daryl1968


22,000 people without power in my area - we were one of the lucky ones - the lights flickered a few times and we had a shutter blow off but that was it.

Tell everyone what happened when you went outside to take care of the shutter.

bapu

daryl1968


22,000 people without power in my area - we were one of the lucky ones - the lights flickered a few times and we had a shutter blow off but that was it.

Tell everyone what happened when you went outside to take care of the shutter.

yeah - bloody wind blew my hair out of place. You people in Cali have it easy

I am one of the lucky ones... both house and boat are fine.. was without power for 4hrs yesterday but despite hearing transsformers pop all evening I am in good shape..
With gusts to 95mph (reported at weather station 2 miles away) the damage is as expected with some seriously large trees down and the surge had all of downtown mystic flooded from 9pm last night... quite the sight..
phew

daryl1968

bapu

daryl1968


22,000 people without power in my area - we were one of the lucky ones - the lights flickered a few times and we had a shutter blow off but that was it.

Tell everyone what happened when you went outside to take care of the shutter.

yeah - bloody wind blew my hair out of place. You people in Cali have it easy

You should have been wearing your Banana Man outfit. 

Anyone hear from the outpost in Danzi Land? It sounds like they were in for it.

7 million without power is what I heard this morning. May be awhile before hearing from anyone on the East Coast then.

i've been thru a few big hurricanes. (6, actually)

the worst was Hugo, in 1989


i was without water for 2 weeks...


and without power for 6 weeks.


all i can say is, it can happen, so be prepared.

I have 2 nieces living in NJ, in the southern part of the state....one lives in Egg Harbor which is only a few miles from Atlantic City. She is pretty much right where it came in. 

Fortunately, if one can say that, it was only a Cat 1 storm. I shutter to think of the damage we would be looking at this morning if it had been any stronger. 

(one hour of elapsed time making calls) 

I was able to contact one of my nieces and she said everything was fine.... They had minimal damage, no flooding and power was on. She is the one who lives near Egg Harbor.... 

Here's hoping that all our regulars are safe and well if having to endure damage, flooding and power loss.
 
Condolences to the families in the US and elsewhere that have lost loved ones to this horrific storm.

We got off very lucky here.  The hurricane hit with pounding rain and wind gusts approaching 80 mph, but our power stayed on, although it's still out three miles from here.
 
At around 3:30 am I saw the freakiest thing.  Green lightning flashes lit up the entire sky like night vision.  I know it wasn't transformers arcing because the entire sky was flashing green above the cloud cover.  Weird stuff, hope everyone else is safe and hanging in there!

Bob