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11-01-2012, 10:57 PM | #55 |
yeah we're ok. loss of power going on 3days now.
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I left in the late morning on September 11th 2008 and headed up US 59 toward Lufkin and then Shreveport, LA. I spent that night in Shreveport and got the last room in my hotel. The desk clerk told me the hotel was mostly filled with people fleeing a potential hit from Hurricane Ike. The room I snagged was actually only available for that night and the entire hotel was already booked for the next night. I'd never been to Graceland, so I decided to spend the next night -- the night of the hurricane (9-12-08 to 9-13-08) in Memphis and go to Graceland the next day. I drove toward Memphis the next day and stopped just short of Little Rock, AR at a Starbucks to let rush hour pass by and catch up on a couple of things. I came across a picture on the internet (posted just a few minutes earlier) that showed a car at a point on US 59 where I had been almost exactly 24 hours earlier. I had sailed through that stretch with no traffic. The picture showed the person and car 24 hours later in a virtual parking lot on this rairly rural stretch of US 59. Rush hour passed, and I continued toward Memphis and arrived at my hotel there. I watched some weather news and then went to bed, sleeping through the time Ike was hitting the Houston area. Ike continued through Arkansas and eventually up into the rust Belt and beyond. I walked outside in the morning and looked out over the balcony. The wind (and Memphis is 135 miles East of Little Rock) had picked up ALL of the outdoor furniture in the pool area and deposited ALL of it INTO the pool. Outdoor furniture from other areas was also strewn in new areas. I stayed one more night and was back at my house on the 15th, 2 days after Ike hit. My next door neighbors had ridden out the storm in a building one of their sons owns and they were fine and their house was fine. My neighbors next to them decided to stay in their house and ride it out. He is one tough soldier (literally) and still serves reserve duty when duty calls. He said his house shook and HE and his family were scared. He, his house,and his family ended up being fine. the day after I returned he was being lowered onto Galveston Island (a little over 70 miles from us) on a wire out of a helicopter -- something to do with his reserve duty. I never did go down to look at Galveston Island. Parts of it (I heard and saw pictures) seem similar to damage caused from Sandy. Ike was a much stronger (than Sandy) Category 4, but it was 'only' 600 miles wide (vs 900) and was hitting, obviously, a MUCH less populated metro area. During construction of my house , my construction manager kept mentioning that hurricane clips were being used in the construction of my house and that this was above code (hurricane clips aren't required here once you get more than 50 miles inland from the Gulf). I had my house inspected after Ike and the inspector said all was finer and added "this is a really well built house". Considering that the storm (I'm told) was at 108-112 mph (high Category 2, low Category 3) as it moved through my subdivision, I was pretty happy. I needed to get gas the day after I got back. I spent about 4 hours in line at one station and then they ran out of gas. Then I spent 2 1/2 hours in line at another station and then someone drove by and said another station nearby now had electricity and had just opened about a mile away. i drove to that station and was able to fill up about 30 minutes later. Seven hours in gas lines, 3 days after the storm. Given the much higher per square mile concentration of people in much of the Northeast (as well as other factors) the gas scenario (in your Tri-State area especially) appears to be 'orders of magnitude' worse. This might be one time that the mandatory attendant law in New Jersey is actually beneficial and keeps tensions from coming to a boiling point in a normally routine situation. We had water and gas service in my subdivision after Ike, but we didn;t have power for 3 weeks. In general, those of us who are single just toughed it out and families bought generators. there were downed trees and downed power lines for miles in each direction. There are many Starbucks in my area and many of them were able to get generators. The ones that did were constantly packed. People were sitting on the floor and half the time even the floor was full and people had to go outside...no AC outlets outside. Without power at home, many people were deprived of internet connections (remember this was pre 4G and pre iPad), and the WiFi network at Starbucks was up. An amazing number of out of state insurance adjusters were working out of these Starbucks locations. The only two things that bugged me re the after math (other than 3 weeks without power inside my house) were parking outside (re now power for my garage door opener) and the exhaust fumes that hund in our neighborhood from all of the generators. All in all, microscopic, trivial annoyances compared to what others went through and what so many Sandy victims are going through. My heart goes out to all of you who are suffering through the aftermath of Sandy. Last edited by nookandcrannycar; 11-02-2012 at 10:10 PM. Reason: Typo - My not Ny |
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11-02-2012, 03:57 AM | #57 |
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11-02-2012, 04:07 PM | #58 |
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I wish I was located near ctscott
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11-02-2012, 10:09 PM | #61 |
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11-09-2012, 05:59 PM | #62 |
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Hey Nook, Thanks for thinking about all of us. Things are pretty crazy here. Lots of friends with no electric still. No heat and sometimes no working toilet, now for weeks. It's pretty crazy. The gas shortage is pretty crazy, I'm sure it's just as bad in CT and probably even worse in Jersey. And now many places aren't allowing people to fill containers. My friends in Red Hook all offered up their drowned cars to the people who needed gas for generators and we went around siphoning last week. Enviri, I'm really sorry about the damage to your car. Hope you guys who lost power finally got it back.
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11-09-2012, 10:13 PM | #63 |
in the beach areas in CT, everyone's in a shelter waiting for the insurance to deem the houses to be condemned or not. everyone about 1.5mile away from shore, life is normal. Gas is like normal, or near normal. The damages are small dents. nothing big. It's one of those things that irk you for the first few days then it's like..."eh, not worth the 300$ per dent fix"
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11-09-2012, 10:45 PM | #64 |
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i know what you mean. it's so weird to go inland in Brooklyn where life is virtually normal (except the gas lines) and then go to Red Hook, or worse, the Rockaways, where everything is still so, so bad. My family at least has power (except my sister) now because of course the priority was getting Manhattan sorted (downtown was dark for almost a week and driving down there was eery if awesome). I have about twelve friends, all in Red Hook, who had to move permanently and lost almost everything. And our friends who own businesses there are screwed. People have been amazing though. My husband was on BBC World News (he's English) and after his friends saw it, manyl donated money (and because of the exchange rate, they donated quite a bit) So many volunteers and donations in Red Hook, it does warm my heart. I'm just sad for all of the people who are trapped on the higher floors of the projects (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.1197748), that sounds like total hell. switching castes, I was in Southport last week. I helped my aunt and visited a friend who moved up there recently. The fire fighters are awesome up there and they drove over a truck to power her sump pump. The gas situation was not great then so I thought it would be worse by now. i had to drive north on Post Road to find a station both with power and fuel but not too much of a wait once I found one. Glad the dents aren't too bad.
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