Northeasterners: What say you of this Mother of all Storms approaching?

Help!I'maRock! said:
that's a very good question. at this point, the prudent thing for him to do is collect the insurance money and peace out. OTOH, this will be the second disaster the place has weathered (no pun intended) and he takes pride in being a stalwart of the community. been trying to reach him, but he lives right on the water in Freeport and the entire south shore is without power.
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Help!I'maRock! said:
that's a very good question. at this point, the prudent thing for him to do is collect the insurance money and peace out. OTOH, this will be the second disaster the place has weathered (no pun intended) and he takes pride in being a stalwart of the community. been trying to reach him, but he lives right on the water in Freeport and the entire south shore is without power.
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If he has flood insurance there will be plenty of options. Business and home owner's insurance will not cover a cent of rising water damage, however. Sadly, there will be many in NY and NJ that will learn this too late. :(
 
Yeah, we'll see. We had a fire 9 years ago and I know he improved the insurance since then. But I have no idea. I'm more worried about the place than my stuff.
 
We had a big tree come down in the front yard - probably 30" diameter at the base. Fortunately it fell away from the house. Unfortunately, it fell over the road and knocked out the power line. That was about 8:30 Monday night. Emergency crews blocked the road that night. Power company came in the morning. They indicated that the line was cold, so the neighbors and I broke out some chainsaws and got the tree cut up and the road cleared. Power company worked all day and finally got the power turned back on by about 7:embarrassed:0 last night.

So overall, not too bad. Problem is that the fallen tree has left another similar sized tree looking pretty precarious, so I may have to drop some serious $ having a tree company come and take that one down. Joy.
 
Gary Blanchard said:
Carol really gets into this stuff. She'll watch the Weather Channel constantly the minute there is a hint of a storm anywhere near by, she gets all worked up about having emergency supplies, and has spent all weekend agonizing over whether we should go to work Monday. I love her dearly, but this gets on my nerves something awful. I got an Email saying that all staff should report tomorrow even if the school closes. She'll have a fit when I leave in the morning putting my life in danger. Keep in mind we are nowhere near the coast. :rolleyes:
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I married into an entire family of obsessive weather watchers and it's at least three generations worth. I think my son is already developing a little of the bug at 3 years old so I can prolly call it 4 generations soon. I haven't dealt with it all that well... Let me just leave it at that :)
 
Psychotronic said:
Yeah, how's it down there, Altoid? You guys ok?
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Yeah luckily for us, this storm was really a non-event. I mean we did have lots of tree damage around DC and car accidents but we didn't even lose power through the storm. Everything is back to normal for us today. Mrs. Altoidman said the funniest thing ever "Pepco plays like the Buccaneers" (we're originally from Tampa).

I'm back into the work routine today and sitting here trying to figure how I can best help the people in the NYC/NJ area. I don't know whether to just give a pile of money to $charity or go donate blood or what.
 
i'm "working from home" today. 3 of our 4 offices are without power or are under water. no room for me at the office i work at.

no word on the music school, though the family is safe.

amp tech is stuck in Tucson for his real job trying to get a flight home. probably doesn't have a home to come back to. this is why we left Chicago early. better to be here and deal than to be stranded somewhere feeling helpless.
 
We're still with out power. PECO is saying Saturday but I think it will be sooner than that. T-Mobile and Sprint were offline in my county Monday through this morning. Verizon and AT&T were fine.

Tons of trees down, wires snapped. Not as much rain as wind damage. Most of the roads between my home and work are shut down with large trees blocking travel.
 
Gary Blanchard said:
There must be a point where you are giving advance warning that doesn't move into "creating a panic" mode, but the news media will proabably never find it. :ack:
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I live in South Florida so I am very familiar with the hurricanes and the media mess they create. For those with a brain, being prepared is part of living here. I have a generator and near the beginning of the hurrican season, I fill up some gas cans one at a time. After the season, I start using them in my car. We keep water on hand all the time anyway and we have shutters for the windows. We have candles and hurricane lamps in the closet and battery operated and crank radios.

Our local media is very versed in these storms and probably has more balance than the nationl media or the media up north. I have said for years that hurricanes sell though. Home Depot sells a lot of plywood when a storm approaches and grocery stores do some major rotation of stock. Gas stations sell a bunch fo gas too. I'd still rather see people get duped into over preparing than to be a tough guy and get into real trouble.

My advice would always be, if you are near the water or in the path of a monster and you can leave............. leave. Winds near. If you are just going to get pretty bad weather and safety from the storm isnt a huge issue, be prepared to live without power for a while after. Unfortunately I cant leave because I work for a local government and I'm on the emergency management team. If a storm hits, I have to lock down in the EOC.

At this point, I hope a lot of people fell for the hype.
 
We still have power, but lots of the surrounding areas are out.

Snow seems to be done. It turned to snow last night and warmed up to the upper 30s overnight, melting off most of the accumulation.
 
Haven't checked this thread until this morning. :embarrassed:

It wasn't that bad where I am, minor flooding, wind took some trees down, etc. Power flickered a few times but never lost it, I really can't complain at all, could have been much worse for us. Unfortunately my brother has a beach house in Avalon, NJ, a town completely ravaged from the storm, hope everything is relatively ok there.
 
Lost power for a day, but more importantly we lost a chunk of our roof, causing significant interior water damage. Every bucket, cooking pot and garbage can I could find was put to use to catch the streams of water coming through the ceilings in my house.

I lucked out, though, as my neighbor was able to call a roofer and actually get him to show up at 9:embarrassed:0 AM yesterday, so I got him to tarp my roof. Sure thing, my friend -- $1500. You read that right. I called my insurance company and they agreed to pay it as it would surely be less than the cost of further damage without it. Of course, I'm going to need a whole new roof, but at least the rain has stopped, the leaks are covered, and we have power back now.

My folks didn't fare as well, I'm afraid. The storm surge got up to about 10' on the island, and the ocean met the bay. Oh, and by the time my Aunt across the street was sufficiently freaked out enough to call for rescue, it was too late for them to safely come and get her. She made it out yesterday, though. No gas or electricity for 4-6 weeks there, they're saying.
 
Here's the end of my folk's street, about 50 yards from their house.

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