We are mostly fine here in Philadelphia – modulo lawn furniture and trash cans playing hide-and-seek. We had a few flickers of power loss, but nothing that the UPS couldn’t handle. I hope my East Coast brethren are all safe and dry and well-lit.
Walter
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I am thrilled to hear! I was thinking of you.
We are fine up here in Buffalo. I had a tree down but it missed the house by a couple of feet. No power outage here… but all the schools cancelled prematurally though
Julie
On Oct 30, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Walter Lee Davis email@hidden wrote:
We are mostly fine here in Philadelphia – modulo lawn furniture and trash cans playing hide-and-seek. We had a few flickers of power loss, but nothing that the UPS couldn’t handle. I hope my East Coast brethren are all safe and dry and well-lit.
Walter
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I would be interested to hear from any NY residents - like Barry Hoffman - about their experience with Sandy.
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From what I’ve seen, things are not good. Check out these Fox images: http://www.foxnews.com/weather/slideshow/2012/10/29/superstorm-sandy-hits-east-coast/#slide=1
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I’m glad to be warm and dry over here in the west. My prayers are with you all!
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Not being a stranger to this sort of thing, I wish you all well! The next days and weeks may well be tougher than the storm for many.
Cheers,
P
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After Ike, we were without power for 8 days, cable modem service even longer as other parts of our neighborhood and town were out for over two weeks. Even worse, after the hurricane, it brought a HUGE rainstorm hours later, flooding many houses that had been damaged by Ike via the holes it had made in roofs and walls. OTOH, the weather was extremely mild after that so we were lucky in that regard.
I wonder why so many got hurt or killed by Sandy - did they not evacuate for some reason? I also wonder why there are so many reports of people getting angry. With that much devastation, recovery and rebuilding takes time. I do realize the weather is not nearly as nice as it was here after Ike, so people in cold houses can get frustrated.
Anyway, I wish everyone up there well. My mom doesn’t have power but was hanging out with a family with a generator, and my sister had no ill effects from the storm, so that’s all good.
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I was in Viet Nam two year ago when the tsunami warning came. (Which destroyed the nuc powerplants in Japan) in the end nothing happened with me there then, just some 50 cm more sealevel. But I still remember the absurdity of the situation. All so peacefull, so quiet. Waiting for ‘something’. What do you do. Run? Go up, into the hills?
Some years earlier a friend was in the tsunamy in Thailand and lost his wife, so I was worried indeed.
One cannot understand how it is, this sudden brutal change from peacefullness to absolut disaster. Unless one has been there while it happened.
That changes ones life for good.
The silent picture in the New Yorker says it all.
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