, and plenty of toilet paper in the closet, and the sump pump works.  What more could I ask for??? 

[big grin]
 
There is enough dangerous stuff in the world, that's why I prefer to live in a place where mother nature dosen't try to kill us.  No tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, no major flooding, mudslides or forest fires here in Pittsburgh.  That's the way I like it. [thumbs up]

Good luck to all you guys in the path...
 
Brice Burrell said:
There is enough dangerous stuff in the world, that's why I prefer to live in a place where mother nature dosen't try to kill us.  No tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, no major flooding, mudslides or forest fires here in Pittsburgh.  That's the way I like it. [thumbs up]

Good luck to all you guys in the path...
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Brice,

I'm with you on that! I don't ever rememeber having these freak storms when I was growing up. Until last year, the area never had snow - let alone a heavy snowstorm on Holloween.  Ditto on Micro-bursts (mini tornadoes) that only started happening in the last few years.

Bob
 
Well its here and the boatyard parking lots are under water with the first high tide, the full moon hide tide tonight will be the big one for sure, wind blowing at 50-60 mph and radar map shows it not even here yet, expected to really blow by 14:00 hrs and than I really will be having to watch what goes on here in Greater Down Sayville,
Everyone stay safe and try to stay dry  [wink]

I will be riding out the mess in the boatyard for the duration.

Sal
 
Sal hope you've got all the hatches battened down. Keep your head down and stay safe. That goes for all the East coast foggers. Be safe.
 
I am at the weak end of the storm and am not looking forward to the next 24 hours.  I am hoping to not hear something landing on the roof.   [scared]

Wishing all of our members in the path a safe outcome.

Peter

 
Dave Reinhold said:
The flooding down here by the shore is crazy. I drove up yesterday morning to the toolnut , with traffic it was over a 2hr drive, to get a generator. I'm hoping I don't have to use it.
Hope everyone in sandys path is ok
Dave
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We are not very far apart. I bought a generator this week too. It's crazy - 20 years living in Monmouth County and never had a power outage more than a couple of hours until Irene hit last year. Then last year I had two long outages and the probability of a 3rd this year looks very strong.

 
For those interested (or directly impacted), Google has put up a very good map of the storm here. 

Back to my chili and beer... 

[big grin]
 
Powers out damn tree took the lines out around the corner.
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Ill fire up the generator later, for now ill run on syslite power
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Here in Woodbridge NJ the wind has picked up a lot over the last hour or two. Looks like full hurricane force winds will be on us in the next 2 - 3 hours. Rain hasn't been bad yet but it looks like 5 - 8" is likely.

Stay safe everyone.
-Jim
 
Sparktrician said:
For those interested (or directly impacted), Google has put up a very good map of the storm here. 

Back to my chili and beer... 

[big grin]
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Ouch - not sure I should have looked at that map. Shows a 60-70% probability of 6' storm surge at home, that may cost me the CT36 and a few other low lying treasures. One neighbor has operational web-cams showing water reaching their foundation at low tide. The eye of the storm is supposed to make landfall at 8:00 tonight, smack at high tide.

On the positive side my sister-in-law and her family are taking good care of us, even to getting 2 nephews to whip of biscuits and gravy for brunch. If we lose power then I won't be forced to monitor the damage minute-by-minute, probably a good thing overall. It's like watching a slow-motion train wreck.

Hope everyone else is faring at least as well or better.

RMW
 
Willy,

That's not a map of the storm.  That's the path Dave took trying to find his way to the Tool Nut.  Never trust GPS!  [big grin]
 
I live north of Boston and the wind is really kicking right now. I can't imagine what you guys in jersey are going through.
Hope all are safe. My Syslite has been on standby since yesterday.
 
To those of you out west, I just wanted you to know that despite what you see on the news there are in fact two other metropolitan areas on the east coast other than New York and Washington. One is called Philadelphia. In Greek, Phila means love, delphia means city. However in latin, it means, "where children will hear vile language from rude drunks at the coliseums." The other place is called Baltimore. This means, "place of the eternal suffering sports fan" or perhaps, "where you work very hard to eat small crabs."

Both of these strange places, places you may have never heard of, are actually more in the path of this storm. In fact the place called Philadelphia is right in the path of this storm and has millions of people.

I know, I know. It is amazing to learn of these new exotic places.
 
Brice Burrell said:
There is enough dangerous stuff in the world, that's why I prefer to live in a place where mother nature dosen't try to kill us.  No tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, no major flooding, mudslides or forest fires here in Pittsburgh.  That's the way I like it. [thumbs up]

Good luck to all you guys in the path...
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Yeah,go head !    rubbing in! ::) ::)
 
Well, Dave's been without power for a while (as usual) and a tree fell on the house across from his.  I'm sure Dave really appreciates that generator from the Tool Nut now.
 
From that map that Willy posted I'm not so sure Pittsburghians will escape this...we'll see. Glad to be in western Ky right now and no longer in Philadelphia..
 
It is starting to get pretty gusty here just east of Toronto.  They've warned people close to the shore of lake Ontario that with nothing to buffet the winds over the lake to take extra care.  We're about half a mile from the lake, so I spent yesterday and today organizing/tying things down outside.

My wife flips me off when I tell her how dangerous it can be, but I know that hurricanes coming this far inland with such force are no laughing matter especially in an area that rarely sees significant remnants of hurricanes usually.  Hurricane Hazel in '54 caught a lot of people off guard west of Toronto, and I hope this one doesn't do the same, although I think Kingston 250km east of Toronto will have what would have been the eye going over it based on the current model at this time, I hope people are OK.  A lot of folks will be asleep in their beds by the time we get the main part of it here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_HazelHurricane Hazel
 
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