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Have been watching the CNN channel,in fact,still am(coffee break,Charlie..:D)Absolutely horrendous weather..There is a crane 90 storeys up,on a building in Manhattan,that wants to come down..Dont know if its fallen yet..Scary news footage guys..All of you guys n dolls on the Eastern seaboard,,stay safe..Looks ugly..:whacked::(
You get way to many coffee brakes. It is quit windy out even as far away as I am Sandy is blowing here. I have a boy in Virgina beach he says its suposed to get worse tonight.. Barb is probably getting rain & snow. her son Charlie is in Conn. they are realy catching hell
Only one in the morning,and I will have one at 3pm today as well..Plus lunch..Gotta keep me upright..:D:D
In preparation, trying to remove any wind blown projectiles from the yard.... all the porch chairs went into the wife's trailer and then put it away in the garage. With the only open bay being the paint booth, had about an inch on either side to spare while backing it through the door, never thought about the height.... just enough clearance!
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You are lucky it fits..Not a lot of clearance,,but some is enough..Dont unload it in there,,you might not get it back out..:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by MP&C
You folks on the east coast take care.
doing pretty good here. minor flooding and now very windy. gusts up to 50 mph. praying for those poor people north of va. have not heard from charlie since last night but i am sure that he is fine. his base keeps me up to date on what is happening there as much as they can.
just talked to charlie. all the piers are under water. he and everyone else are restricted to barracks. getting gusts there of 80 mph. says that he hopes the galley is open tomorrow.
We sent four safety strike teams out yesterday from Calif to the affected areas, today they sent out 150 power line workers from our own PGE, and two c-130`s of equipment to assist in the power restoration..Hope all is well for those that we know..
Southern California Edison, my former employer, is sending 170 people and a whole slug of equipment to New York; and like Rich posted, Pacific Gas & Electric, the other big power company in California is sending 150 workers and a bunch of equipment. This sort of thing happens all the time, but you seldom hear anything about it in the news.
My wife has a cousin,who has a store in Duane Street,off Broadway West ( I think),about a block and a half from Battery Pt..The place is called Stella..High quality house goods,(towels,sheets n stuff,I think) Havent spoken to her,but I would think she may be under water,going by what I saw on the CNN channel,yesterday and today..I hope everyone else up there is doing alright..gunna take a few days to clean this lot up..But,hey,,there seems to be a lot of folk without a job,who could pitch in and earn their dole money..:rolleyes:
We even have four linesmen going out from our little town to pitch in! Maybe it's not nice to say, but it would seem Mother Nature is the best Jobs creator!!! Mother Nature for Prez?????
no matter what our political and other differences are in this country this really brings tears to my eyes. We go through so much sometimes in this country that makes me wonder if we can come through it. When things hit the fan here we all come together. Makes me really proud to be a american.
I was doing some of my normal on line news wandering this morning and came across this from the UK's Daily Mail. This has about the best graphic photos and really shows how much damage there is in the NY-NJ area:
Hurricane Sandy 2012 pictures: FIFTY DEAD... and it's NOT over | Mail Online
It's long, but worth a few minutes look. Ironic - I'm less then 150 miles from this and all we had were some 40-50 mph gusts and almost no rain.
Sure are going to be a bunch of rusty cars starting to show up on ebay and the likes. I'd beware of anything sold out of NJ & NY for awhile. They will hit the scene pretty fast cause they will try to unload them before they start showing, car faxs not going to help.
Thoughts and Prayers still going out for all our Neighbors to the NE.
If you happened to be one of the "lucky ones", remember to help those who weren't as fortunate.
meller
Not sure how it was last night up your way IC2... but last night was downright frightening! The backside of Sandy ran us over with torrential rain and lightning that would chill anyone to the bone! My basement was taking on water but my 2 sump pumps kept it in check.
Whew! Glad that has gone past!
Virtually not much more than some 30-40mph breezy gusts scattering the leaves on the ground on Monday along with an hour or two of rain last night - 90+% of everything, for once, went around us. Glad to hear you are coping with it though as I was wondering how your part of MA was getting alongQuote:
Originally Posted by 34_40
Mat Chris' oldest boy is on his way to the Wasp to assist the Coast Guard in rescue operations around N.Y. & N.J.
Caught a bit of the devastation on the news this morning, going to be a very long and very expensive cleanup and rebuild out there!!!! When it comes to man vs the forces of nature, we're going to lose every time! Worst part is, as always, the scammers and con artist's will inundate the area and do their best to rip people off! Hope the authorities are reminding the people out there just how "deadly" those piranhas can be!!!!
We lost power for alittle over a day. Never in my 25yrs in my home have we gone without electric for that long.It sucked sitting in the dark and only being able to listen to the radio. The only thing we lost was some frozen food that we threw out.No problems with the house just lots of leaves all over. I can't even imagine what those people in NJ + NY are coping with. I hear that in some places they won't get it back for a month. The people that lost everything my heart goes out to them. We are donating to the fund to help.
Funny, the shop on Shoemaker never lost power (stop in tomorrow for the absolute auction), had a few hours on and off in Douglassville. Been rescuing family and friends from NJ all week. Last one tonight when I bring my Mother-in-law down from northern, NJ where she has been without heat and electricity all week.
Bill S.
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Originally Posted by sunsetdart
Good to hear you guys came through it ok, Bill and Sunset!!!! For sure going to be a long time rebuilding in the areas hit the hardest!
Hope you can get a good turnout for the auction tomorrow, Bill. Wish it wasn't over 1100 miles away....Quote:
Originally Posted by mrmustang
I was working in New London,CT today and a city Board of Works member told me that the Coast Guard (who has there Academy there) called the city and offered 1600 cadets and up to 10 duece and a halfs to put to use as the city saw fit, for cleanups rescues etc...
The city told them "we'll get back to you on that"... The city wouldn't use the cadets 'cause they weren't unionized and the local D.P.U. wouldn't work with them!!
All you can do is shake your head!!
Its all about MONEY, you can't tell me that the unions are not runing this countryQuote:
Originally Posted by 34_40
Same deal happened in NJ, a bunch of linemen drove from Alabama too NJ,because they were not Union goons they were told they could not work. It is amazing the lack of intellect of lefty, really shows the care for the people in need. And they walk around in wonder as to what could be the reason the membership is declining. Understandable that they would not have a clue to their problem, they lack common sense.
Some people sure are free with labels and affiliations!!!! The union has a rule against non-union workers, and that's the fault of the Democratic Party!!!!! Quite a stretch!!!! Oh well, what do you expect from a bunch of millionaire wanna be right wingers???? Thought I'd try a bit of stereotyping myself and see how it goes over!!!!!!:LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:
So how did it feel Dave? LOL..Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Severson
How big a Union do you think the US Military is??? And in an emergency / time of crisis?? C'mon... we're not talking full or part time here. No one stealing anyones job!
And it was the city who wouldn't accept the help 'cause they were scared of what the union membership would do or say!
I was in the Teamsters and AFSCME and even the Ladies Garment Workers once!! We'd never turn down the military helping people!!!
To clarify this one it was not the town that turned them away but the a Union official that did not have the authority to do so.Quote:
Originally Posted by pepi
Bill S.
Yeah, after your post I thought I'd just throw in a thought that "the other side" might be thinking.... I'm sure you knew when you made your post that someone would have to out do it and turn it into another shot against Democrats....which I'm not one of, BTW, just (still, and ever increasingly) tired of the bs storytelling and stereotyping this thread has brought out. With enough of a twist, I'm sure creative folks can blame the other party for most anything, right???
The only thing resembling good news I hear today was that 170,000 folks went off the roles of the unemployed and returned to the working world and paying taxes again....but then that's also bad news cause it should have been a higher number, I suppose....... Bet it isn't bad news though if you happen to be one of the 170,000 folks who returned to the work force!!!!!
Once the rescue operations and dangers with open gas lines, downed power lines, etc. is cleaned up, there's going to be a lot of employment opportunity in the devastated areas!!!! I guess that's just some of the old fashioned "Every cloud has a silver lining" stuff!!! I've been accused of enjoying a "warm fuzzy" feeling over issues, guess I'll just have to plead guilty and go on looking for good news and positive things as the clean up and rebuild from Sandy continues!!!!!
[QUOTE=Dave Severson;479343]Yeah, after your post I thought I'd just throw in a thought that "the other side" might be thinking.... I'm sure you knew when you made your post that someone would have to out do it and turn it into another shot against Democrats.... QUOTE]
Actually.. NO. Maybe I was being nieve (spelling?) but, I was amazed / shocked it went political.. but later I realized I should have expected that!
Oh well.. it'll be all better in 5 days and we can ignore the politicos for another 3.5 years and then we can do it all again! ;)