shrader Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 Very in uneventful in my neck of the woods in the Boston area. I hear there's flooding near my office, which is right on the river, but it is pretty highly elevated above that. Quote
spndnchz Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 Slowly seeing the warnings go from one to two.. and now four for WNY. Quote
LGR4GM Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 My friend in NJ says he lost power around six and flooding everywhere, luckily he lives at the top of the hill. Quiet here in Georgia, just windy. Stay safe everyone. Quote
Eleven Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 The CHUDs are in serious trouble. Â I read it on twitter. Quote
MattPie Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 4 feet of water in the tunnels. Â http://instagram.com/p/RYuVQVG6mq/ Â That's cool. I'm not surprised though, parts of Newark are right at sea-level so the subways are below. The Path train in Jersey City has to be 100 ft below the Hudson. Â Slowly seeing the warnings go from one to two.. and now four for WNY. Â Yeah, it seems like the storm has mostly broken up without dumping a ton of rain here in SE PA, so it'll probably be dumping a lot of that water further North and West. Quote
cdexchange Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 Checking in from Hamburg. Not as windy yet as I had feared, though it will probably pick up a bit soon. No hiccups in the power so far, lights haven't even flickered yet. Sump pump is kicking on every 30 seconds right now, and I have a finished basement...but it's a brand new pump so I'm not too worried. If the power goes out I have an extension cord all ready to hook into my neighbor's genny. Â I have a large pine tree on the northeast corner of my house which is my biggest concern right now. Sure hope it doesn't end up on my house. Â Quite a lull in the precip right now, just misting at the moment. Just took the dog for a nice walk actually. Kinda fun to walk around the neighborhood on a night like this. Probably won't sleep tonight...too stressful...so I'm just planning to get lots of homework done for school, and hoping my classes are cancelled tomorrow. Â Stay safe everyone. Quote
... Posted October 30, 2012 Author Report Posted October 30, 2012 Just got home from karate...everyone okay? Quote
Eleven Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 Just got home from karate...everyone okay? Â More importantly, are you? Quote
SwampD Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 Just got home from karate...everyone okay? If by okay you mean seven beers and a couple of pours deep, then yes. Quote
MattPie Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 If by okay you mean seven beers and a couple of pours deep, then yes. Â You're more than OK then. :) Â Everything is cool here, storm passed to the south of me for the most part. Hopefully wjag is good, he was in the path earlier. Quote
Ghost of Dwight Drane Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 If by okay you mean seven beers and a couple of pours deep, then yes. Â Save the bass! Â Why pick on him during his doomsday moment? Let him enjoy it. Â Thank you....for the 30% of seriousness involved in that statement. You do have a heart...... Quote
darksabre Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 Power has been out for me for about an hour now. Sump hole probably has an hour before it brims. I'm going to bed. ###### it. Quote
ubkev Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 Right on the edge of the wind and rain right now in the Scranton area...not so bad yet, 30 mph winds are about as bad as its been. I guess Wilkes Barre lost power, and with how things get done here in the good old commonwealth, it will probably be out until someone re-invents electricity. I hope to god we don't lose power. I cant live without lights, and i have a walking, talking fire hazard (8 year old) living with me, so that automatically rules out candles. Â Good luck to everyone whose in worse shape. Hope all is well. Quote
ROC Sabres Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 So far not too bad here. Wind starting to pick up a bit and the lights are dimming every now and then but still have power. Pretty much just worried about the tree in front of my house since one of the three main limbs hangs over my house (and all the leaves fell off last week :worthy: ). Never had a chance to clean the gutters before the bad weather started so I've got buckets coming out every time there is a good gust leaving a nice pool of standing water in front of my house. Luckily the house is on a bit of a hill and the standing water is right near the drain for where the sump pump is. Kind of expecting the power to go out sometime in the middle of the night since I've heard a bunch of people around Rochester are already powerless. Quote
wjag Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 (edited) Waiting for daylight to see what happened. We got an incredible amount of rain and wind yesterday. Still raining here until mid day. Winds still blowing in the 20s. We now have high tide and south winds pushing water up the bay. Â First reaction seems to be that MD came through this pretty well. 200,000 out of power mostly in my county. Â We of course also have to survive all the water coming down the Susquehanna River. Flooding is everywhere, but that as expected. Â Daylight will tell a lot. We're still under a state of emergency until 12 today. Â Chance of snow too.... Edited October 30, 2012 by wjag Quote
darksabre Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 (edited) 8 hours without power here in Rochester. Fortunately the water hasn't made it over the sump rim. No idea if I have work today but I'll know when I get there. Just thankful I'm not bailing out my basement right now. Edited October 30, 2012 by d4rksabre Quote
wjag Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 Christie looks awful on the Today show this morning. His Jersey shore, a national treasure, was just smashed. Â Good luck to everyone in NJ Quote
Weave Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 We came out of it fine. Sump pump is sounding off every few minutes. Sometime overnight the power went out but I don't know for how long. One block over the street is closed, there is a powerline down across the road. Work is open so I'm there. It was dark driving in so I can't say how much mess there was. There wasn't much very much at all that was obvious in my headlights. Â I bought a generator in March. It's nice knowing that even if there was alot of destruction we were still going to be comfortable. I fired it up last night after work just to make sure it was operating OK, but it looks like the maiden voyage will have to wait a bit longer. Quote
SwampD Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 Sipping coffee to the soothing sounds of generators running all throughout the neighborhood. Â Here's a picture of some of the damage from last night. Quote
LabattBlue Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 (edited) There was one weather channel idiot(he may have been from a network affiliate) who was right on the waters edge last night trying to broadcast with waves crashing over his head. I was hoping the dumba$$ would get swept out to sea. :rolleyes: Â At least the always enjoyable Jim Cantore has the sense to say, "listen folks, if this water gets any higher, we may have to head out"(he was at battery park). Â On a related weather channel note, does Stephanie Abrams have a brain? Edited October 30, 2012 by LabattBlue Quote
Weave Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 There was one weather channel idiot(he may have been from a network affiliate) who was right on the waters edge last night trying to broadcast with waves crashing over his head. I was hoping the dumba$$ would get swept out to sea. :rolleyes: Â At least the always enjoyable Jim Cantore has the sense to say, "listen folks, if this water gets any higher, we may have to head out"(he was at battery park). Â On a related weather channel note, does Stephanie Abrams have a brain? Â I dunno. I never move my gaze up high enough to see her brain. Quote
Sabre Dance Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 From what I've seen so far this morning, my part of WNY has dodged a really big bullet. The winds were lower than expected and the rain wasn't too bad (except for a heavy downpour about 7:10 this AM). Right now, I'm actually seeing some sunshine in downtown Buffalo. Power outages were minimal in the area and aside from a ton of leaves and twigs (and the occasional smallish tree branch) lying around, we've made out pretty well. We've had much scarier windstorms many times in the past. Thanks to the big guy upstairs for watching out for us on this one. However, the reports from NYC, Jersey and Maryland aren't so good. Thoughts and prayers go out to everyone down that way. Quote
Taro T Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 Out near Fairport, we seem to have weathered the 1st pass of the storm well as well. No wind AT ALL at 8AM. It doesn't look like anybody lost power near where I'm at and the only damage I've seen is a neighbor's old willow tree lost a large branch. (Which in and of itself isn't indicative of any severe weather.) Â Good luck to all. Hopefully those of you that haven't been knocked out by the storm maintain that status; and for those that have been knocked out, hopefully the recovery crews are quick. Quote
LastPommerFan Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 Out near Fairport, we seem to have weathered the 1st pass of the storm well as well. No wind AT ALL at 8AM. It doesn't look like anybody lost power near where I'm at and the only damage I've seen is a neighbor's old willow tree lost a large branch. (Which in and of itself isn't indicative of any severe weather.) Â Good luck to all. Hopefully those of you that haven't been knocked out by the storm maintain that status; and for those that have been knocked out, hopefully the recovery crews are quick. Â My parents lost a big pine tree last night, took out their service line from the poll in the back around 10pm. Good old Fairport Electric (SOCIALISM!) had the line reconnected in an hour, during the storm! Practically free electricity and great service? I'm jealous. Quote
Stoner Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 The devastation in northern PA is remarkable. The region is in shambles -- almost looks like the 1800s here, and there's some serious social de-evolution taking place. Wait... it always looks like this. Quote
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