is this worse than irene?
are you guys just staying in your house or did you evacuate

somewhere in southern nj...

Building collapse in the West Village

http://www.businessinsider.com/major-building-collapse-in-manhattan-at-8th-and-14th-street-2012-10

We are so lucky when it comes to weather. We are done with the rain only 2.6 inches compared with the 4 to 8 inches they predicted. Now all we have to do is get by the wind

So far so good here. Rain ended hours ago, but still quite windy. Power's still on on my block, tho the rest of the neighborhood has been out since mid-afternoon. (That's happened before because I'm apparently on a different grid or something)

My part of NJ looks pretty clear of rain on the maps right now, but the rain is expected back late tonight, throughout the night, into tomorrow. But the winds should be dying down later tonight. We'll see...

As for my house down in margate well that's another story! They say the eye is going right over margate!!!

Yea up here its just wind and rain, i guess the power went out for a little bit when i was asleep both it came right back on so who knows. Its no different here than it was when irene hit so hopefully it stays that way.

we had a couple of huge trees snap on our property, they were around a foot thick. back in the woods there were some massive trees that snapped, really loud. we have some siding that has blown off, and the same for the gutters. pretty minor when you consider what some other people are going through. we really haven't had that much rain though, which is good because flooding was my main concern.

Most of my family back in the Crabby State have lost power and cell signals, but have been able to send me sporadic updates whenever their signals popped back up. I know Ocean City, MD is a disaster zone right now. The worst my family has suffered so far is a huge branch falling down in the back yard, taking down most of their fence. Hopefully that is the worst of it.

You guys (and gals) hang in there! This is one particular instance where I am NOT homesick!

Hey guys im getting bad reports out of New York Tell me were ok??

heard the subway is flooded

Anderson Cooper just said on Twitter that the NYU Medical Center power went out and the backup generator failed.

That's awful.

I hope everyone is safe and sound on the East Coast..

New Orleans hurricane advice for NYC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rjhWPSnc_2c

I found this interesting.

http://theweek.com/article/index/235574/apocalypse-now

"As much as we like to make fun of disaster preparedness, with its acronyms and power points, we also have to acknowledge something profound, which is that these big institutions can actually learn from their mistakes and can make decisions that save millions of lives. If climate change is functionally changing the globe's weather, then experts in this area have to evolve themselves to catch up. Since Katrina, FEMA has become an incredibly agile and forward-leaning agency and it never gets credit for it.

So far, at least as I type this, everything is working as it should. Warnings are dire, but people are heeding them. The devastation is potentially crippling, but folks are acting proactively. The person at ConEd who made the call to pre-emptively shut off power to lower Manhattan so that, when the flood waters recede, it can be restarted much more quickly, deserves a prize of some sort. Yes! Do more of that! Be accountable for your decision, but, yes, be smart about stuff. We can cheer for that. The federal government is working well with its state and local partners, as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will attest. Utilities pre-mobilized thousands of workers. The stock exchange wisely decided that Howard Roark didn't have the power to stop storm surges, and that even the economy can take a break to ride out the storm. Will people lose money? Sure. The right call? Totally."

I'm A-OK here. Only lost power for about 30 minutes last night, tho it was going on/off many times before that for a minute at a time. The ol' Oak is still standing, my biggest concern. Some downed branches, a piece of siding got lose, but that's about it. I was very lucky!

Friend of mine had a tree fall onto her roof and has some major damage. Another is suspected to be flooded. DMC up north is without power, and could be for many days. Lots of power outages across the region. I hope to hear from Don Cardi -- lots of flooding in his area. I imagine SC is out, too. I just hope everyone in the region is okay and we hear from them soon!

CNN mistakenly reported last night that the NYSE flooded. Yeah thanks guys.

I hope everyone is safe and fine, there's so many rumors and false news spreading around

I know that SB and SC both lost power last night. It was very very windy SB said but they are ok (thankfully) I'm sure they will give us more details when they can return to the board.

Stay safe my friends!!



TIS

Thanks for the update JG. Please keep us posted.

I lost power very briefly (few seconds) last night after midnight while watching an HBO movie on Ronald Reagan. But have emerged unscathed from the storm. I have a number of friends who were evacuated/lost power in Zone A/Manhattan, and some family in Red Hook (Brooklyn) who lost power and had their SUV burned (flooded then fire) and their other car completely submerged in water. Everybody is safe, which is the most important part.

I went to my parents house to help them out and stayed their over night. We lost power around 830- 9 PM EST and it didn't come back on till around 10 this morning. Thankfully my neighbor had a generator that we shared and I hooked up to the sub pump so our basement didn't flood.

Our area's a mess. We lost a magnificent white birch from the front of our house, which thankfully missed the house and the cars parked in the driveway. Two of our neighbors' trees fell on our fence, one badly damaging it. Thankfully that's been the extent of our damage. We were without power from about 8 last night until 1:30 this afternoon. Not bad at all.

My oldest daughter's college is closed for the week, and my younger daughter's school hasn't posted yet when it plans to open. Their website is down and so is email, so we can only call the hotline. However, it's located in Chelsea, which is supposed to be pretty bad, so I'm guessing it might be closed. How we would get her back is a mystery because the trains are shut down and so are parts of the highway.

To me, the most frightening was this fire in Queens. Estimates now are that at least 80 homes were destroyed.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/massive-fire-blazing-breezy-point-queens-article-1.1194958

I really hope Don Cardi is okay... Stuck Staten Island residents ask local leaders for rescue

I sent him a text on Sunday night, but never got a response.

Glad to see you back SB!

Thanks, Afs! Considering that this was a windstorm vs. rain did it.

Oh no! I hope he's ok. Let us know if you hear anything.
Btw, those pictures of that fire are amazing. How scary.



TIS

39 people have died so far... Very sad..