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Best of luck to everyone!

Call it Crazy says

AC is underwater now at low tide (the real water, not mortgage)..

Pics? As of a couple of minutes ago, my local TV news just said that the storm speed has picked up considerably, so it will hit the shore earlier, and hopefully pass by quicker, leaving less rain. It's also going to hit further south, meaning it's aimed at Wildwood, NJ and should go right over the Cape May bridge. I expect the recent beach replenishment in Atlantic City to save the boardwalk.

http://imageshack.us/a/img191/4891/atlanticcity006.jpg

If you have access to an HF radio and can get yourself over to 7.268 or 7.272 MHZ there are nets going with much better reports on conditions than anything available from the media.

One more reason not to build on bottom land or steep hillsides.

Holy crap.

The apartment building across my balcony got the roof blown away just a minute ago. Things are getting scary now.

No mega-damage yet, but a crane in NYC is falling over:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/nyregion/crane-accident-at-one57-in-midtown.html

I have had to vacuum out my basement and empty my shop vac 3 times already. I think it holds maybe 2 gallons before I have to empty it, if even that much. I think my last attempt to fix this problem helped some. This is the first time this year I have had this happen.

Hope for the best but be prepared, this is from Google:

http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=98b903381f2f27d&hl=en&gl=US&source=web

"Historic and life threatening coastal flooding expected through Tuesday morning."

No mega-damage yet, but a crane in NYC is falling over:

Leaving a crane out during a hurricane is just plain stupid. Even in Florida, we're not that dumb and we have more cranes than people.

Power is out, but otherwise no worse for the wear thankfully.

Still no power, bit major roads in the area are passable, and some parts of town have been restored.

It passed my neck of woods in Northern Virginia. My apartment management had covered plastic sheet over the roof that's been blown away. I was heck worried about the same thing could happen to my building though, it hadn't happened. I do not have power loss except few flickerings turned my computer on and off yesterday. About 180,000 household in the area lost power, few people's home got busted due to fallen trees. some flooding here and there etc, but that's about it.

But as I see what happened in NJ and NY, I am begining to worry about people there. ECBB logged in and made a post, so I guess he is ok. But TechG is not on yet, and his place is fairly close to Atlantic city, so... Let's hope nothing bad happened to him.

I've been about much of southern\central NJ today,,,,so long as you're not on the coastline,,,the damage from the storms at the end of june were far greater,,,and likely cleared out most of the deadwood.

It could be worse ,but no power means no heat and no, water so in crashing at an old friends tonight.

For what it's worth the outages seem sporadic.

The zombies... tommorow is the halloween. This storm completely ruined the day, so I don't think there will be marijuana smoking kids kicking my door yelling treat or FU. But for those people suffering w/o power, I wish they fix everything soon.

I will go drive to those area I have my eyes on tomorrow, will check what it is like after major storm.

I have no electricity at home. I expect the food in my freezer and refrigerator to last quite some time, since I can't heat the house (essentially the whole house is a refrigerator). Most of my neighborhood is out (as in everything south of a certain point is out). It's dark and boring at home. My cats are way more cuddly though, since I am the only warm thing in the house.

Don't we have someone from Egg Harbor, NJ that posts here often? Anyone heard from them?

Call it Crazy says

Saw one open Dunkin Donuts with power, they had about 25 to 30 cars in line for their drive thru... apparently no one stocked up on donuts before the storm.

Pics?

This video shows the Atlantic City beach being 125 feet before the storm and 25 feet afterwards.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/10/hurricane-sandy-destroys-atlantic-city-boardwalk/

What it's not telling you is that it was 25 feet a couple of years ago, and the recent beach replenishment probably saved much of the boardwalk.

Atlantic City Boardwalk Cats return:
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/pets/Atlantic-Citys-celebrated-boardwalk-cats-weather-Sandy.html

when the eye of the storm passed over Atlantic City, apparently, according to one of the security guards at a casino, 25 cats were walking single file down the boardwalk looking just fine. And he said the cats he looks after - Pepper, Pewee - were all fine.

I was kind of expecting this to happen, since they aren't letting people on the island:

I am still trying to determine if this is real:

zzyzzx says

I am still trying to determine if this is real:

Snopes says its a fake: http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/sandy.asp

I hope you get power back soon. In the meantime, my advice: whiskey is a perfectly serviceable drink neat at room temperature, and in a pinch can also serve as an antiseptic.

bdrasin says

I hope you get power back soon. In the meantime, my advice: whiskey is a perfectly serviceable drink neat at room temperature, and in a pinch can also serve as an antiseptic.

I still have ice in my freezer, and since my whole house is now a refrigerator, I don't have to worry about any of it spoiling.

Gallery of fake Hurricane Sandy pics:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/sandy.asp

Now for a real pic:

Oh, wow. That window is damn tight. Mine will let the water in in a no time. Want to know what brand window is that.

Right now I am putting weather tape arround my windows and door edge to reduce this crazy draft I got in the winter.

I surveyed the beaches in 1992 during the last major storm that destroyed the shore. Back then, the boardwalks all got crushed and everyone's house flooded. This is an entire order of magnitude worse. This storm washed away homes. The rest of the state mostly suffered down power lines and trees all over the place. Any town that bordered the water looks like a bomb went off.

Call it Crazy says

Power isn't expected back on till maybe next week, the "locals" are starting to really get "restless".

If you to the TripAdvisr Atlantic City forum people are posting about how they are going to go to Atlantic City when it opens if they still think they are going to not have electricity for some time.

zzyzzx, got your power back on?

It's getting cold. 30's in the morning, 50's in the afternoon definitely is harsh for those people in affected area. Hope they got their power back on so that they can stay warm.

seaside says

zzyzzx, got your power back on?

Yes, I got my electricity back on Thursday morning. I was at work at the time, so I wasn't able to turn on the heat until after I got home then took one of my cats to the vet. I was out for around 1.5 days. Not even long enough for anything in my freezer to defrost, even a little. Not surprising since essentially my whole house was a refrigerator. This is the longest power outage I have had since I moved there in 2003. I figure they wouldn't let my whole neighborhood be out for long since the utility probably loses too much money if they do.

zzyzzx says

I figure they wouldn't let my whole neighborhood be out for long since the utility probably loses too much money if they do.

lol--I wish PSEG in NJ thought that way. I'm still out and the ETA that they are giving everyone is Nov. 9th.

I'm reasonably sure that I said here (maybe on another message board) predicted that (most likely Caesars) would have a Hurricane sale in Atlantic City, and while I haven't seen that, I do see bunches of room offers in my Total Rewards account

How to Prepare For Hurricane Sandy

tatupu70 says

ol--I wish PSEG in NJ thought that way. I'm still out and the ETA that they are giving everyone is Nov. 9th.

At least they are giving you an ETA. BGE refused to do that. Probably would be helpful if your local utility union wasn't tuning away non union help:

http://www.waff.com/story/19981857/some-nonunion-ala-crews-turned-away-from-sandy-recovery

A six man crew from Decatur Utilities headed up there this week, but Derrick Moore, one of the Decatur workers, said they were told by crews in New Jersey that they can't do any work there since they're not union employees.

The general manager of Decatur Utilities, Ray Hardin told Fox Business they were presented documents from the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers at a staging area in Virginia. The documents stated they had to affiliate with a union to work, which the crews could not agree to.

Atlantic City casinos reopened at 2PM today!

http://mousebreath.com/2012/11/atlantic-city-boardwalk-cats-weather-hurricane-sandy/

Atlantic City boardwalk cats weather Hurricane Sandy

zzyzzx says

At least they are giving you an ETA. BGE refused to do that. Probably would be helpful if your local utility union wasn't tuning away non union help:

lol--I'd rather have no ETA and power like you...

Finally came back on Sunday AM

It's really heartbreaking to see the headline about 40,000 people who have no power, with more winter weather on the way.

elliemae says

40,000 people who have no power

It's a good argument for more localized power generation.

Dependencies on centralized sources of anything are risky. Centralized sources are often cheaper because of economies of scale, but they leave you vulnerable.

elliemae says

It's really heartbreaking to see the headline about 40,000 people who have no power, with more winter weather on the way.

I think it's much more than that. In NJ, I'm pretty sure the number is in the hundreds of thousands. Same in Long Island and NYC