Ceptic Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 If you're reading this, Trisonic, (i'm guessing you live in the NY area), I hope you are well stocked up, and safe. As I do, others. Keep yer head down. Ceptic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 If his situation is similar to my colleages (also in the New Jersey / eastern Pennsylvania area) he will already be experiencing downed trees playing harry with power lines, resulting in intermittent power. Winds are dangerous and the volume of rain is huge. There is already a lot of coastal innundation at the shore with the storm surge and high tides. The eye of the hurricane (hopefully down-graded to a tropical storm) is expected to cross the New Jersey shore around Atlantic City at 8:00pm EDT (midnight GMT?) tonight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptic Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 If his situation is similar to my colleages (also in the New Jersey / eastern Pennsylvania area) he will already be experiencing downed trees playing harry with power lines, resulting in intermittent power. Winds are dangerous and the volume of rain is huge. There is already a lot of coastal innundation at the shore with the storm surge and high tides. The eye of the hurricane (hopefully down-graded to a tropical storm) is expected to cross the New Jersey shore around Atlantic City at 8:00pm EDT (midnight GMT?) tonight. Thanks for your up-date Ozexpatriate. My thoughts, and best wishes (including Thanksgiving), are with you, all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted October 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 29, 2012 I too have a colleague in the New York area - hang in there Pete (Trisonic), Claude (my workmate), and everyone else affected by these terrible storms. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
10800 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Thoughts with Pete and anyone else in the affected area in the NE US and around the Canadian border. Stay safe guys and hope to see you all safe and well on the other side. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Simon Lee Posted October 29, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 29, 2012 Hope everyone is safe, a very sobering reminder that the forces of nature are the real power on our planet, not men or nations. Keep safe guys and girls Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Not heard from Pete today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Batten down the hatches and stay safe, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Plenty of power supply disruption I'll wager! Fingers crossed for everybody. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Plenty of power supply disruption I'll wager! As of 4:14pm EDT (about an hour ago) ... from CNN: 'the number of customers without power because of Hurricane Sandy [is] more than 765,000 in seven states ... with New York and New Jersey being the most affected states with more than 220,000 outages each.' One of the tradegies of this storm is the loss of the replica HMS Bounty at sea, off the coast of North Carolina. Two crew members are missing. As of 7:13 pm EDT ... More than 2.2 million customers are without power in 11 states and the District of Columbia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashcombe Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 When things return to normal, it will be good for Trisonic to read these messages and know we were routing for him. Thinking of all the poor folk over there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_long Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 There's Tony Sissons too in NC. Very sad about the Bounty also. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted October 29, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 29, 2012 Hope they all stay safe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted October 29, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 29, 2012 Such news reports as are reaching us are not encouraging. I have several friends (including Pete / Trisonic) in the affected area and have heard from none in the past 12 hours. I am assuming power is out. All public transportation has ceased with New York subways being boarded, sandbagged and barricaded to prevent flooding. Staff are being asked to shelter at a work location rather than home to ensure they are on site and able to effect a quick return to service when possible. Landfall is now expected within the next 2-3 hours. Already parts of Atlantic City are under water and there is local flooding throughout the region. Many trees are reported down. Stay safe over there and come back to us when you can. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 When things return to normal, it will be good for Trisonic to read these messages and know we were routing for him. Thinking of all the poor folk over there. Well said, Ashers. Stay safe, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gringo Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Hello everyone, I've had a couple of pm's from Pete and I'm sure he won't mind me sharing. Late on Sunday night (UK time) he said he was, "preparing for the worst and hoping for the best" and that I might not hear from him until late Tuesday. However, it looks like Sandy is moving slightly slower than he thought then. At 7:15am (UK time) I got another note saying, "the worst thing was sitting and waiting" and that "he'd taken anything likely to be a missile out of his garden. They had plenty of water, dry and canned foodstuffs, batteries, etc." and "he hoped to be back in touch on Wednesday" - after Sandy has blown through the eastern seaboard. I guess that like me, all of us here on RMweb are thinking of our friends in the eastern U.S.A. sitting in the path of the storm, and especially keeping our fingers crossed for Pete and his family. Hope they all stay safe and well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Thanks for sharing that John. Thinking of you and your family Pete. Hope all will be back to normal soon. Stay safe.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_long Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 The high water is bringing new wildlife into New Jersey too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I can only echo everyone's concerns and comments, lets hope that 'Sandy' gets downgraded again soon as it gets nearer to our friends over there. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I was chatting with a friend in Wilmington, DE an hour ago. She still had power and the weather wasn't too bad. However, Wilmington is (just) south of the track, and so is on the back side of the circulation. Areas north of the track are the ones getting hit the worst. We are getting rain and wind gusts (warnings for gusts to 90km/h) in the Toronto area, 800+km from the centre of the storm. Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Areas north of the track are the ones getting hit the worst. We are getting rain and wind gusts (warnings for gusts to 90km/h) in the Toronto area, 800+km from the centre of the storm. 2.8 million without power Storm surge of 12.4' on Long Island, 12.75' at the Batttery in Manhattan (3' higher than Hurricane Donna in 1960) All bridges and tunnels to Manhattan closed, Reports of 4' flooding in the subway tunnels under the East River Subway station flooding in Lower Manhattan JFK and La Guardia airports closed due to "flooding" Lower air pressures than the Long Island Express of 1938 Three feet of October snow in West Virginia 4.55" of rain in Atlantic City in one day, almost double the record single day total of 2.33" NY State deaths at five, including a man killed inside a house by a falling tree Manhattan really dodged a bullet with Irene last year. Sandy was not so kind. Two hurricanes in the NY metro in two years. This is most unusual. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIRR Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Good evening folks, It is a bit unpleasant in the New York area. The flooding seems to be worse than expected. I have no idea about Pete's location, but I would hope that he took all necessary precautions. At least with a hurricane you do get some warning. Andy (in Queens, NYC) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonBradley Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Thinking of you Pete and all the othrs. I haven't turned on my TV yet. Am about to to get the latest update./ Looking forward to hearing from you, probably not until tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted October 30, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 30, 2012 As it's been unfolding across the middle of our day I have had news feeds on continuously. No word first-hand from anyone I know in the area other than a single blog post made from the tip of Long Island at 9am our time which I reckon is 6pm local US time. Flooding is extensive and has breached some of the Subway protection - CCTV images exist of waters gushing through entrances and from which the only way is down to the tracks below. Road tunnels are under several feet of floodwater. Bridges are closed with unconfirmed reports of one having been severely damaged by "a floating house". The financial district of NYC is under substantial volumes of floodwater which has prompted comments of "Another Wall Street bail-out" among those able to see the humorous side. Ground Zero has become a new lake. The top of the tide has passed and water levels should be slowly falling but the danger is far from over. The storm - now downgraded to below hurricane strength and slowly abating - is affecting an unprecedented area of the North American continent. Buildings have collapsed, fires have claimed more and a small number (as reported thus far) of lives has been lost though at least so far the number has ben perhaps far less than might have been anticipated. Hang in there. This will pass and normality will be restored. It seems the US administration even has the power to alter the date of Hallowe'en at the stroke of a pen which somehow seems to be more of a concern than possibly altering the date of the election. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Thinking of you Pete - batten down the hatches and looking forward to hearing from you again once the winds have passed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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