p.3 #1 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
Just got power restored! Thanks everyone for support and good words! Still no gas around Central Jersey, huge lines for 5-8 blocks around one with gas. But I am fine for another week on this!
p.3 #2 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
That's encouraging, Leonid......because by now your wife must have gotten really tired of you strumming your balalaika and singing "Podmoskovske veceri" as the only entertainment.
p.3 #3 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
PetKal wrote:
That's encouraging, Leonid......because by now your wife must have gotten really tired of you strumming your balalaika and singing "Podmoskovske veceri" as the only entertainment.
You are right it is worse and most depressing days of my 20 years of life in US.
No vodka left, scotch for one night only, cold outside, no internet, but it is over!
Gasoline is min issue at this moment, next week it will be lot of it ... for Obama election
p.3 #4 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
Breitling65 wrote:
You are right it is worse and most depressing days of my 20 years of life in US.
No vodka left, scotch for one night only, cold outside, no internet, but it is over!
Gasoline is min issue at this moment, next week it will be lot of it ... for Obama election
p.3 #5 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
I'm still watching / listening to the CNN coverage and it's a very big mess. It's both interesting & scary learning what all of you will be going through over the winter months. I saw the update from the governor about how many far away states volunteered to send power workers & that Obama is going to fly them & their equipment in using C 130's to speed things up. A very wise use of military planes I think he's got his priorities straight & is cutting straight to the chase so to speak.
p.3 #6 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
Cicopo wrote:
I'm still watching / listening to the CNN coverage and it's a very big mess. It's both interesting & scary learning what all of you will be going through over the winter months. I saw the update from the governor about how many far away states volunteered to send power workers & that Obama is going to fly them & their equipment in using C 130's to speed things up. A very wise use of military planes I think he's got his priorities straight & is cutting straight to the chase so to speak.
I think any president will do it, nothing extraordinary was done yet. He is in power and that is his job to help US people, especially days before elections that will look good for him.
p.3 #7 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
The piers in Asbury Park and Ocean Grove which I photographed this summer are all gone and destroyed. I am okay, nothing of my property was destroyed fortunately, but I am still without power in NJ. Currently staying with friends in PA.
p.3 #8 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
I have been watching this on the BBC....I will be looking to send a donation tomorrow morning...absolutely terrible suffering..this just shows that at the end of the day the most powerful nations are as vulnerable as the poorest in the face of nature.
There should be a lesson there as well.....where ever we live...we all live on planet Earth.
p.3 #9 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
anthonygh wrote:
I have been watching this on the BBC....I will be looking to send a donation tomorrow morning...absolutely terrible suffering..this just shows that at the end of the day the most powerful nations are as vulnerable as the poorest in the face of nature.
There should be a lesson there as well.....where ever we live...we all live on planet Earth.
p.3 #10 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
Breitling65 wrote:
Great spirit!
Thanks....lots of us here feel exactly the same and are looking to help out somehow.......this has really brought home to people here how fragile our relationship to nature is.....
p.3 #12 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
I live in South Florida and Sandy was 350 miles off our coast and we experienced lots of rain and high gusts of winds. It did quite a bit of damage to the shoreline, seen on news this evening, a pier will be finshed being repaired tomorrow. I imagine it did that to pretty much all of the east coast as it traveled north. We were still getting high gusting winds days after it passed us.
I ve been through two hurricanes back to back within a week of each other, we lost everything. I know the inital shock of the devistation it caused and the rebuilding process. All those affected folks will not get there life back for a couple years till everything is rebuilt.. and then some normalcy will come.
Its unfortunate the media just reports on the initial storm and its devistation, and in a couple weeks it wont be news. Then for the next couple years the folks affected are stuck trying to rebuild and get there life back together....They have a LONG road ahead.
p.3 #13 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
IndyFab wrote:
I live in South Florida and Sandy was 350 miles off our coast and we experienced lots of rain and high gusts of winds. It did quite a bit of damage to the shoreline, seen on news this evening, a pier will be finshed being repaired tomorrow. I imagine it did that to pretty much all of the east coast as it traveled north. We were still getting high gusting winds days after it passed us.
I ve been through two hurricanes back to back within a week of each other, we lost everything. I know the inital shock of the devistation it caused and the rebuilding process. All those affected folks will not get there life back for a couple years till everything is rebuilt.. and then some normalcy will come.
Its unfortunate the media just reports on the initial storm and its devistation, and in a couple weeks it wont be news. Then for the next couple years the folks affected are stuck trying to rebuild and get there life back together....They have a LONG road ahead.
Please remember that most people in NJ never saw this disaster in their life's, houses are not build as in Florida with flat roofs and no bacements. Lot of houses here in flood zone and not can't probably protect from heavy rains and not from power we saw. I know difference, my father is in Florida and I am traveling there lot.
I will personally look for next house without bacement and will spend some money on good generator. Set of ice bags in fridge and water bottles should be always in house. Couple of empty gas canisters, propane tanks, etc
p.3 #14 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
Breitling65 wrote:
Please remember that most people in NJ never saw this disaster in their life's, houses are not build as in Florida with flat roofs and no bacements. Lot of houses here in flood zone and not can't probably protect from heavy rains and not from power we saw. I know difference, my father is in Florida and I am traveling there lot.
I will personally look for next house without bacement and will spend some money on good generator. Set of ice bags in fridge and water bottles should be always in house. Couple of empty gas canisters, propane tanks, etc
Good to be prepared and I hope you never have to go through something like this again just happy your safe
p.3 #15 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
Breitling65 wrote:
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Please remember that most people in NJ never saw this disaster in their life's, houses are not build as in Florida with flat roofs and no bacements. Lot of houses here in flood zone and not can't probably protect from heavy rains and not from power we saw. I know difference, my father is in Florida and I am traveling there lot.
I will personally look for next house without bacement and will spend some money on good generator. Set of ice bags in fridge and water bottles should be always in house. Couple of empty gas canisters, propane tanks, etc
I'm with you Breitling, as I too, am from northern bergen county.. No one in the north builds for hurricanes, as most homes have gable roofs. However, as meterologists have been reporting, this is the new norm with what they beleive is a effect of global warming. So perhaps new guidelines will be mandated to build all new dwellings with strickter codes, as they are now required here in Fl. My wife is from the Caribbean, and I always here her saying, that we should be required to build homes with concrete roofs, as they do in the Carribean.. that would drive up the cost of housing..
Already heard that insurance companies will be increasing there prices to all in the US, because of these historical storms in recent times. You should know there is not one major carrier that sells insurance in Fl. Most are in a large pool with Citizens.
Back on point with the thread, many heart renching stories being televised, of many from all the area's that were affected from this storm..
p.3 #16 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
Despite all our technology progress, forces of nature are still deadly.
Let us just remind ourselves what happened in Japan in March 2011 when the tsunami struck:
p.3 #17 · To all ther people on the east coast you have my best
PetKal wrote:
Despite all our technology progress, forces of nature are still deadly.
Let us just remind ourselves what happened in Japan in March 2011 when the tsunami struck:
15,870 people dead
6,114 injured
2,814 missing
Which in turn pales in comparison to the Sumatra quake and tsunami devastation.
Mother Nature could flick us off the planet like a bug on a shoulder should she choose too, and in just a blink of a geological eye, the planet would be covered in life again, paying us no mind and shedding no tears for us. She probably even doesn't care if the 7D is noisy or not.
