How's the Hurricane on the East Coast?

[FritzTKatt]

Started drizzling at about 4pm on Sunday. Didn't rain much until very early morning Monday. Got sent home from work before we punched in. Went to relax at the woman's house down in Browns Mills until about 6pm when it started to actually get bad. Got home and it still was just a mild rain storm, but some high winds had knocked some trees down. I was the good citizen and unblocked the entrance to my development from a downed tree (small one). This morning a smaller tree was down in my yard. Went to work, which is only a 10 minute drive... most of the road was covered in leaves, and a handful of medium trees/large branches down. Hainesport (where I work) was completely dark. Noone was there so I went home. Watched tv most of the day, and here we are.

Sandy just had a little sand where it didn't belong is all. We've had worse storms that... The woman still doesn't have power, I think she lost it last night/very early morning. We lost power like 5 times, but only for a minute.

 

[PanamaExpat]

I just took a look at the front page on foxnews.com they have a 62 image slide show of the damages. Sure am happy I don't live in NY or NJ. Wife has family in NYC and we can't get them on the phone. Not too surprising though considering.

 

[AllanD]

The big damage is to stuff like the PATH system.

If you aren't familiar with the PATH rail system is a
commuter subway from several points in New Jersey
to Manhattan with stations under the former WTC and
going as far north as columbus circle.

That electric train system has five feet of salt water in it

in the NY subway the salt water is over the platforms in several online pictures.

That's gonna be an ugly, ugly job...

 

[jrpdash9]

Someone had to clean out the subway

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[Snoranger]

I live right on the boarder of these 2 counties.

Jersey Central Power & Light reports 261,346 power outages in Monmouth County, or about 93 percent of its customers, and 208,093 power outages in Ocean County, or about 82 percent of its customers, as of 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Theres a dunkin donuts about 3 miles up the road thats running off generators and only serving coffee.

 

[upnsmoke]

The stupid sewer backed up into my basement Monday morning. Fortunately I noticed it around 9 AM and was able to clean up before day's end. I'll spare you all the details, but cleanup was a right shi#ty job. Our roof also started leaking toward the end of the whole mess. Otherwise, we pulled through intact. Remarkably, our power even stayed on. Me and my father noticed the Gunpowder River was quite high, and decided to take a couple pictures while we were there.

This is normally a passable road:

Had to play in the water a little:

This is a trail that normally is dry and can be safely walked on:

And a couple more:

I have a grandmother living in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ near the coast. She was well inland when the storm hit and is safe, but I'm not too optimistic about the state of her house. I'm going to go up to have a look at it and clean up what I can as soon as we can get in, but I have my doubts there will be much I can do.

 

[Snoranger]

Dont bother trying to get near Point pleasent for at least a week or more. The shore took a huge beating. I spent the day down in Atlantic Highlands fixing boat lifts to pull boats out of peoples houses.
Heres a video pf my drive to work.
http://s1098.photobucket.com/albums/g362/snoranger/?action=view&current=1351728711.mp4

 

[ryan]

the situation in NYC is probably worse than it looks

we bugged out yesterday and made it out thankfully

coned is saying there are 300,000 customes in manhattan without power, but what they're not saying is that each building is a customer. so for coned, our building with 200 apts and ~500 people is one customer

 

[jhammel85]

Ny got nailed. The pics coming out now are amazing.

Here in South NJ, we got hit pretty hard but overall, I think we got lucky compared to how it could of been. There are lots of down trees and flooding but nothing damaging around town.

Here are a few pics from The day of the hurricane from the DE River. Pics don't do it justice; it was extremely windy / rainy.

 

[brinker88]

 

[upnsmoke]

Off topic, but jhammel that is a great looking truck. Blue paint and chrome trim are a good combo when done right anyway, and that thing is seriously clean looking for a first gen.

Brinker, I should probably feel bad for laughing at that, but .

Dont bother trying to get near Point pleasent for at least a week or more. The shore took a huge beating. I spent the day down in Atlantic Highlands fixing boat lifts to pull boats out of peoples houses.
Heres a video pf my drive to work.
http://s1098.photobucket.com/albums/g362/snoranger/?action=view&current=1351728711.mp4

That looks messy snoranger. I'm told that people will be allowed back in some places temporarily to inspect their homes and assess damage. My grandmother seems to think she will get in some time this coming weekend. I have my doubts, though. Things still look pretty messy. NY definitely got it bad.

 

[robertc1024]

+1 on both comments.

 

[doorgunner]

Sad to say it.......NY/NJ/N.O. all belong to the Official Hurricane Club now.


Kinda like being combat vets........

 

[Snoranger]

74 hours.... We have power back!

 

[Snoranger]

Dont show that around the area ive been working all week. A lot of people lost everything they owned except the little bit they could load up before evacuating.

There are at least 30 homes down the road that no one can get to because the boats are parked on the street, the front yards, the back yards, and inside a few houses. We just got both the big forklifts dried up enough and running to start pulling the boats out of the way. The water was about 8 feet above road level.
Ill throw some more pics up when i get some time. Ive been working sun up to curfew (6 oclock curfew. No one in or out of the area. Nonresidents caught there have already been arrested. ) trying to get the equipment running so they can clean up.