Anyone in Long Island still on line?

Gosh, what a nightmare. Hope they are all OK. Don

We live in Manorville and up till now all is well ! A few trees down on the road but we still have power. We are lucky !!!!!

Don, here on Staten Island it's really bad 200 feet behind my house there's a electrical transformer that blew up and wires are live all over the place. There's also a very big fire. wind gusts seem to be 75 to 80 on my guess right now. I have a lot of family in Long Island and they have no power and they said it's really bad there.

 

Alex

Alex....please take care buddy!!

 

That goes for the rest of you all that are in the storm's path....

 

Alan

Alex, all I can say is we are thinking the best for you guys. We have been watching all day. Stay safe. Do you have power or are you on generator? Don

Thanks Alan and Don,

 

I have a generator, the lights keep going off and on winds are getting worse

This is the worst storm I've ever been in 

 

Thanks, Alex

It's the worst storm anyone has been in. How is your house doing? Don

NWS updates for NYC area

 

http://forecast.weather.gov/sh...al+Weather+Statement

 

I just went outside to take a look at the house and everything is good so far,

but some trees are down and there's still a fire with live electrical wires 200ft behind my house. We called the police and fire  dept and told them, but there's so many electrcial fires here they said there trying to get to it.

 

Thanks, Alex

Alex, stay inside with your wife!!!! Do you have any animals? If so how they doing? 

Don

Alex

 

Stay safe, looks super bad.  My inlaws are from Central Jersey, and no it is not as bad as it is around you they are without power since mid afternoon.

Don,

 I'm not going out anymore that was crazy. I have two dogs and they are hiding under blankets. I tried to take a picture of the electrical fire behind my house but there's a lot of trees in the way. But here's the photo anyway.

 

Alex

Thanks Jim, I just found out friends of ours that live two towns over from us are totally flooded out. There cars are also destroyed. They are walking in 4 feet of water.

OMG it's so sad .

 

Alex

Stay inside and stay safe!  I can't imagine what it is like there.  We are getting 50 plus mile per hour winds here 20 miles SE of Cleveland with flickering lights.  The sump pump has been running pretty consistently and we are 600 miles away from Sandy.

Kevin

Hi Don, 

 

Lost power at 5pm, but I have the generator going. We are luckier than some of our neighbors. We're being told by LIPA (the local electric utility), that power won't be restored for 7 to 10 days. Hopefully, it will come back sooner. 

 

Andy

wow.....that is the reason I put in a whole house generator.  Hope people make out alright.  Winds here at the Southern tip of Lake Michigan are getting very high.  Waves on Lake Michigan predicted to be 30 plus feet.  Stay safe all of you on the East Coast.

 

 

 

From all of us in the midwest we hope you all are safe and we will be praying for all of you to be safe and have minimal damage. I cant even imagine what you all a going thru! The news on fox is so surreal. It break my heart to see all the devastation back there. May god be with you all!!

Alex & Andy...  Just hang in there and stay safe.  The winds are howling here in Michigan but we aren't getting nearly the storm you are.

I'm just glad to hear that you are all safe at the moment. My thoughts are with all who are affected by this storm.

Hi Guys,  Watchin the bad weather news here and the disaster hitting the eastern states, so sorry for the folks you know who have been so unfortunate.Hope you all stay safe,  all the best from Scotland.    DAVY

Hope you all up north make it through the storm without too much damage or loss of life!!

I live near hurricane alley here in south Florida, and we would been better prepared for hurricane Sandy to hit us down here and not be that affected. I have never heard of a cat. 1 hurricane going that far up the US coast-line and then hitting a state like New Jersey, total nightmere!

 

I have been through hurricane Andrew in Homestead FL, we lost electric for six and a half weeks! That was a cat 5 hurricane, something that I never want to see again! Very little water pressure, some people had no water. Looked like an atomic bomb had gone off, trees stripped of all leaves and no tree higher than ten feet as the hurricane snapped off the trees, also dead birds all over the nearby shopping center's parking lot. Concrete block house were destroyed, only one or two blocks left stacked up, cars thrown around like a kid who got mad with his matchbox cars. Mobile homes(trailers) with their roofs peeled back like a sardene can after being opened, a tree impaled one trailer like a toothpick through an olive in a martini.

After hurricane Andrew we cooked with rubbing alcohol inside a tuna fish can mounted on a bread board with three large nails. Had to have your food lined up so you could cook quickly because the alcohol only lasted about five minutes before needing a refill.

Maybe one hot meal a day from the local Red Cross, that was after two days because the roads needed to be cleared of trees that fell.

 

I can not imagine all the devistattion up north but it must be really bad as the weather reporters were calling this "Franken Storm" or "the perfect storm" down here in south Florida.

 

My parking lot was flooded recently by tropical storm Isaac, my car was flooded with three inches of water inside.

 

Lee F.

I have relatives near Reading PA, called my sister and she said it wasn't too bad in downtown Reading PA, some of the outskirts got hit with tree damage and power lines down, Mt. Penn got hit a little harder because it is elevated a bit. Her house did not flood because she lives in a decent area.

 

Lee F.

Hey Alex,  our thoughts and prayers are with you my friend!

Also to the rest of you guys up there...

Hi guys and gals,

 

 Where safe, no water in the house at all, but damage all over Staten Island. No power, trees are down everywhere, and it's a mess outside. Some people living a few towns away from us had very bad flooding and there homes and cars were destroyed.

I heard New Jersey shoreline is badly damaged and so is ours.

I THANK YOU ALL FOR CARING AND LETS SAY A PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST SO MUCH.

 

Thanks so much, Alex

 

Alex

 

I am glad you and your family made it through the night safe.  Hopefully the worse of the damage is done and they can restore power and water to you soon.  

 

From all the news reports this morning it looks like you were lucky.  I know my wife has some friends on Long Island and the Jersey shore she hasn't heard from yet.  

 

Our prayers are out too all of you.

 

Jim

So sorry for all of you dealing with this disaster.  My thoughts and prayers are with you.

We have no lights, but Alex is right; it could have been much worse for us. I feel lucky compared to some. I'll keep a good thought for all those who have to endure more than we do. 

 

Andy

I thank all of you guys for caring so much.

 

 

Thanks again, Alex

No water in the house, slight roof leak at previous repair.  No pwer, therefore no trains.

 

Joe

Is Ben (of New Jersey Hi-Railers fame, and Staten Is. I believe) OK?

Frank M.

Ben is okay.  You can view his post here -

 

https://ogrforum.com/d...nt/10299794788675873

 

Scroll down.

 

Pete