WEBlue

Don't tell me. Your Yodel supply ran out already?

Nutek

It's true.. Our supply of emergency rations were sadly inadequate.

Nutek

LOL

Roads are re-opened, so i am heading into work to bring stuff back online. I shall conduct an in depth survey of DD on my way in.

robin1234

Here it's a beautiful sunny day, 65 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. No rain overnight to speak of. We were lucky.. the wind moderated after midnight and we didn't lose power. Daughter in Cape Cod got her electricity back some time overnight.

mandpete

Apart from some water damage to front room we came out of it ok. Thoughts are with those who weren't so lucky. Old kindle 3G is my only connection to outside world and its pretty rubbish.

Bob

Seems the power went out some time between 12:30 and 4:30 this morning and was back on some time before 7:50am...I think it was only out for a couple of hours.

Have some friends who are still without power.

Taking the missus to work, there were a few trees down and a few branches scattered about, but nothing to bad.

Plenty of huge rainbows though.

Cuthbert Rizla

Just looking at all the coverage during Sandy I can't help feeling that there's been a massive amount of hype and over-dramatisation about this storm.

Although it was big in size it was barely a Cat 1 hurricane when it hit land and apart from the Jersey shoreline being flooded ( it's a shoreline,what do you expect ? ) and parts of lower Manhattan being affected ( ancient subway system barely upgraded since it was built ) most places got off pretty lightly.

Three times as many people died in the Caribbean during Sandy but this barely registered in the US media and historically Sandy really is just a storm in a teacup.

In 1938 a real "superstorm" that hit the eastern seaboard called the Yankee Clipper or the Long Island Express, it was a category 3 hurricane that left 600 people dead in New England, and 60 people in New York City alone.

In a bid to outdo each other some of the US media experts I've been watched have been laughably over-the-top.

"When I was a young boy growing up in the Northeast (New Jersey) and obsessed with the weather, I used to wonder what it’d be like when the big one comes. Well, we’re about to find out." – Stu Ostro, senior director of weather communications for The Weather Channel
"If anything, Sandy is exceeding the forecast expectations, and the forecast was for a storm of epic proportions and effects." – Bryan Norcross, hurricane specialist for The Weather Channel

"It looks like it's going to be worse than the storm of '62, which was monumental." – Willie Glass, Atlantic City's public safety director

"With this storm, it could be unprecedented. We might see more flood damage than we've seen in a long time." - Paul Walsh, Vice President of Weather Analytics for The Weather Channel

"If this all happens as forecasted, and you and your family are stuck in the cold and dark without food and light and communications because you didn't run to the store and get ready, excuses are going to be spectacularly hard to come by." – Bryan Norcross, hurricane specialist for The Weather Channel

I think they forgot it's real-life and not Hollywood.

robin1234

I think it is inevitable, isn't it, given the accurate forecasts these days with a lead time of several days. The authorities have to err on the side of covering all their bases.. look at the situation in Italy when the scientists were sent to prison for not forecasting an earthquake. Then, you have wall-to-wall news updating via TV and internet. My sister in England has emailed me a dozen times.. do we still have a roof? Should she send food parcels? She hears it's going to snow? Well.. I pigged out at the Chinese Buffet yesterday, we didn't have a power outrage, and it is exceptionally warm and sunny today. So, we're OK so far..

Having said that, it was a disaster over a wide area and many people are in a desperate situation, so while not the worst ever it was very bad.

Interesting, though, to imagine what it was like in 1938 or earlier. They had newspapers and radio. Forecasting was nothing like today.. most people probably had no idea until the storm actually hit.

Nutek

Dunkin Donuts is in good shape, though some of the donuts had holes in them.

Driving around, it looks as though we dodged a lot of it here... Few broken trees... Stuff blown around, but not bad.

paddingtongreen

We lost power at 1:00 and it came back at about 10:0. We have a care facility on campus so we get a fairly high priority. I haven't been out but it doesn't look like a lot of damage out there although the center of the storm passed very close by.

Sally Redux

Glad you brave souls are doing OK this morning!

sime303

Hope everyone in the worst hit areas that post here (and those that don't) are all ok.

willmore

Ditto from me. Check in when and if you can to let us kow how you are....

robin1234

I just read the Daily Mail coverage of the event and now realise the gravity of the situation. Sorry for being a bit blasé in some of my previous posts..

Maddyjvn

Evening all - glad to see / hear you're mostly ok!! Wish I had shares in candle factories right now...think I may have made a killing. Anyway, seriously, glad you state sider folks are ok!