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Andrew Bitner
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down here in DC, we've had some trees down and power outages (we didn't lose power in alexandria but communities around us did)... but absolutely nothing like what our northern neighbors experienced. my sister (in central NJ) is without power and her basement has flooded; haven't found out what's up with my brother in eastern PA. my in-laws (just outside NYC) are without power but not flooded. my heart is really breaking for the shore communities that were ravaged by sandy. seaside heights, point pleasant beach... so many places, just GONE. rebuilding will take years, IF it can be afforded. same with a large part of NYC's subway system. sandy is going to be a curseword for many people for a long, long time to come. hope everyone on this forum made it through sandy as well as we did, and our thoughts and prayers to those who didn't.
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John Byrne
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A little driving around reveals there are many people for whom a natural disaster is taken as per mission to suspend all rules and logic. "Why, sure I can pull straight out here without checking for oncoming traffic!" "Gee, think I'll make a U-Turn in the middle of this two lane road!" "Say, there's a fallen branch on the road ahead! I'll ignore the traffic coming the other way and swerve into the center of the road and stay there for half a block!"Had to drive UNDER a few fallen trees -- but scariest of all was the top of a decapitated power pole suspended above the road like some electric Sword of Damacles!
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Vinny Valenti
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I'm still powerless, but I see that crews are working to replace
telephone poles just up the street, so hopefully it won't be too much
longer for me. I see that neighboring Commack is up and running, so
now I know where to go for groceries and gas for the car. Barbequing a
steak in the back yard as we speak!
I'm using the UPS that was meant to keep my computers running as an
emergency iPhone/iPod charging station - which uses much less juice
than its rated for. So that plus the car charger and power inverter
should keep me online for the foreseeable future, albeit sparingly. At
least both Verizon and AT&T's mobile networks are more stable today!
Like JB, I can't complain - we only lost a large branch off of our tree and
a few pieces of roof siding - nothing compared to the suffering some
some are enduring now. The north shore of Long Island is fairly hilly, so
there was never a flood risk. My old neighborhood in Brooklyn,
however, was hit pretty badly.
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Michael Penn
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Out on Long Island, south shore, I escaped with no damage. No power, so no lights and no heat. But immediate neighbors had their houses ruined and cars totaled. I understand that Long Beach, NY, is virtually gone, swept away. Devastation. I'm only a friend's house this second and able to charge my computer and phone because they are one of the very few with power.
No idea when my house will be restored. I've been told the Verizon towers are down and out, and that explains why nobody in my whole area can make a call and can barely text if at all. But, in the end, those are trivialities.
No lights on almost every street, but people have been driving very courteously, I'm glad to say.
Stay safe, all!
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Thom Price
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A little driving around reveals there are many people for whom a natural disaster is taken as per mission to suspend all rules and logic ***
I'd love to blame it on weather aftermath but around here, at least, people drive like idiots on a regular basis. A friend of mine doesn't drive, so I occasionally run him on an errand. A few months back, he commented "You're always so angry when you drive." Now I point out everytime someone does something idiotic on the road: cutting me off, swerving too close, driving 25 miles under the limit, etc. "See, this is why I'm always angry!"
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Robert LaGuardia
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The power in my neighborhood in the Bronx just came back on.
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Aaron Smith
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Okay, this is getting annoying now. 65 hours without power
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John Byrne
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Approaching 65 hours here, too, breaking last year's "record". Definitely calling about a generator!! Getting some work done at the kitchen table, where there's plenty of light. Layouts only, but anything done now will not need to be done later!
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Stephen Churay
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Hope gasoline is available in your area. You'll be surprised how fast
you go through 20 gallons with a generator.
Plan on the power being out for a solid week. It's just my experience
with these types of things. Anything earlier is gravy. Anything later and
you may want to be a little concerned.
Sorry to hear you're going through this. Here in Louisiana, we do it
about once every 3-5 years. There's nothing fun about it.
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Ed Fahey
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I ended up buying a small generator last summer. It can't run my entire house, but I fired it up and watched tv and had heat and a few outlets going to charge my phone, run the fridge a few hours a day, etc. Really took the edge off the 2 days I was without power earlier this week. Good luck to all.
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Brad Brickley
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I'd like to get one of those automatic natural gas generators installed. We haven't had many outages here in Washington state the last few years, but thinking we're due. We had a huge snow/ice stem back in 1990 that power was off over a week in some areas.
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Kevin Brown
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They're saying some parts of NJ may not get power for 7-10 days...
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