Hurricane heads north

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Originally posted by AntzDad:


A guy who evacuated left his webcam on. That's not his boat. His neighbor decided to leave it on the lift. This is in Brigantine, NJ, right about where the storm is expected to land. There is a big marsh out there. It's underwater, now. The marsh will still be there, but I don't know where this boat will be, by Wednesday.

livestream from kitchen window

If anyone watched this before the camera went out... The guy who set up the camera saw his house- and the boat!- on some flyover video. Still on the lift. (the boat in the middle of the picture)

We took hurricanes here pretty lightly before Andrew.

New Orleans took katrina pretty lightly too.
You cannot do anything about the loss of property. When you live so close to water, build homes and communities near and on water, this can and will happen.

Property can be replaced, lives cannot.

I remember IKE! Daughter was marine biology student at A & M, Galveston. Horrible, horrible horrible! The city manager & Mayor did not mandate evacuation soon enough. Bolivar peninsula was wiped out, with loss of many lives. Over 100 people killed, at least 25 bodies never recovered...(that's the sanitized version!)

Son entered Tulane 1 yr after Katrina...New Orleans was a MESS & stunk like H***. Still nasty, I hate that place!
Evac'd for Gustav, 2 weeks before Ike hit Galveston. He & buddies went fishing @ Port O'Conner & he caught a 40 lb Pompano!! hahaha! Have some great pics of him "enjoying" the hurricane!!

I grew up in Corpus Christi...we evac'd for Carla in 1961...devastated the city. Boats were on the Courthouse steps. Homes gone off Shoreline & Ocean Dr. Holiday Inn was gone! I'll never forget it!

And, 1 tornado in Dallas area...Scared the begeebers out of me! I'll take the hurricane over tornado, too! At least you have time to prepare & save oneself.

Consider yourself blessed if you made it thru Sandy relatively unscathed. "Things" do not matter.

But help those in need...donate to Red Cross, please! Or provide meals, or get out the chain saw, or haul debris. Or, hug your neighbor & tell them it will be ok!! Whatever...

No heat or power here on the north shore of Long Island. Our town flooded, the water came right over the breakwater they built after the flood in 1991. My wife and I slept in front of the fireplace last night. Its about 55deg in here. This morning I'm going to drive about an hour from here to get a shower. The yards are a mess, trees everywhere, but many people have generators and everyone is out with chain saws. More streets were passable yesterday. We just cut the trees that block them up and leave them where they are. My office has power, I just have to figure out a way to get there.

I'm leaving for a conference in Houston on Friday and my office was smart enough to switch my flight to leave from Philly in case LGA isn't 100% up by then. So, only one more night of this for me. My wife is going up to CT. where my daughter has power so she could bask in the glow of artificial light. The dog is happy down here and the baseball player is in Rome studying. HaHa...Why do I always get the short end?

Im 40 miles inland from where Sandy came ashore.
We never even lost power.. Just because I was lucky does not mean the media over hyped the danger... we see now they did not.

NJ is in a shambles, the Jersey Shore got absolutely crushed and in my neck of the woods in North J, we've been w/o power since Monday night (my entire town is out). People have generators but gas is running low. The best part is the power companies...little in the way of updates. Frustrating.

We've been opening the local PAL gym for movies in the meeting room and hoops for the kids all day. Gotta do something.

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Good going soulslam55!

Not so good going for the American Red Cross®. Evidently to them there is no stat in Staten Island!



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For those without insurance or money in the bank Sandy has turned many lower middle class families to the new poor.

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Where? I dunno'? South Florida maybe.



Jersey Turnpike! Anybody have change?



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For those without insurance or money in the bank Sandy has turned many lower middle class families to the new poor.

After the last four years, I don't know how any middle class family can have enough money in the bank to cover loss of income during the time this will take to clean up.

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Jersey Turnpike! Anybody have change?

Hey Woody, change won't cut it. The toll for traveling the turnpike from one side to another in Pennsylvania is $35.55 !

I guess the clean up will create jobs

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I guess the clean up will create jobs

If that's all it takes.....what do we need politicians for?

And if climate change is the cause.....we ought to be having a booming economy in just a jiffy.

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Originally posted by PA Dino:
[QUOTE] .....what do we need politicians for?

That's what I've wondered for a long time now. It'd be nice to have "leaders" in politics rather than followers who simply follow the money and address and focus only what's popular. But, I guess that the nature of politicians and politics. And apparently, I've become quite a cynic in my old age when it comes to politicians.

I went to Long Island yesterday to help a friends mom clean up. Middle class neighborhood, no flood insurance. Sandy deposited 3 feet of salt water in the house, plus silt. What a mess.

I live on the shoreline of Connecticut where houses but not lives were lost. As we drove the 2 1/2 hours to Long Island I was struck by how the impact just kept going and going. I haven't had power so I don't know much about what has been reported, but I can tell you the devastation and disruption is real.

Of course losing property pales in comparison to the loss of life, but it is depressing for people to lose that which they have worked for. Family treasures. Great grandmas dresser. Being middle class, retired, and looking at extensive home repairs is a big deal.

On a positive note, we got our power and water back last night.

Baseball Mom, you and I could swap stories. Until this year I had a house in Palacios, which took a direct hit by Claudette, and had survived Carla. I was in Houston for Alicia and Allison, and the miss by Rita. Lots of stories.

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Originally posted by twotex:
I went to Long Island yesterday to help a friends mom clean up. Middle class neighborhood, no flood insurance. Sandy deposited 3 feet of salt water in the house, plus silt. What a mess.

I live on the shoreline of Connecticut where houses but not lives were lost. As we drove the 2 1/2 hours to Long Island I was struck by how the impact just kept going and going. I haven't had power so I don't know much about what has been reported, but I can tell you the devastation and disruption is real.

Of course losing property pales in comparison to the loss of life, but it is depressing for people to lose that which they have worked for. Family treasures. Great grandmas dresser. Being middle class, retired, and looking at extensive home repairs is a big deal.

On a positive note, we got our power and water back last night.

Baseball Mom, you and I could swap stories. Until this year I had a house in Palacios, which took a direct hit by Claudette, and had survived Carla. I was in Houston for Alicia and Allison, and the miss by Rita. Lots of stories.

How many of the people around there have flood insurance? I would have to guess very few would have paid extra for it. How often is does it flood around there?

I feel for those people, as it gets very costly to repair flood damage. And around here (gulf coast)flood insurance claims wind damage, and windstorm claims floodwater damage. Neither one wants to pay the full amount and it's too costly for the homeowner to fight. So alot of the repairs are still paid by the homeowner.

twotex-I have a place down in Matagorda(Selkirk Island) and stayed during Claudette. It was kind of weird, some area's very hard hit(mine) and others very little damage. Pretty scary as the storm pass thru.