Franken Storm AKA Hurricane Sandy to hit eastcoast

[nikimcbee]

@AVG
Are you able to post any pictures?

[AVGWarhawk]

I have posted a few in the past. Mostly my trucks in a staging areas. Nothing of real interest or you have seen in the news already. We asked for pictures of my trailer broken in two. Insurance reasons. I have not seen them. Drivers will take a few pictures and share. Most just go about the task at hand. In short, no pictures to share. Just memories of oddball happenings and odd things people do at times like this.

Here is Irene and my trailers staged

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ighlight=irene

[soopaman2]

My power is still out. Message will be short. I hate typing with my phone. Belmar is underwater, and our barrier islands do not exist anymore. The storm surge was phenominal. It seems like every tree in the state exploded and took out wires. My particular substation was underwater when the storm surge pushed a good 10 feet of water up the river. I got some pics but not many, as i got out of my news reporter shtick when branches started landing in my bedroom. Seeya again when my juice is back on.

[u crank]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

My power is still out. Message will be short. I hate typing with my phone. Belmar is underwater, and our barrier islands do not exist anymore. The storm surge was phenominal. It seems like every tree in the state exploded and took out wires. My particular substation was underwater when the storm surge pushed a good 10 feet of water up the river. I got some pics but not many, as i got out of my news reporter shtick when branches started landing in my bedroom. Seeya again when my juice is back on.

Good to hear from you Soopa. You guys took a big hit.

We've been thinking about you. Keep in touch.

[Jimbuna]

Pleased to learn you are safe soopaman2

[Rockstar]

Good to hear from you soopaman2. Hope life gets back on track for you real soon.

[yubba]

Well I made it to New York {Corning area} no damage a few limbs down, saw a snow flurry,, well they say it's going to be 19 degrees F tonight so you folks in sandys ground zero will see 30s I guess if you haven't done it yet you folks with no power should find a nice insulated room in your home and turn it in to a family bedroom, you all sleep together it will be warmer because of the body heat, and please be careful with any fueled heaters make sure you have plenty of ventalation.

[yubba]

Like throwing salt into a wound, sorry that the weather turned on you folks with no power,,.stay warm and dry. It might sound foolish but it might be fun for the kids, building table forts,, get what blankets you are not using or curtains and drape them over a table like a tent makes a warm place in a cold house, put bedding in there to..

[yubba]

Now that the wind has die down, you folks that lost power should think about safely building a fire, a trick that I'll pass along is find a metal bucket fill it with stone, broken concrete, or brick not to the point that you can't carry it put it over the fire and heat it, try not to melt the pail, find something nonflameable, to sit pail on like a metal chair, or a cinderblock so you can safely sit it down on,, in side your home, or that table fort that I told you about.

[geetrue]

I feel so blessed sitting here with a heater on high watching CNN and surfing the web.

Sorry so many are suffering ... they won't forget the end of 2012 that's for sure

[soopaman2]

This wall bore the brunt of the 90 mph winds.

So did this car...




This link provides a sat pic of Matoloking NJ,. A sleepy town on the barrier islands that suffered 99% losses.
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/3729...rm-threat.html

The destroyed bridge, used to be state highway 35.

Too lazy to host them, just click it. It is worth it.

I got my power back 10 days later, then lost it again when a heavy wet slushy snow fell, and pulled down weakened wires and trees.

This storm is the worse I ever saw, not alot of rain, but the damage...

I am back again, damn I missed you guys.

I wish I had more pics, but survival kinda took over beyond archiving, it got real freaking bad here.

I found myself unprepared, as "we never get it this bad inland" Never again.

[Stealhead]

I can relate Soopaman back in 2004 my part of Florida got hit by two canes with in a few weeks of each other Charley and then Frances.I live about 40 miles inland so we did not have to deal with surges but it took out lots of cars and living rooms around here and whole homes closer to the coast.I got very lucky and had no serious damage besides trees that had to be cleared.

After the first storm the power was out for 12 days after the second an amazing 14 days all in the summer heat no power is much worse in the winter though.I'm just glad that we never got hit with Katrina or Sandy strength storms cat 5s.

I have some family that lives on the other side of Lake Pontchartrain their house got washed away completely by Katrina luckily they where not in the area at the time and are wealthy so it was not as much of a loose to them as it would have been to others still loosing your home is always lame.

[soopaman2]

Stealhead

I feel bad whining about a hurricane to guys from down south. Florida gets these all the time.

We up here are vulnerable due to our coastline shape. Yeah making excuses. Storm surge, and winds killed us, the rain was kinda unimpressive.


They are calling it superstorm sandy in the media, due to the fact it was subtropical when it creamed us. 90 mph winds? Subtropical? Your the weatherman, not me

But still second behind Katrina in damage caused ($)

Except we evacuated when told to do so, unlike Katrina.

[mookiemookie]

Glad to see you personally made it through in one piece.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

Stealhead

I feel bad whining about a hurricane to guys from down south. Florida gets these all the time.

We up here are vulnerable due to our coastline shape. Yeah making excuses. Storm surge, and winds killed us, the rain was kinda unimpressive.


They are calling it superstorm sandy in the media, due to the fact it was subtropical when it creamed us. 90 mph winds? Subtropical? Your the weatherman, not me

But still second behind Katrina in damage caused ($)

Except we evacuated when told to do so, unlike Katrina.

After Andrew back in 92(or 93) which devastated much of south Florida including an Air Force base the state began to require much stricter building codes and in many coastal counties in the southern part of the state have even stricter standards.

Now the issue of coastlines and how close we like to build to the water is another issue though nature has that buffer zone for a reason after all.

Hopefully things will be learned from Sandy.

Hindsight is better than foresight when it comes to Katrina the last storm of that scale was Andrew and it hit Florida and after Andrew crying wolf became a bit common.Katrina wound up being very bad especially in Mississippi where they got the full force and in New Orleans what screwed them was infrastructure that was not able to handle what it faced.Another issue for New Orleans was that many people there do not own a car down that way and there was not really adequate means for these people to leave even if they wanted to.You must also remember that the last serious hurricane to hit N.O. before Katrina was way back in the 60's and people tend to forget things after a while.

It is odd how some regions just dodge a bullet take the North Atlantic coast of Florida from St. Augustine to Jacksonville on up into Southern Georgia that region has never been hit by a hurricane in recorded history.I think they have come in near or a little above Savannah but never lower until you get past St. Augustine.

Post Katrina everyone saw what can happen and now warnings tend to be taken much more seriously.though as you yourself said you where not really prepared well enough.


Wind speed does not have to get that high to cause damage either even a steady 60mph wind over several hours can do a good bit of damage.Then you have the surge near the coast which is in my opinion the real killer.Further inland in most cases is where you get more rain.Back in 2004 we had tons of rain and that is what took down most trees all the water weighing them down combined with the winds it was just too much for the root system and the tree would just flop over.

The worst part for me was Charley which had strong winds and tons of rain around 2:00 in the morning(I cant sleep during hurricane I assume most people cant) I could hear this very loud wind but it did not make the same sound as what a tornado is supposed to make it was a really creepy noise like the start of doomsday or something.Before I could really react it went away.
Next day I looked across the road from my house into this patch of pine forest right in the middle of it was a 80 wide circle like a giant fist had punched down all the trees it looked like a mini-Tunguska (place in Siberia not the AAA vehicle).It was something and what ever that was it must have been the loud noise I had heard good thing it was not right over a home when it happened.