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Re: How hard our we gona get hit by Sandy
[Re: SC]
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10/27/12 01:01 PM
10/27/12 01:01 PM
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The storm will start dumping on us Sunday night and the worst of it will be Monday. We'll still feel effects on Tuesday.
It's forecasted to come ashore in southern Jersey. That is the worst case scenario for NYC (the effects are always worst in the right quadrant of the storm). This may be the worst storm to hit the City in its history. Lower Manhattan MAY end up underwater!!
I'm expecting to be without electrical power for at least a few days. (I bought a propane camp stove and some propane this morning, so I'll be able to cook, at least).
The thing that worries me most is the potential for wind damage (70 mph gusts are predicted). I have a big old tree right next to the house... I pray that if it comes down, it falls AWAY from the house. I'll move my car across the street where there are no trees.
Got lots of canned food and the car is gassed up; all portable electronics are being charged now. I am really NOT looking forward to this. Being without electricity for a week last year (Tropical Storm Irene) was enough to last me a lifetime. Wow...I don't know what I'm going to do I might use some frequent flyer miles and go down to SOBE for a week
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Re: How hard our we gona get hit by Sandy
[Re: DickNose_Moltasanti]
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10/27/12 01:03 PM
10/27/12 01:03 PM
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Wow...I don't know what I'm going to do I might use some frequent flyer miles and go down to SOBE for a week Where are you now?
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Re: How hard our we gona get hit by Sandy
[Re: southphilly old head]
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10/27/12 01:14 PM
10/27/12 01:14 PM
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i'm more worried about rain then the wind where we are. our property backs up to a river, and last year with irene we got about 8 1/2 inches of rain and the water got close enough start getting me a little worried. we live on a 500 year flood plain, which means historically, on average there we be one flood big enough to reach our house every 500 years. hear we are with two major storms in 2 years. i have some friends in the mountains of eastern west virginia, and they may get up to 2 feet of snow, not really dangerous but up there power outages are a definate and the roads get so blocked with snow, ice, and fallen debris that you are literally trapped. these are my preparations:  one of these, and i have already started making insane amounts of ice so that i don't have to suffer through the horror of warm beer, and a bottle of this to "steralize" any injuries a might sustain   i also have a bunch of candles, a few good books/magazines, a little portable dvd player that runs on batteries and plenty of easy to prepare food.
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Re: How hard our we gona get hit by Sandy
[Re: Dapper_Don]
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10/27/12 01:46 PM
10/27/12 01:46 PM
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Im worried about the subway if it gets shut down.... I'd be surprised if Bloomberg keeps it open. I think lower Manhattan is gonna flood.
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Re: How hard our we gona get hit by Sandy
[Re: SC]
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10/27/12 01:51 PM
10/27/12 01:51 PM
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Im worried about the subway if it gets shut down.... I'd be surprised if Bloomberg keeps it open. I think lower Manhattan is gonna flood. Thats what I am thinking as well, guess I will "work" from home
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Re: How hard our we gona get hit by Sandy
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10/27/12 03:29 PM
10/27/12 03:29 PM
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Im worried about the subway if it gets shut down.... I'd be surprised if Bloomberg keeps it open. I think lower Manhattan is gonna flood. From what I've heard, Bloomberg will make the decision about the subways on Sunday night. And, as far as the subway system goes, Brooklyn would certainly have more than its share of problems from all the rain: Lots of subway lines in my borough are at least partially underground for certain stretches, and pretty much all of them are below ground level as they get closer to Manhattan. Other boroughs have similar situations to contend with. The water's got to go somewhere, right? So, for now we keep glued to our TV's and radios, etc., and we wait...  Signor V.
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Re: How hard our we gona get hit by Sandy
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10/27/12 04:02 PM
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Old ladies were fighting over quarts of milk  . You should have seen me this morning. I think you would have laughed. I wanted a Coleman propane stove and Target was selling them. I looked online and my local Target store had "limited quantities" of them with propane. I was at the front door of the store at 8:00 a.m. (their opening time) along with about a dozen other people. As soon as the doors opened a few went running towards the Sporting Goods/Outdoors section. I eyed an old lady and she eyed me as we both saw the only two remaining cans of propane. She got them.  It wasn't fair to me, though.... she was about 8 months pregnant, so it was like two against one. To make it even worse, her seeing eye dog tried to bite me. Old bitch! (Seriously, though), one woman beat me to the last two cans of propane. I was lucky to find a supply at Home Depot, about two miles away. The mentality of us buying stuff for a storm amazes me ... milk, bread and eggs are the first things that everyone buys. What is our fascination with French toast?
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Re: How hard our we gona get hit by Sandy
[Re: southphilly old head]
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10/27/12 04:38 PM
10/27/12 04:38 PM
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Yeah, we're directly on the water in Throggs Neck (Eastchester Bay). It doesn't flood as often as you might think, but when it does, oh boy. To lose power on top of that is a nightmare. Funny thing is, during Irene we kept our power and only flooded a bit in the garage.
Conversely, my brother lives way up in Northern Westchester, allegedly way above sea level, and he really got hammered by Irene. That slut.
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Re: How hard our we gona get hit by Sandy
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10/27/12 08:04 PM
10/27/12 08:04 PM
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The thing that worries me most is the potential for wind damage (70 mph gusts are predicted). I have a big old tree right next to the house... I pray that if it comes down, it falls AWAY from the house. Same here. There's a big old Oak tree right next to the house that recently died. It'd either fall on my roof, the neighbor's roof, on my car, on the neighbor's car, or, onto the power lines. Those are the only options.  I wish I had the $ to have it taken down this Summer, because if not a hurricane, a blizzard could bring it down as well. 
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Re: How hard our we gona get hit by Sandy
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10/27/12 08:09 PM
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There's a big old Oak tree right next to the house that recently died. It'd either fall on my roof, the neighbor's roof, on my car, on the neighbor's car, or, onto the power lines. Those are the only options. Move your car. D'uh!!
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Re: How hard our we gona get hit by Sandy
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10/27/12 08:38 PM
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I suppose I could park it on the side of the house, but with my luck, my neighbor's tree would fall on it!  I'd rather not park in the street during something like this. Some wackadoos will drive no matter what it's like out!
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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