OT: Sandy

[Wink96]

And they told me I was crazy to retire to South Carolina.Best I be careful of what I wish for.

 

[Phil]

Three more power failures, the last one is the longest, has been out for a half hour so far.

 

[cohenzone]

Posted on the Men's board 2 hours ago that a friend who lives 3/4 of a mile from me in Hamden had a big Oak split her house. Now it is 3 trees, the third one right through her bedroom. She and her toddler live with her mother. Horrible.

 

[meyers7]

North of the border here (Western Mass), thankfully, not much happening.........yet anyway.

 

[Icebear]

Posted on the Men's board 2 hours ago that a friend who lives 3/4 of a mile from me in Hamden had a big Oak split her house. Now it is 3 trees, the third one right through her bedroom. She and her toddler live with her mother. Horrible.

Prayers that everyone is OK. Blessings to all.

 

[Phil]

Power back, but the night is young

 

[pap49cba]

My brother in Meriden just emailed that things "are getting dicey". (7:00pm)

 

[LesMis89]

We've lost power three times but only once was long enough to start the generator. Power is on right now...

 

[cohenzone]

Prayers that everyone is OK. Blessings to all.

I only communicated with her after #1. But given that she posted on Facebook after #3, I'd guess the people inside were okay, but the house is a mess. And we are 15 miles off the coast.

 

[RadyLady]

well, I'm in upper Manhattan, away from the real problems, but still not having any fun. Cantore better get a move on...that water is coming in fast (watching the weather channel)

 

[OneTrickPony]

Michael was talking about his 'man cave' a few blocks from Grand Central Station.

Try Man-Aquarium...

 

[UConnChapette]

Still have power here in Manchester, but it was an incredibly frustrating day of working at home. All CT locations of my company were closed. We were told if you had the ability to work from home to do so, but if you chose not to you had to take a PTO day. Those who did not have the ability to work remote did not have to take a vacation day. But, the remote VPN couldn't handle the volume of people working remotely so a lot of those trying to work from home couldn't. Not sure if they will get charged a vacation day or not. For me, I got connected before the max log in threshold was met, but it was frustrating and slow. And OF COURSE there was crisis after crisis. I so badly wanted to just bag it and call it a day, but when you work for a property-casualty insurer and you support the claim application and business operations that handle the claims coming out of the storm, I just couldn't do it. I am done playing Superwoman for today. I stopped enough speeding bullets, leaped enough tall buildings in a single bound. Now I am just hoping the power stays on so I can relax and watch some tv. I'll be asleep by 8:15....

 

[Phil]

My sister-in-law was here, and just left a few minutes ago. We lost power again, and I heard a loud crack at the same time. A couple minutes later, my SIL came back to the house, because she saw huge branch come down right in front of her, taking down some wires. We're on a dead end street, and I was just thinking she is trapped in here, then I realized, so are we. If she has left 10 seconds earlier, she would be past it but if she left three seconds earlier, she would have been under it. Her significant other works for CL&P, so we are hoping for good service getting it fixed.

 

[jplotinus]

No power in Ridgefield. Trees down everywhere. On generator for now. This storm is no joke.

 

[TDiNozzo]

Still have power in Fairfield County and in Griswold..... Guess I'm a little lucky to have power in both places

 

[meyers7]

As expected not much of anything here in W. Mass. Some spotty power outages, but thankfully not mine. Left for work this morning with blue skies over my house. Prayers and best wishes for those who actually have to cope with this storm.

 

[Phil]

No cable so no phone and no Internet, except iPad. I miss my Internet. We can't go anywhere, and no one can come here until tree on road is removed

 

[msf22b]

My "caveman" fears for the New York subways seems to have been picled up by Reuters. It doesn't have to take much of a sailor (that's me) to know that when sea water gets into your electrical system, you're in for a big problem.
Let's see when they can get the system up...a week, two, more? This will be a real test of Bloomberg's management skills.
They're going to have to make this one up as they go along (a transport plan). The lack of power will certainly not help.
i'm waiting for the conference in which they will spill the beans.
Michael
Thankfully in Beijing

 

[HuskyNan]

My "caveman" fears for the New York subways seems to have been picled up by Reuters. It doesn't have to take much of a sailor (that's me) to know that when sea water gets into your electrical system, you're in for a big problem.
Let's see when they can get the system up...a week, two, more? This will be a real test of Bloomberg's management skills.
They're going to have to make this one up as they go along (a transport plan). The lack of power will certainly not help.
i'm waiting for the conference in which they will spill the beans.
Michael
Thankfully in Beijing

Cuomo just held a presser.

http://harrison.dailyvoice.com/news/tappan-zee-bridge-reopened-metro-north-still-closed

Is it my imagination or are you assuming everyone is unprepared and clueless?

 

[alexrgct]

I have thankfully survived without losing power in Ellington. Made it through Irene too. The phantom wet snowstorm of a year ago was far worse.

 

[Phil]

We are no longer trapped, they just moved the downed tree, but no power or cable yet.

 

[TDiNozzo]

Just saw my boat is still in one piece... It was on land, with the drain plug out, but with 2 bilge pumps still connected, and parked about 6 ft above high tide. I was thinking all night the water was going to be 10+ ft with the storm surge and my pumps would keep the boat afloat long enough to let the boat float off the jacks, and get blown away, then the batteries would go dead ... the pumps stop, and sink somewhere... Feel much better today...

 

[meyers7]

I was thinking all night the water was going to be 10+ ft with the storm surge and my pumps would keep the boat afloat long enough to let the boat float off the jacks, and get blown away, then the batteries would go dead ... the pumps stop, and sink somewhere... .

The anti-Tony.

Glad it was ok.

 

[Husky7882]

I have thankfully survived without losing power in Ellington. Made it through Irene too. The phantom wet snowstorm of a year ago was far worse.

My thoughts exactly. I think those of us in Ellington lucked out. Last year we were without power or heat for one week, this year we never lost it. My main concern were falling trees, especially after reading Phil's post and remembering the trees separating our house from our neighbor's next door. I'm glad this one's over and hope that this does not turn into an annual event

(after reading some of the accounts from last night and seeing some of the pictures of the aftermath, I haven't stopped counting my blessings.)

 

[huskeynut]

Live in Newtown. It's a disaster. 97 percent of town without power. Two big trees down on our road. We are stuck because the road is a dead end. Generator is running and we have enough propane for five days.

Stay safe out there. It's still dangerous.