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Hurricane Sandy
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:24 pm
by Shinobi
I've been seeing a lot of messages and warnings all day, about how this Hurricane is going to merge with a cold front to make a 2nd "Perfect Storm". While not trying to stoke up paranoia, please be very aware and very careful... all you people in the affected areas. No one need this B.S. before the holiday season.
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:59 am
by YARDofSTUF
Heard it could be horrible, or not so bad for us in CT.
All I know is last year at this time a snow storm destroyed this state worse than ever and knocked out power for 9 days, I am not looking forward to another 9 days without power.
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 3:01 pm
by RoundEye
I thought a hurricane needed warm air/water, cold weather just douses it out.
A tropical cyclone can cease to have tropical characteristics through several different ways. One such way is if it moves over land, thus depriving it of the warm water it needs to power itself, quickly losing strength. Most strong storms lose their strength very rapidly after landfall and become disorganized areas of low pressure within a day or two, or evolve into extratropical cyclones. While there is a chance a tropical cyclone could regenerate if it managed to get back over open warm water, if it remains over mountains for even a short time, weakening will accelerate. Many storm fatalities occur in mountainous terrain, as the dying storm unleashes torrential rainfall, leading to deadly floods and mudslides, similar to those that happened with Hurricane Mitch in 1998. additionally, dissipation can occur if a storm remains in the same area of ocean for too long, mixing the upper 60 metres (200 ft) of water, dropping sea surface temperatures more than 5 °C (9 °F). Without warm surface water, the storm cannot survive.
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 3:55 pm
by RaisinCain
RoundEye wrote:I thought a hurricane needed warm air/water, cold weather just douses it out.
Obviously not.
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:44 pm
by Shinobi
RoundEye wrote:I thought a hurricane needed warm air/water, cold weather just douses it out.
FYI.. from two sources:
As it merges with an Arctic jet stream, forecasters said Sandy had all the ingredients to morph into a so-called "super storm," unlike anything seen over the eastern United States in decades.
The primary difference between a tropical cyclone and a wintertime cyclone is the energy
source. Tropical cyclones extract heat from the ocean and grow by releasing that heat in the
atmosphere near the storm center. Wintertime cyclones (also called extratropical or frontal
lows), on the other hand, get most of their energy from temperature contrasts in the
atmosphere, and this energy usually gets distributed over larger areas. Because of these
differences, tropical cyclones tend to have more compact wind fields, tend to be more
symmetric, and have a well-defined inner core of strong winds. Wintertime lows have strong
temperature contrasts or fronts attached to them, have a broader wind field, and more complex
distributions of rain or snow.
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 10:49 pm
by Humboldt
Family in its path, hope everyone stays safe and it blows itself out or goes to sea.
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 12:30 am
by BMED
RoundEye wrote:I thought a hurricane needed warm air/water, cold weather just douses it out.
1 oz white rum
1 oz Jamaican dark rum
1 oz Bacardi® 151 rum
3 oz orange juice
3 ozunsweetened pineapple juice
1/2 oz grenadine syrup
crushed ice
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:16 am
by Mad_Haggis
Bad recipe.
Never drink alone.
Thats the start of a problem.
6.5 never offsets
HOW do we like our fruit? 50/50 was cool back in the day.
Now with global warming/climate change?,
What was the question? "We are the champions",Queen
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:22 am
by Mad_Haggis
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:07 am
by blebs
Yeah well this about sums it up for me. Time to hit the liquor store.
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NYC transit system to be shut down ahead of Sandy
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:35 am
by Shinobi
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:13 pm
by morbidpete
blebs wrote:Yeah well this about sums it up for me. Time to hit the liquor store.
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Sweet, I'm in the LQ store spot! Little ole' Rhode island! Looking forward to some awesome waves!
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:07 pm
by YeOldeStonecat
Schools already stating they're closing until Wed.
Voluntary evacuations encouraged around a few coastal towns around here.
They're really hyping this up behind all expectations of typical media overhype...lol. Good grief...whip everyone up into a frenzy media!
Gonna be windy, limbs 'n trees will fall, some may lose power for a bit...but we get through it. Part of living along the coast.
I consider hurricanes (or big tropical storms) to be easier to deal with than those that live in tornado areas...or bad earthquakes. Those things totally destroy homes. Hurricanes...usually much more minor damage.
I have to do a point of sale network install at a liquor store tomorrow..will stock up then!
And then two more liquor store POS networks throughout the rest of the week.
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:41 pm
by YARDofSTUF
YeOldeStonecat wrote:Schools already stating they're closing until Wed.
Voluntary evacuations encouraged around a few coastal towns around here.
They're really hyping this up behind all expectations of typical media overhype...lol. Good grief...whip everyone up into a frenzy media!
Gonna be windy, limbs 'n trees will fall, some may lose power for a bit...but we get through it. Part of living along the coast.
I consider hurricanes (or big tropical storms) to be easier to deal with than those that live in tornado areas...or bad earthquakes. Those things totally destroy homes. Hurricanes...usually much more minor damage.
I have to do a point of sale network install at a liquor store tomorrow..will stock up then!
And then two more liquor store POS networks throughout the rest of the week.
Maybe all this hype is to help CL&P be prepared this time
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:14 pm
by YeOldeStonecat
YARDofSTUF wrote:Maybe all this hype is to help CL&P be prepared this time
LOL...yeah Irene caught them with their pants down! LOL
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:28 pm
by morbidpete
National grid booked every open room in the hotel I manage. 56 rooms of 60 to national grid. The owner is happy! Lol
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:56 pm
by JawZ
My family and I are gonna take a beating on this one and my parents may lose everything as they live along the Delaware river which is expected to flood. I am right in it's path so it's gonna be a long time without power. Cya on the other side.
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:05 pm
by YARDofSTUF
YeOldeStonecat wrote:LOL...yeah Irene caught them with their pants down! LOL
The snow storm after Irene is what caught them with their pants down.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:39 am
by BaLa
This is gonna be an interesting one to watch.
Not sure what my Travel Agent has planned after delivering tomorrow.
But we don't do East Coast unfortunately it would be fun though.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:39 am
by BaLa
Double post delete pls.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:34 am
by PsykoPenguin
blebs wrote:Yeah well this about sums it up for me. Time to hit the liquor store.
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and get all that alcohol you can't afford.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:16 am
by morbidpete
PsykoPenguin wrote:and get all that alcohol you can't afford.
With red lights flashing, time to retire.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:19 am
by morbidpete
So since I live directly on the water (seawall stops it from entering our basement) took my servers offline and moved them upstairs. Went to the hotel I do work for and staying here for the day and Monday night. For the bubble :-) hoping no damage when I get home. Stay safe everyone
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:24 am
by David
I am seeing patients this morning. Some see this as a day off, and choose to take care of their personal business.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:28 pm
by Mark
stay dry and safe all you northeastern peeps
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:21 pm
by David
Most of our barrier island shore towns are under water. Part of the Atlantic City boardwalk washed away.
The images are quite distressing.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:28 pm
by RaisinCain
Yes. This quite a disturbing situation. I hope everyone that lives in the affected areas is doing well.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:55 pm
by Shinobi
Stopping back in again.. guys this does not look good "at all". I just heard that the NYSE has 3 feet of water in it.
I have some friends and family living on Cape Cod, Mass. and at 1:00pm today.. they even have power outages and trees falling down... think about the distance that is, from say NYC or NJ!
I was thinking it may take a week in the major cites to clean up.. but I think it's going to take 2 weeks or more at least. The other thing to think about, is the financial problems this is going to cause. Not just in damage.. I mean if the subway's are shot makes it rough for companies to operate without employees. Just a lot of things.
Hopefully some of our New England and Tri-State members will post on their current status... praying for you.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:47 pm
by Humboldt
Luckily this one passed right on by my family in NC, hope everyone north of there is doing ok.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:37 pm
by YARDofSTUF
Shinobi wrote: Hopefully some of our New England and Tri-State members will post on their current status... praying for you.
It isnt bad here in CT, by the shore probably is, but the central area is doing better than when Irene hit last year, and much better than the winter storm after it.
I don't think theres too much to worry about with people getting to work, with snow storms we're use to that issue. People make it, and places run with reduced staff, it ends up working out.
EDIT: And I'm shocked, I still have power! The worst grid in the country is holding up well this time.
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:15 am
by YARDofSTUF
Storm was like nothing here, we lost a tree branch. Our power even held out, looks like Meggie lost power though.
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:03 pm
by YeOldeStonecat
We got dumped on bad. Had a window blow out of the house, tree fell on north side, along the shoreline we lost a lot of trees...a major tree across the road about every block...so we'll be without power well towards the weekend.
At the office now, which is also without power, but on generator. Getting some of our clients up remotely..doing D/R 'n business continuity stuff.
Neighbors of ours closer to the water had the ocean surge come through their house....homes ruined..water through the living rooms, another neighbor had a huge oak tree squash their ranch home. Friend of mine that owns a package store had 3x feet of ocean in it.
A good friend of ours lost their house completely to the ocean claimed..he lived literally right on the water and his house is in the deep!
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:56 pm
by 24giovanni
Just a lot of wind and rain here. Never lost power.
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:59 pm
by koldchillah
Just stopped in to check on our northern friends here on SG.. Sorry to hear about your friends & neighbors there Brian.. Glad you're ok and thanks for updating us. Hopefully you get power restored soon and can begin the cleanup/repair efforts. It sounds like you'll have a lot of work on your hands this week and into next on both ends of the spectrum (personal home stuff and plenty of extra work-related D/R stuff). Good luck with everything! Hang in there!
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:53 am
by Debbie
I still have electricity. I was worried about the trees around my house. So many wires going through them. 2/3 of New Rochelle is out of power.
A couple of homes in my neighborhood lost their aluminum siding.
My son is exhausted. He works for the Village of Mamaroneck and worked 24 hours straight. I'm waiting to hear from them today. They don't have power. I told them to come here to take a hot shower and fully charge their cell phones.
My sister lives on the other side of town by the Marina. She has no power. The surge carried a few boats into Hudson Park.
I have been just sitting here listening to the radio. Tuesday I hugged the tree in front of my house and thanked it for staying put. The wind was amazing!! My floors were vibrating!
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:05 pm
by Mark
Debbie wrote:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, My floors were vibrating!
hummmmmmmmm, i wonder how that felt LOL
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:01 pm
by YARDofSTUF
Mark wrote:hummmmmmmmm, i wonder how that felt LOL
WARNING: Thread derailment imminent!
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:33 pm
by Debbie
Crazy bastards!!!
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:38 pm
by Debbie
New Jersey got hit hard. My heart also goes out to the people in the 111 homes that burnt down in Breezy Point, Queens.
Limited train service. I'm going in tomorrow just to take care of a few things and hopefully will be out of there by noon.
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:56 am
by loop2kil
Hope everyone made it through the storm okay.