Hurricane Sandy

Corrine

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Being referred to as a "Frakenstorm", Hurricane Sandy is headed toward the East Coast.

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I'm in the area that will likely get 30 MPH winds, could be in the "yellow" (up to 50 MPH) depending on how far northwest it is pushed.

Knowing many are closer to the East Coast, please stop in as you can to let us know you are safe.
 
Corrine,
I am a little West of you...California... but still thinking of my East Coast friends to be safe.
This looks like a nasty one coming so take all precautions.

Why are all the real bad hurricanes named after a woman?
Are they all going thru Menapause, Hormone inbalance, or their husband forgot to take out the trash?
Dennis
 
In NYC - 2nd hurricane in a year. Weird. We're on the other side of the island and on high ground, in a nice pre-war building on the courtyard side. We should be OK this year too :).
 
I hope everyone over the other side of the Atlantic in the hurricanes wake stay safe. We don't know how lightly we get it over here.
 
Expect gusts starting 30 MPH and (hopefully) peaking at 35-50 MPH before it goes (hopefully not taking our power with it). My generator is on the fritz (carburator issues), so no power means dead in the water (pardon the pun). Have 2 batteries for laptop and could go to dialup (UGH!) to check in (assuming we don't lose phone too), but otherwise if we lose power, we're as prepared as possible except for heat and nebulizer (didn't get battery backup model).

Yes, there's a huge fireplace and we brought in plenty of wood, but it's a tossup if the heat close enough to matter is better than what the smoke will do to my respiration (and being stuck there won't exactly be comfortable or convenient either).

I guess the biggest thing aside from the health risks to me (I don't expect risks from damage or anything else where we are given the above expectations) is that about all I can do is read - which I love to do, but not necessarily by candlelight.

So here's hoping PEPCO keeps us up and running (for a change).

Oh well, I reckon it's better than having our house washed out to sea by a tsunami or blown apart by 150 MPH gusts. It's bizarre having this type of thing in our area. I think the people who talk about ecolological damage to the planet may have more valid points than I thought.

Kosh
 
I drove in it ~10pm - not very fun on the rural roads here in the Pine Barrrens.

Trees down all over; many roads closed.

Back home safe.
 
Glad we didn't lose power. Schools closed, about 2,000 homes evacuated along the shore of Lake Ontario and a state of emergency declared last night in the town. We have a very large yard with a lot of trees. Fortunately, just branches down all over.
 
Iain, it looks like Jackson in Ocean Co., NJ is about 60 miles from John and Jackson in Camden Co., NJ about 22 miles. Downed trees and power lines have to be cleared first and with so many power outages, it may take a while. Even if they have a cell phone, that service is affected as well. From http://www.app.com/viewart/20121030...th-Ocean-counties?odyssey=mod_sectionstories:

Jersey Central Power & Light reports 246,014 power outages in Monmouth County, or about 88 percent of its customers, and 205,761 power outages in Ocean County, or about 85 percent of its customers, as of 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. Statewide, the utility is reporting 966,837 outages out of 1,093,723 customers.
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Thank Corrine - just heard from them late last night. I'm not sure which Jackson (didn't realise there was more than one!) but they are about 20-25km from the shore. No power, some trees etc down but no major damage and all are well.
 
This isn't all that astonishing when compared with images of damage from Category 3-5 hurricanes - ever more typical in Florida and the islands/countries a bit more south. What's so amazing is that this one made landfall with such strength and so much further north than normally expected. While we suffered some in Maryland (loss of power periodically for a few minutes or an hour - and for nearly a day only once; some tree limbs down and such), it was nothing like the above anywhere here AFAIK.

I've been worried about this for a while and Sandy just seems to add weight to those concerns - once and even still considered paranoid by some, but proving themselves slowly (as climate changes tend to do), and yet progressing far faster than one might expect from a nature without human interference. We have not been kind to our planet (and continue on that path despite some minor changes in some ways that will not be sufficient) and I fear even we (let alone the next several generations) may face more and worse unless "someone/everyone" does "something/what's needed" to reverse the suicidal course we're on in so many different ways and that are manifesting in so many different ways. Some of us just experienced a small sample of these unexpected (or unwilling to accept as potentially preventable) consequences.

But people have always been more concerned about the present than the future and unless we - as a planet - change our ways and suffer some tough times and hardships now while there is still time (if there is still time and can implement them faster than reasonable and globally - both unlikely), even we let alone future generations may be in for some even more serious problems.

I hope I'm wrong - and even having said that I too continue to do nothing to really contribute to change in even our own lives let alone lobbying for TRUE reform, but the evidence (like Sandy) continues to mount. I wonder what it will take for the world to truly see the danger. I wonder what price will be paid by then - either in changes to reverse things or changes to live with the result of what we've done or will have done by that time. Will survival even be possible except for a tiny percentage - and maybe not even that? I wonder if yet to be developed technology can come to our rescue or if our future is that written in some of the more apocalyptic science fiction movies and books.

Kosh
 

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