We just went out for tacos and a drive around our area to survey the damage. Overall, the damage in our area is light with relatively few uprooted trees and mostly passable roadways. However, three houses down the hill from us the power line is down, knocking out power for at least a couple of miles in the direction. While, a half mile up the hill, the street light is out. Somehow, we live in a tiny pocket of no more than twenty homes that avoided a power outage. And that’s a good thing because there is no telling how many days it will be before power is restored to those who lost it. Someone has already put up yard signs all over advertising generators.
There is flooding is some of the low-lying areas around here, too, but they are predicting that it will recede fairly quickly. Compared to what people south and east of here experienced, we got off lightly.
What did you experience in your area?
Where is “our area”? Southeast PA?
Yes .. as I live somewhere close to Boo .. and we lost power for about 17 hrs here .. from 8 last night .. to about an hour ago
yes. Northern Chester County.
Thanks, I had a terrific week near there once. Pendle Hill – near Media – amazing little oasis of peace at the time.
I’m very glad you’re OK.
Check out the photo of taxis at this link. It will expand–
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-30/new-york-city-wakes-up-to-fires-flooding-from-hurricane-san
dy.html
Amazing and striking. It might be a good time not to buy any used cars from the east coast – for the next month or two.
I hate to ask the question, but how will this affect the election? There aren’t many I trust more on that question than you.
At this point, I see little effect, but I don’t live in teh area. Obama did the right thing by staying at the WH. The power outages should be fixed quickly.
Had this been next Sat, different story.
The same as you: surprised at how we experienced little to zero damage. Just a lot of leaves. I hope my train is operating tomorrow. Even if the Feds didn’t shut down, I’d have no way to get to work without it. Which gives me some solidarity with New Yorkers…how are people going to get to work without the subway?
I had MSNBC on the teevee earlier, and they were discussing this with regard to opening the New York airports. Their point was that getting the airports physically functional was one thing, but that there won’t be nearly enough people to staff them until the subway and transit system return to something resembling full service.
SW Ohio (Dayton) is fine. We have had heavy winds for three days and last night was definitley the worst, but no major damage. We did get a surprise snowfall, but it melted later this morning and now it’s just very cold and rainy.
Romney had a scheduled campaign rally today in one of our suburbs, and he’s still going to be there, but not as a campaign stop, but rather a “Disaster Relief Fundraiser”. Yeh, right. Romney blows harder than any damaging winds I’ve ever seen.
There we go – standard Romney approach – use a natural disaster to make money for yourself. This is the political version of vulture capitalism.
I experienced beer drinking and netflix.
Friends in Baltimore say it was just another storm. Isn’t it amazing what a difference a couple of hundred miles can make?
We’re good in eastern NC, 80 miles from the Atlantic coast. Hardly any wind, LOTS of rain, no trees fell over… this time. But folks on the Outer Banks and low-lying areas, not so good with major flooding, storm surge damage and power outage. Ocracoke Island was under two feet of standing water last night. The highway in Nags Head is a bunch of jigsaw puzzle pieces.
Farm Bureau recently informed us they will no longer insure homes on the coastal plain even tho ours isn’t in danger like others. They lost something like $422 billion last year. Sandy might put them out of business entirely. It’s an issue that will need resolution for people who live in areas like ours. Like being denied or overcharged for health insurance, homeowners with a “pre-existing condition” need some protection especially when insurance is “mandated” by their mortgage holder.
I know it’s hard for me, too, to have sympathy for people who buy over-priced houses on sandbars but think of the people in the same county who have to pay the same rate without the same risk or degree of foolishness. We pay 20% more than the county next door because 35 miles south of us on the inland waterway, people continue to live in flood zones that WEREN’T flood zones a decade ago. They are kind of stuck with those houses now–with literally underwater mortgages.
We’re in Manhattan, but in an area with some elevation (Carnegie Hill). No flooding, even of the basement, since the rains were not extreme.
Went for a couple of strolls in the neighborhood today. Very quiet in the morning, lots of folks out this afternoon. Bus service started again around 5 pm, though subway service is probably days away in some areas.
This was the worst we saw during our strolls:
So glad you guys are doing well and the damage around you isn’t the devastation we’re seeing on TV in some areas. Our niece’s apt. and restaurant in lower Manhattan seem to have come through in good shape. Of course she won’t have power for several days/weeks yet.