The Perfect Storm

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by Christien

What? I was just going to say how much I love the colour of that house! Seriously!

I know a guy with a purple house -- but he has an excuse; he's an architect.

[Buckterrier]

Originally Posted by jwasbury

I'm taking it seriously.

Hurricane Irene turned out to be less severe than the media hype, but even so dumped enough rain to cause flooding and I had 6" of water in the ground floor of my Jersey City rowhouse. No living space on the ground floor, but I do have some nice garage facilities where I keep tools, P-car, etc.

I'll be spending part of my weekend erecting sandbag dykes to try to keep water out of my garage and workshop space. Will be moving the cars to a high and dry location.

I live about 475 feet above sea level so flooding isn't really a concern for me. But wind is. I lost a beautiful ornamental apple tree during Irene.
Good luck to you Jacob. Let us know how you make out.

[jwasbury]

Originally Posted by Buckterrier

I live about 475 feet above sea level so flooding isn't really a concern for me. But wind is. I lost a beautiful ornamental apple tree during Irene.
Good luck to you Jacob. Let us know how you make out.

Thanks...about 5 ft above sea level here (and <2000ft from the Hudson River), though it's not seawater that floods us, it's the rainwater. However the storm water runoff goes into the Hudson, so there has got to be an interplay there.

This was the view from my front steps looking at my garage door during Irene. Water level did get a few inches higher than this. It was probably over 12 inches deep in the middle of our street.

[Brian in VA]

I took off 3 days next week. Plans to do yard work, take the kids to Monticello, drive the pcar. Now it's going to rain all 3 days. Awesome. Here's hoping the power stays on at least.

[Kraftwerk]

My brothers house is dark dark purple (looks black most of the time) also with white trim.. looks real classy actually for a VT farm house.
Go against convention.

Gonna move my boat on Sunday to a safe harbur should be a nice wet breeze by then.

[VINMAN]

Takin it pretty serious around here. Especially after Irene. I've already been put on standby for storm deployment.

[NY65912]

Im taking it real serious. I'm 5' above sea level and on a peninsula. One of the bulkheads is only 200' from my door. I am making plans to get the p car out of here.

We battened down at work too. My shop is a couple of hundred feet from the bulkhead on the Brooklyn side of The East River.

Probably taking in my daughter's boyfriend, he lives in Breezy Point, Rockaway. They are being told that they will have mandatory evacuation.

I am very nervous about this one.

[lonewolf]

They are talking potential for 30ft waves and 100mph winds for New York harbor .

[VINMAN]

I'm the first one to jump all over the media for overhyping the weather and scaring the crap out of everyone, but if this one stays on as predicted at the current time, we are in seriously deep doo-doo. The original track wasnt as bad as the current one for this area. NY/NJ is gonna get nailed with the NW corner of the storm. Not good.

Mike, youre in SH Bay right?

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[NY65912]

Born in Sheepshead Bay, now living in Bergen Beach.

OMG........30 ft waves???? Oh crap!

[widgeon13]

Not looking very good.........

Tracking Sandy: Monster Threat to East Coast - weather.com

[Baz]

Just had a 1 hour power outage here.....some branches fell onto a main transformer behind me. Our incredible utilities linemen came out in the winds and rain and resolved everything. Man these guys are heroes. We have our own utilities commission in our city. I never even call in when there's a (rare) outage...they just show up and fix things. The wind is honing out right now too...they pushed the envelope in that bucket truck!

Anyway...stay safe and hope you all get through this event OK!

[dafischer]

While I don't doubt that it's going to be a severe storm, I think the media and weather services are hyping this a bit, like it's somewhere between Katrina and the Apocalypse.
I live in western central NJ, about 10 mi, from the PA border, and there's no flood possibility here, just the rising tide in the basement of our 120 yr. old house if the power goes out. That and the potential joy of being without power for a week, just like last year about this time. Hopefully, there won't be snow to devastate our large Magnolia, which still has leaves. Just like last year....arrgh.
Oh well, it is what it is. Good luck all.

[GWN7]

I like the Purple................stock up on gas for the generators.

[lonewolf]

This is going to be bad guys. Could even effect /postpone the election.
Every environmental agency from around the world is studying what they are calling a once in a lifetime storm.
I've been watching by satellite weather news from Here ,Europe and all over the states. Every single weather person says they have never seen anything like it .

[Heel n Toe]

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Heading off to NYC for the first day of a much-needed vacation in a couple of hours. After that I'm heading down to VA so I'm likely to miss most of this. I think it'll be a mess for a couple of days in NJ, NY state and possibly some parts of PA with a bunch of rain and a few downed branches & trees in New England but other than that its more media sensationalism. I'm not rearranging my vacation plans for it but will monitor it and make adjustments if necessary.

It's the run-up period to an election and the MSM is equal parts bored (since the campaigns are on autopilot now, no more debates or likely verbal gaffes) and frothing at the mouth wanting something - anything to whip into a frenzy.

It'll be rainy and gusty and a bit of a mess for some and some people will lose power but at the end of the day it'll be all forgotten in a week.

On the upside it'll hopefully get all the leaves off the trees so I can get my yard cleaned up next weekend and don't need to think about it again until spring. Thankfully I covered the pool.

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by Brian in VA

I took off 3 days next week. Plans to do yard work, take the kids to Monticello, drive the pcar. Now it's going to rain all 3 days. Awesome. Here's hoping the power stays on at least.

Too bad you weren't here last week, The leaves were at peak and the view from up at TJ's is great

[widgeon13]

Originally Posted by GWN7

I like the Purple................stock up on gas for the generators.

Fortunately, we have an installed generator (propane) as we get outages in the winter and they can go for a few days so need to keep the furnace going when it's negative degrees. Last year during Irene it ran for 5 days straight. Actually I would shut it off at night to conserve propane. I did check out the chainsaw and snowblower though.

[Laneco]

I've got a business trip scheduled to Virginia a week from now - with stopovers in Cleveland and Dulles.

I guess the smart thing would be to just see how this plays out in the next day or two, then decide if a postponing the trip for a week or so is appropriate. I suspect that the issue for Virginia will be more power outages than anything.

angela