Perfect Storm

Sal - sorry to see/hear about the damage. How is your area recovering, i.e. power back yet?

We still can't go home to assess the damage. Our president and governor staged a photo op from Brigantine, and by all reports are the island was really whacked.

Any Buffett fans will appreciate that the "coconut telegraph" is humming with activity, all the good info we have gotten has been relayed from acquaintance to neighbor and back. No power, gas leaks, boats in peoples yards and boil the water. Our neighbors have come together to do anything they can to help each other, it makes me appreciate how lucky we really are.

We are most heartsick thinking about our older neighbors who may have been totally flooded out, some are at a point in life where they don't have it in them to rebuild.

Everyone affected by this, stay safe and good luck.

RMW

 
This storm was unbelievable!  In the 5 years I have been in South River, NJ the longest we have been without power was 3 hours, even during Irene we only lost power for 3 minutes.  Well we have now been without since 7 pm on Monday.  Large collection of candles paying off.  I went and drove around to see if anyplace had power, very spotty.  Some streets would have and the next street wouldn't. It will be the weekend before most places start getting powered up again.  The lines at the gas stations are incredible, a Hess station on route 18 had lines around a full block for cars and a separate line for people. 

Everyone be safe and hope everything is up and running before long. 
 
Still no power at the Reinhold residence, and with amount of damage around my neighborhood ill be surprised if I see it on before Tuesday. Gas is the real problem now, very few stations are open and the few that are have insane lines. The coast line is absolutely devastated. I haven't even seen the news yet but from my friends pictures that ive seen a lot has been lost. I'm glad my home is in one piece and my family is ok it will get better soon.

Stay safe
Dave
 
We had gotten our power on last night. Luckily no water damage. Others were not so lucky. It was the high winds that knocked down the trees which in turn knocked out all those above ground power lines.

Hopefully all those without power will get theirs back soon and to those who lost their homes - or worse deserve some prayers.

Bob
 
Sal LiVecchi said:
Well it was fun, NOT, Costly yes, lost my car to 2 1/2 feet of water
Sal LiVecchi said:
No my wife's Mercedes was the victim on this one. Rubber truck survived the hit OK.
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Sal:
Incredible picture of your er' your wife's car.
Is it toast or can they "dry it out"?
We've had 6-7 days of rain but nothing like the damage you guys are experiencing.
Take care.
Tim
 
Dave Reinhold said:
Still no power at the Reinhold residence, and with amount of damage around my neighborhood ill be surprised if I see it on before Tuesday. Gas is the real problem now, very few stations are open and the few that are have insane lines. The coast line is absolutely devastated. I haven't even seen the news yet but from my friends pictures that ive seen a lot has been lost. I'm glad my home is in one piece and my family is ok it will get better soon.
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Brutal!
Sorry to hear, and I thought that snow storm you guys had last year was freakish...you guys really get whacked...no pun intended.
Tim
 
Our lights flickered a few times, we got away easy.

Some friends who live a few minutes away from us have been without power for several days.
 
Dave

If you have enough gas, go to Pennsylvania. I did that today and very few lines, plus I ran into a lot of fellow garden staters.  Better to drive an hour than wait for 2 hours. 
 
Wooden Skye said:
Dave

If you have enough gas, go to Pennsylvania. I did that today and very few lines, plus I ran into a lot of fellow garden staters.  Better to drive an hour than wait for 2 hours.  
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I can save you some distance - BORDENTOWN
There are local places now that don't have lines.
 
Tim.  The car is a total for sure, waiting on insurance adjuster to decide its worth.

Sal
 
Just caught this on the news:  The European weather models and the American models are agreeing that there is a very distinct chance of a Nor'easter developing early to mid-week next week and ending up sitting off the coast of NJ and NY Wednesday.

I am not being an alarmist, just suggesting that it might be worth monitoring for those who can.

Peter
 
Peter  all my alarms and bells are already going off, this would be a real issue for all of us if this thing continues to build.

For me right now enough is enough

Sal

 
Another storm would be highly unwelcome.

Just returned to the in-laws from our first visit home to Brigantine. I have to give a huge "thank you" to the public works crews in both Brigantine and Atlantic County, they have been working their butts off. When we drove in on Route 30 at 5:00 this AM it almost looked like nothing had happened at all. On the island they were scouring the streets with dump trucks and a front-end loader clearing debris as fast as folks moved it to the street.There was also a massive amount of sand on the streets on the north end of the island, crews were diligently clearing it.

We got about 3' of water on our street, below my finished floor but unfortunately above the floor level of my work shed. The most dramatic damage was to my CT36, it basically was full of water.

Curious about the best repair/replacement route. The unit is about 2 years old but lightly used. The tub is fine, HEPA filter still looks new. Can I send the top 1/2 in for repair?

RMW
 
Bob was having some trouble getting these posted last night. So, these are being posted on his behalf.

Sorry, Bob. Your last message got snagged in my spam filter or I would have done this sooner.

I hope everyone in the Northeast is hanging in there and life returns to normal as quickly as possible.

Shane

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That tree has a badass looking crotch burl, Bob, please tell me thats not a cherry tree.  (take that, Shane)

Hog that thing out and make a table top called Sandy.

I had a maple come down and I have been weathering what will be my future outdoor fireside log bench, called Katrina.
 
Scott B. said:
That tree has a badass looking crotch burl, Bob, please tell me thats not a cherry tree.  (take that, Shane)

Hog that thing out and make a table top called Sandy.

I had a maple come down and I have been weathering what will be my future outdoor fireside log bench, called Katrina.
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Hey Scott,

The majority of trees affected were very large old Dutch elms. Even more of a shame because I think they are already on some kind of endangered list.

  Bob
 
My power came on just a couple of hours ago. Overall just about 6 days. Cell phone service was out 4 days. My wife was traveling so she was unable to contact me for that period of time. The messages I found from her on my voice mail were really hard to listen to.

Fortunately no damage to the house but the trees in the area took a tough hit and many will be missed. Mostly conifers that provided privacy.

Now that we have power in this area gas lines are starting to recede.

The utility trucks that repaired the wiring in my neighborhood had California plates on them. The crew said they were flow in by commercial passenger airline but the trucks were airlifted in by the military.

I had a generator to run the fridge and a couple of other small devices, but no transfer switch so I didn't run the furnace. Missed it big time because the temps here were mostly in the 40s down to a low of 30 at night.

Most of my bad memories include being cold.

Many people had far worse experiences than I did. It's really sobering to realize that I was lucky compared to a lot of people.
 
Finally got power back yesterday at about 3:30PM.  Not any damage in our yard but I did have to set out cones in front of next door neighbors house to guide people around fallen wires with tree hanging across.  Others in neighborhood not so lucky. 

Whenever we have a severe weather forecast, I park all of my vehicles in widely seperated locations so all don't get hit at once.  A neighbor had a tree fall on ALL THREE of his vehicles (two cars and his truck)  Another about 3/4 mile away had a double hit on his house.  Totally demolished.  Many others had smilar sad stories to tell.  I hope we hear othing worse than we have so far.

We have had line and tree crews in Ridgefield from as far away as Washington (state).  In our neighborhood, we had tree crew from South Carolina and the line crew was from Lansing, Michigan.  The National Guard unburied the house with the double hit.  It is great that so many could help from so far away.
Tinker

 
Bob Marino said:
Scott B. said:
That tree has a badass looking crotch burl, Bob, please tell me thats not a cherry tree.  (take that, Shane)

Hog that thing out and make a table top called Sandy.

I had a maple come down and I have been weathering what will be my future outdoor fireside log bench, called Katrina.
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Hey Scott,

The majority of trees affected were very large old Dutch elms. Even more of a shame because I think they are already on some kind of endangered list.

  Bob
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Bob, not only on endangered list, i can't believe there are that many around.  They are nearly extinct.
We have one in Center of ridgefield that we are hoping can be saved.  I have one very large American Elm on one of my properties I care for.  We have lost one within past 5 years, but I have been very protective of the one that remains.  Twice annual inspection from my arborist and deep root feeding every two years.  Insect spry every spring.  Come to think of it, that tree gets better care than i give my wife.  [scratch chin] [oops]
Tinker
 
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