Official Frankenstorm Panic Thread
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Not a-feared of wind damage, I guess, eh?
I’m re-thinking my usual parking arrangement (under a dozens of feet tall maple) for the time being. That, and bringing in the decorative flag are about as prepared as we’re going to get… for now.
I’m sure the road down by the Rappahannock is flooded by now which means no traffic down our road (it floods when it so much as sneezes rain). Starting to get intermittent gusts up to 30 mph. I can’t believe how early they shut down the Metro in DC. Was talking with my lawyer friend yesterday who works there as he was down to help on the new house and he was saying his worst fear about the storm was going to work tomorrow and then not being able to get home because they closed the Metro. At least he had that problem fixed for him.
We had a little wind & rain. Never lost power as of 9pm. From what I hear the immediate coastline got the crap kicked out of it by the massive storm surge. I stayed indoors all day.
Everyone here freaked out, schools are all closed tomorrow. Governments closed tomorrow. Coastlines are getting hammered but inland it’s been okay. Less than 8000 in Virginia have lost power and crews are out restoring it already. As of 11 pm we have power still. Rappahannock is supposed to crest tomorrow at 19 feet (vs. its normal 2 ft) and hearing the Potomac may crest in excess of 35 feet. Apparently the eye went about DC and NYC is getting the worst of everything. Temperature is dropping, saying we may get light snow.
They closed schools all over the place tomorrow.
News says millions without power, and plenty around here, but for the moment, we seem to be OK. We had a power “hiccup” earlier, which reset a bunch of our clocks and made the TiVo we were using at the time restart, and the winds are still quite high and ugly, so things could go south in a hurry, but as of 11:37 (just after the Monday Night game) we’re OK.
My wife may still need to go to work in the morning, but I’ve got a day to chill and shoot some macro shots of Halloween candy for Thursday.
Governments closed tomorrow.
Every cloud has a silver lining. 😆
’twas sad to read about the Bounty, though; I haven’t heard an update but I’m guessing the Captain is lost to the seas; one other crew member was pulled from the water already dead.
I swear I’m going to bitchslap the stupid out of the next relative who forwards me a Photoshopped image of a shark on the street or in a yard in New Jersey and insists that it’s real.
I swear I’m going to bitchslap the stupid out of the next relative who forwards me a Photoshopped image of a shark on the street or in a yard in New Jersey and insists that it’s real.
This one?
This is about the worst of the damage up here in West Harlem, downtown is a real mess but we are living the life up here. The Dominican folks in the neighborhood are walking around shrugging their shoulders and talking about the little breeze.
I’m in central Indiana, it’s just a litte windy here.
It took about 4-5 minutes to pick up the branches and twigs that fell off the tree in the front yard, and the power blinkered off/on about 4 times last night (according to wife, I was out like a lamp). Otherwise we’re OK. Neighbor down the street had a rather large limb come down, but didn’t hit anything. About 20 minutes of chainsaw action and he’s back to mostly normal as well.
We were lucky. Other sections of town have power down and out for extended time, and I’m sure if I bothered to turn on local news, there’d be shots of people with branches on cars and in living rooms. There are a couple of places in town susceptible to flooding, so they may be toast… but I repeat… we got lucky. (Although I didn’t get lucky… gonna try to get some wine in the wife this afternoon for that…)
I’m pleased to hear that our group seems to have weathered the storm without major problems. 🙂
I think QueenBee is probably the most affected other than ennuipoet. On FB she was the first to report power loss and hers isn’t back on yet but I didn’t see her say anything else dramatically terrible had happened.
It’s damn cold now though. I want my 80 degree October back!
I think QueenBee is probably the most affected other than ennuipoet. On FB she was the first to report power loss and hers isn’t back on yet but I didn’t see her say anything else dramatically terrible had happened.
It’s damn cold now though. I want my 80 degree October back!
Other than the lack of Mass Transit I am completely unphased by the storm. It’s surreal my neighborhood is back to normal, five miles away in Downtown Manhattan they are in the dark ages.
My wife called me in the middle of my work day in a panic… the power had gone out. She was informed that it would be out until tomorrow. She texted me less than 3 hours later to let me know it was back on!
So… the day AFTER the big storm, and the day BEFORE the eye is going to reach us in its significantly reduced form we suffer the most we’re going to suffer… interesting.
(We STILL know we got lucky.)
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