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Don't know how many of you guys, if any, live in the affected area, but sending my best wishes and thoughts to everyone.
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Hurricane Sandy
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Thoughts and prayers for anyone there, or anyone who has family there.
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We just got a little bit of strong wind here in Ottawa, Ontario. A transformer blew behind my house around 3:20 this morning and caused a power outage. Power was back up a few hours later though. I've got a friend in Carney's Point, New Jersey and one in Point Pleasant, New Jersey though so I hope they're doing alright.
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Manhattan looks pretty shaken today - lots of trees down and power out on the whole south part of the island, but not too bad really considering what it could have been. Very strange to see the whole subway/bus/plane services all shut down though! NYC is taking the day off.
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I am in the NY area, just outside NYC, and I work in Manhattan.
We are OK, as is the school I work at. My parents, who live on the other side of my town, have downed trees, no power, and roof damage. My mom just spoke to her neighbor, who heard that the latest estimate for when power might (might) be restored to their part of town is fourteen to sixteen days.
There are no buses, no trains, no subways. Seven subway lines -- basically, all of the lines that connect Manhattan to Brooklyn -- got flooded.
The FDR (a major Manhattan road, for those of you who don't know) was completely submerged at the height of the storm. Power went out to pretty much all of Manhattan south of 39th Street after a transformer exploded at the Con Ed power station on 14th Street. Apparently, there is still no phone service, even for people with landlines.
A hospital at NYU lost both power and its backup generator, which forced staff to evacuate 250 patients -- some of them critical newborns in NICU -- to other hospitals, walking or carrying them down to long lines of waiting ambulances.
There were many, many fires in Queens, and some of them just had to burn, since firefighters couldn't get to them. Red Hook in Brooklyn got hit particularly hard by flooding, and the ocean flowed onto Manhattan streets from the Battery all the way up into Harlem. I even heard reports of cars floating down streets just a few blocks from where I work (which is closed).
At least ten people have died so far, which is actually amazingly few, all things considered.
Oh, and parts of the Boardwalk in Atlantic City floated away...
My brother is an emergency planner in southern New Jersey, which also got hit very hard. He left for his Office of Emergency Management on Sunday, and he's still not sure when he will be able to go home.
So yeah, I'm feeling very, very lucky, and very shaken up.
http://gothamist.com/2012/10/29/photos_cars_are_floating_through_fl.php
We are OK, as is the school I work at. My parents, who live on the other side of my town, have downed trees, no power, and roof damage. My mom just spoke to her neighbor, who heard that the latest estimate for when power might (might) be restored to their part of town is fourteen to sixteen days.
There are no buses, no trains, no subways. Seven subway lines -- basically, all of the lines that connect Manhattan to Brooklyn -- got flooded.
The FDR (a major Manhattan road, for those of you who don't know) was completely submerged at the height of the storm. Power went out to pretty much all of Manhattan south of 39th Street after a transformer exploded at the Con Ed power station on 14th Street. Apparently, there is still no phone service, even for people with landlines.
A hospital at NYU lost both power and its backup generator, which forced staff to evacuate 250 patients -- some of them critical newborns in NICU -- to other hospitals, walking or carrying them down to long lines of waiting ambulances.
There were many, many fires in Queens, and some of them just had to burn, since firefighters couldn't get to them. Red Hook in Brooklyn got hit particularly hard by flooding, and the ocean flowed onto Manhattan streets from the Battery all the way up into Harlem. I even heard reports of cars floating down streets just a few blocks from where I work (which is closed).
At least ten people have died so far, which is actually amazingly few, all things considered.
Oh, and parts of the Boardwalk in Atlantic City floated away...
My brother is an emergency planner in southern New Jersey, which also got hit very hard. He left for his Office of Emergency Management on Sunday, and he's still not sure when he will be able to go home.
So yeah, I'm feeling very, very lucky, and very shaken up.
http://gothamist.com/2012/10/29/photos_cars_are_floating_through_fl.php
This just in.... Worlds largest water park to open soon.
Reports say that next summer Americans will be able to check out the newest water park "new jersey".
The park includes such rides as "subway tsunami", the "jersey shore lagoon", the "brunswick avenue lazy river" and much more!
Reports say that next summer Americans will be able to check out the newest water park "new jersey".
The park includes such rides as "subway tsunami", the "jersey shore lagoon", the "brunswick avenue lazy river" and much more!
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Sorry Juice... There can only be 1 Neg and 1 Frink. The rest of us are expected to be respectable and such...
nightstalkerpoet said:
Then you obviously don't know we very well. Maybe it was a bit too tsunami but i still enjoyed writing it and laughing with my buddies. It got far worse than what i posted.
Yes i am aware of how horrible the true situation is and i do feel for the people effected. But i lived through hurricane Andrew and saw that first hand. I cant do anything to help the situation so i make light of it.
If someone finds it too offensive, im rather sure there is an ignore button somewhere on the forums.
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... That wasn't an attack or criticism, FTR. Simply an amused comment on the number of dislikes. And we should talk more. I never have gotten my fill of Juice on here. :llama:
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juice4z0 said:
I meant to hit the dislike button but accidentally hit the like button.
