Thread: Hurricane Sandy..

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Have been watching the CNN channel,in fact,still am(coffee break,Charlie..)Absolutely horrendous weather..There is a crane 90 storeys up,on a building in Manhattan,that wants to come down..Dont know if its fallen yet..Scary news footage guys..All of you guys n dolls on the Eastern seaboard,,stay safe..Looks ugly..

You get way to many coffee brakes. It is quit windy out even as far away as I am Sandy is blowing here. I have a boy in Virgina beach he says its suposed to get worse tonight.. Barb is probably getting rain & snow. her son Charlie is in Conn. they are realy catching hell

Only one in the morning,and I will have one at 3pm today as well..Plus lunch..Gotta keep me upright..

In preparation, trying to remove any wind blown projectiles from the yard.... all the porch chairs went into the wife's trailer and then put it away in the garage. With the only open bay being the paint booth, had about an inch on either side to spare while backing it through the door, never thought about the height.... just enough clearance!

Originally Posted by MP&C

In preparation, trying to remove any wind blown projectiles from the yard.... all the porch chairs went into the wife's trailer and then put it away in the garage. With the only open bay being the paint booth, had about an inch on either side to spare while backing it through the door, never thought about the height.... just enough clearance!

You are lucky it fits..Not a lot of clearance,,but some is enough..Dont unload it in there,,you might not get it back out..

You folks on the east coast take care.

doing pretty good here. minor flooding and now very windy. gusts up to 50 mph. praying for those poor people north of va. have not heard from charlie since last night but i am sure that he is fine. his base keeps me up to date on what is happening there as much as they can.

just talked to charlie. all the piers are under water. he and everyone else are restricted to barracks. getting gusts there of 80 mph. says that he hopes the galley is open tomorrow.

We sent four safety strike teams out yesterday from Calif to the affected areas, today they sent out 150 power line workers from our own PGE, and two c-130`s of equipment to assist in the power restoration..Hope all is well for those that we know..

Southern California Edison, my former employer, is sending 170 people and a whole slug of equipment to New York; and like Rich posted, Pacific Gas & Electric, the other big power company in California is sending 150 workers and a bunch of equipment. This sort of thing happens all the time, but you seldom hear anything about it in the news.

My wife has a cousin,who has a store in Duane Street,off Broadway West ( I think),about a block and a half from Battery Pt..The place is called Stella..High quality house goods,(towels,sheets n stuff,I think) Havent spoken to her,but I would think she may be under water,going by what I saw on the CNN channel,yesterday and today..I hope everyone else up there is doing alright..gunna take a few days to clean this lot up..But,hey,,there seems to be a lot of folk without a job,who could pitch in and earn their dole money..

We even have four linesmen going out from our little town to pitch in! Maybe it's not nice to say, but it would seem Mother Nature is the best Jobs creator!!! Mother Nature for Prez?????

no matter what our political and other differences are in this country this really brings tears to my eyes. We go through so much sometimes in this country that makes me wonder if we can come through it. When things hit the fan here we all come together. Makes me really proud to be a american.

I was doing some of my normal on line news wandering this morning and came across this from the UK's Daily Mail. This has about the best graphic photos and really shows how much damage there is in the NY-NJ area:

Hurricane Sandy 2012 pictures: FIFTY DEAD... and it's NOT over | Mail Online

It's long, but worth a few minutes look. Ironic - I'm less then 150 miles from this and all we had were some 40-50 mph gusts and almost no rain.

Sure are going to be a bunch of rusty cars starting to show up on ebay and the likes. I'd beware of anything sold out of NJ & NY for awhile. They will hit the scene pretty fast cause they will try to unload them before they start showing, car faxs not going to help.