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Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« on: October 27, 2012, 10:03:10 pm »
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How are you East Coast f.ds'ers planning around Sandy?

Personally, I see it as a great excuse to get in some boardgaming :-)
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2012, 11:55:30 pm »
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I'm going to be travelling from Long Island back to Ithaca tomorrow. I am dreading NYC traffic. Once I get back it's going to be tea, baseball, and grading terrible lab reports.

And if the lab reports are really terrible, that tea might be scotch instead.
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2012, 12:09:19 am »
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I'm going to wing it.
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2012, 12:59:42 am »
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2012, 01:20:55 am »
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No special plans other than actually hooking up my generator (vs. just purchasing it)
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2012, 01:41:12 pm »
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As some on the forums know, I just moved to DC from Detroit. As such, I've never in my life paid attention to hurricanes. Now everyone here is panicking. Don't these things just, like, hit Miami or something? I have no idea why everybody is so scared, or what's about to happen.
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2012, 02:19:56 pm »
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Sometimes they stay in the southeast. Sometimes they crawl up the entire coast. Irene managed to flood basically the entire state of Vermont last summer.
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2012, 02:50:28 pm »
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As some on the forums know, I just moved to DC from Detroit. As such, I've never in my life paid attention to hurricanes. Now everyone here is panicking. Don't these things just, like, hit Miami or something? I have no idea why everybody is so scared, or what's about to happen.

One of the problems is that we rarely get big storms in this part of the country. As such, we really don't have the infrastructure to deal with them. Irene didn't even hit that hard, but my brother was without power for 5 days and there were floods everywhere. And by most indications, sandy should hit here even harder.
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2012, 04:05:24 pm »
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Good luck guys!
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2012, 04:51:23 pm »
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Just make sure you live in a house made of bricks, not straw or sticks or anything like that.
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2012, 06:41:46 pm »
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Just make sure you live in a house made of bricks, not straw or sticks or anything like that.
I would have appreciated if the power lines hadn't been built of straws and sticks. I used to live in CT until recently. We had two days without power - i think that put us in the 80% percentile in our town, i.e. we were among the lucky and privileged.
(And if you haven't lived in the US countryside: no electricity means no running water. Which doesn't sounds so bad until you remember you use it for more than drinking and cooking and washing dishes...)

I hope all of you in the NY region will be fine.

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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2012, 04:36:10 pm »
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I'm watching the East River right now and it is getting nuts.  Waves are starting to overflow some of the piers and the wind is insane.
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2012, 04:45:37 pm »
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Also there is a giant crane in Midtown that has been ripped off the building and is now hanging precariously in the air.

Incidentally the crane is busy constructing what looks like a penthouse fit only for Tony Stark.
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #13 on: October 29, 2012, 04:46:35 pm »
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Pics of the crane!

The hudson, at least from what I can see, seems so tame.  It hasn't even manage to flood the pier.
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2012, 04:47:32 pm »
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Pic: http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/10/29/one57_crane_collapses_with_big_boom_in_midtown.php

The piers here aren't submerged.  But every once in a while a wave overflows onto it.
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #15 on: October 29, 2012, 05:36:06 pm »
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Were you not supposed to have evacuated?
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #16 on: October 29, 2012, 05:37:48 pm »
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Generator is hooked up and ready to go, but no need to use it yet.  Watching my trees sway back and forth in the wind. 
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #17 on: October 29, 2012, 05:53:23 pm »
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not much action here up in troy ny. storm surge has the hudson sitting real high and already about to flood some of the lower lying areas though.
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #18 on: October 29, 2012, 06:12:37 pm »
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Were you not supposed to have evacuated?

Yes, but I'm right on the border of the evacuation zone and high up enough to not worry about flooding. 
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #19 on: October 29, 2012, 07:56:45 pm »
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The hudson now touches my building.
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #20 on: October 29, 2012, 08:06:30 pm »
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Wow, from what I've heard, this seems horrible! I hope all those on the East Coast are staying dry and safe!

So glad Hurricanes don't occur up here in the north-west.
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #21 on: October 29, 2012, 08:54:09 pm »
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Power now out in my house, and most of ct from what I can tell.  I have to assume priority will be the coastline though, where there are real problems other than fallen trees
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #22 on: October 29, 2012, 08:59:42 pm »
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This HUGE branch almost damaged my house and barely missed the window. Winds are atrocious right now.



I still have power here in NJ, dunno how long that'll last though.
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #23 on: October 29, 2012, 09:26:49 pm »
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I saw the Lower East Side just totally lose power.  Before:

After:


Flooding in my neighborhood so far:
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Re: Hurricane Sandy (aka the Frankenstorm aka the Snoreastercane)
« Reply #24 on: October 30, 2012, 03:34:31 am »
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I heard there were millions of people with no power.

So, drink all the milk, it's going to go bad anyway and hold on people!

It's kind of cool though to get pics from people who are actually there.
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