robin1234

Yeah I had no idea it hit Yonkers and the Bronx so bad, until I saw a picture on the front page of the New York Times, a place in the Bronx about five blocks from where my wife grew up.

retzie

We got stuck in Manhattan when the subway shutdown; ended up walking ourselves back to Queens. Luckily, we didn't encounter anything like the torrents of water all over the news. It was just a looong, sodden walk.

Feeling very lucky right about now

postbox134

Jersey City was very wet on Wednesday night - crazy rain. Hoboken always floods but this time was practically totally underwater. Lots of cars destroyed by the rain.

NJ also had another very unusual tornado further South which was crazy. And two houses exploded from gas leaks.

Rete

This is the New York Thruway at the Yonkers/Bronx Exit.

https://scontent.fmem1-2.fna.fbcdn.n...1f&oe=61381338

scrubbedexpat097

Wow! That wasn't expected to be so bad.
Flooding can be so quick and so devastating . Hope all you guys are ok that were in the path of this deluge

robin1234

Yup that’s the picture my wife looked at and said, that’s the Deegan near Stella D’Oro’s. Actually I think Stella D’Oro’s is a few blocks north of there.

Rete

Yup .. Stella D'oro's bakery was located on West 237th Street

robin1234

Back in the 1970s, when we would drive from Boston to the Bronx to visit my MIL at the ancestral homestead, we knew we were nearly there when we could smell those cookies baking. Those days are long gone.

tht

I purposely brought a place outside the NYC hurricane flood evacuation zones, but it looks like the storm drains backed up and the ground floor common area of the building hit a couple of inches of surface water from the street.

Out in CT I followed my new rule of 100ft above current sea level for any purchase, but still got a couple of inches of water in the basement down in FFLD county due to high groundwater. Probably need to have a drain dug in the crawl space, the sump pump I have needs more water before it will activate.

Came up to checkout the lake house in Litchfield county. No basement here so no issues. The lake is however full to bursting…. No beach’s and the docks that are not floating are a couple of feet under water…

Rete

I can still remember that smell. There was a big ice skating rink close to the factory and the air was always filled with that heavenly smell.

Having been a New Yorker for 68 years, hurricanes were not something we feared in NYC or in the 'burbs. Did we have storms? Yes, of course. Nothing like we have today. The last big one that I remember from before the Sandy, et al, was Gloria. Connecticut isn't much better with the number of rivers and the LI Sound and inaccurate storm drains. My stepdaughter is in Middletown, CT and they lucked out with minimal flooding.

Watch out there's another one heading your way.

scrubbedexpat097

Our turn
Tropical Storm Nicholas turned into a Cat 1 hurricane tonight.
We have had heavy rain bands all day and now we have wild wind as well. Power is our and 1 and 1/2 trees down already.The City sewer system is backed up so no showers or flushing until they find someone to fix it when this is all over.
I was hoping it would be a quiet year for us

Just hope we don't flood

Rete

I was thinking of you all day yesterday. Guess my prayers were fully answered. I know you are prepared for Nicholas being who you are and your experience but still praying that the house remains untouched by flooding and that you are the other half stay safe and dry.

scrubbedexpat097

Thanks Rete

We survived without too much damage but this is getting too old! We don't want this anymore.
Decision time for sure.

Jerseygirl

Ditto. Hope Nicholas by-passes you SM. You have had your fair share of weather damage and it’s the last thing you need at the moment.