Best wishes to our East Coasters

[Calidore]

And the ones who aren't ours as well. Hope you come through the storm okay.

[E.A Rumfield]

It's going to be nothing. The media likes to hype this kind of thing up. People are just going to be stuck in their house for a day maybe two. Worse thing maybe a little atrophy. Just cuddle up next to your lady or your man or get high, read a book, take a nap? It is kind of fun I think. Remember how excited you would get as a kid anytime it would storm?

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Though I am loathe to, I agree with Rumfield (even about enjoying storms--they're thrilling in an oddly relaxing sort of way). I doubt much happens--media loves the hype. Hope everyone is okay, all the same.

[E.A Rumfield]

Though I am loathe to, I agree with Rumfield (even about enjoying storms--they're thrilling in an oddly relaxing sort of way). I doubt much happens--media loves the hype. Hope everyone is okay, all the same.

Gotta love those cheap shots.

[OrphanPip]

Storms are less fun when they cause property damage.

[cacian]

It's going to be nothing. The media likes to hype this kind of thing up. People are just going to be stuck in their house for a day maybe two. Worse thing maybe a little atrophy. Just cuddle up next to your lady or your man or get high, read a book, take a nap? It is kind of fun I think. Remember how excited you would get as a kid anytime it would storm?


Really? Was that the epitome of life back then?
That would scared the life out of me.
I once experience earthquake and that I never forget.
I would not want a storm either.

[qimissung]

Well, it's a little more than a storm (which I love too, even now), it's a hurricane. I know the media love hype, but this is coming ashore now and it looks to be about as fierce as promised. It won't be so funny if someone dies.

Good luck to our east coast friends! That's a shout out to Virgil and pussnboots. I'm not actually sure who else on lit-net lives out that way.

[E.A Rumfield]

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Really? Was that the epitome of life back then?
That would scared the life out of me.
I once experience earthquake and that I never forget.
I would not want a storm either.

Storms are an adventures, kids love adventures. When I was a young boy I was in Florida (Disney World) for vacation and we got hit by a hurricane when we were down there. It was cool to watch the wind carrying leaves and what not.

It's actually getting pretty windy but we live in big strong houses its not like we gotta tough it out in the woods. People need to toughen up.

[Calidore]

Here in Chicago, the outer line of the clouds has been passing overhead east-to-west since late this morning. Now we have blue sky to the far west, then a very clean arc of solid cloud begins. That's roughly a thousand miles from the center of this thing, which was still about 200 miles out to sea at the time the cloud line passed over. It's also pretty windy, and will become even more so starting tonight.

We'll have have a lakefront flood warning for later tonight through Wednesday afternoon; normal wave height on a windy day may be 4-6 feet, but current expectations are for 18-23 foot waves. Off Lake Michigan, that's unbelievable. I won't be a bit surprised if Lake Shore Drive is shut down.

[Volya]

It's going to be nothing. The media likes to hype this kind of thing up. People are just going to be stuck in their house for a day maybe two. Worse thing maybe a little atrophy. Just cuddle up next to your lady or your man or get high, read a book, take a nap? It is kind of fun I think. Remember how excited you would get as a kid anytime it would storm?

I would hope if you're in the path of the storm, you're at least taking a few precautions to safeguard against you/your home getting injured/damaged.

[BienvenuJDC]

I'm sitting in the middle of the storm right now...it's not really THAT bad. There's not to many precautions one can take except making sure that anything loose is battened down. I'll let you know how things turn out here.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Gotta love those cheap shots.

I figured you would.

[Buh4Bee]

Yeah, we just started to get some high winds and some rain. But all day it was just cloudy, to partly-cloudy. It was as if nothing was going to happen, and then the winds started to pick up. It's pretty blustery out there, but nothing more than a windy night. However, it just started and the anticipation is to expect that it will be very bad. School has been cancelled for us tomorrow.

[OrphanPip]

The flooding looks pretty bad in nyc and around Jersey.

[qimissung]

Sandy has been downgraded to a storm-hurricanes often lose power once they hit land-but it has still caused at least nine deaths so far.

Hunker down and take care, Bienvenu.

[kittypaws]

Gotta love those cheap shots.

There are over 61 people dead from this storm and that does not count the man in NY who was found under a fallen tree. THIS storm is nothing to lauf about and i am in the midst of it.

You try to walk your dog in 55 mile an hour sustained winds with cold rain stinging your face and the winds bobbling you around like a top...then when you reach the safety of your home have to strip down to skin to relieve yourself of the wet clothes. it's scary out there, the trees branches dipping and wrenching back in forth in a wind that has no self conscience.

Have some consideration ~ please.

kittypaws

[qimissung]

Eeek, kittypaws. Do you have a garage (for the dog, should he need to relieve himself in the next little while :))Most of the people who have died seem to have died from falling tree limbs. Please consider staying inside!

Anywho. our thoughts are with you.

[Buh4Bee]

Here is a link to some post-Sandy pictures of the devastation:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/10/most-unbelievable-real-pictures-sandys-destruction/58492/

[kittypaws]

Eeek, kittypaws. Do you have a garage (for the dog, should he need to relieve himself in the next little while :))Most of the people who have died seem to have died from falling tree limbs. Please consider staying inside!

Anywho. our thoughts are with you.

thank you qimissung for your thoughts and good suggestion.
It was scary but it could have been a lot worse as it was for many.

I was one of the lucky ones ~

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Looks like the hype was warranted this time.

[Buh4Bee]

I think there were so few deaths, because they did a very good job evacuating people- despite all the flooding and high winds causing down trees, grave levels of property damage and power outages.

NYC Report:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50134194n

Thinking of all you NYers.

NJ, Delaware and DC:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50134192n

[qimissung]

There were 33 to 47 deaths; that's a fair sized number. It could have been worse. Most of them seemed to be caused by falling trees and downed power lines.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Our government actually did a good job with this, it seems. You know they did when Governor Christie heaped a bunch of praise on Obama this morning for how helpful and efficient he was.

[qimissung]

:smilielol5: Still haven't heard from Virgil and Pussnboots, though.

[stlukesguild]

Looks like you were far off the mark this time MM. I'm in Cleveland... 500 miles west of the Jersey shore... and I've had no power since Monday night. 90 mile per hour gusts took out the electricity for something like 350,000 homes in the county... followed by 35 degree weather, torrential rain, and flooding. I'm only able to get on line at a Panera Bread that has wifi. The days were so overcast that even reading was a real challenge. After two nights without heat we're spending the night with the mother-in-law. The house is currently around 40-degrees. My birthday tomorrow and the electric company... First Energy... says they don't expect to have us up an running 'til midnight Monday. Of course the fact that they sent half of their line staff to New York and New Jersey before the storm hit isn't helping matters much. These morons are the same ones who caused the huge power outage some years back that resulted in 50 million without power. They finally called for backup yesterday... after we'd been without power for two days.

[Sancho]

I'm thinking I'm going to steer clear of the used-car market for a while.

http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae197/mollyandbruno/image-1.jpg

Bump. Whoops, stepped on ya, Luke.


Looks like you were far off the mark this time MM. I'm in Cleveland... 500 miles west of the Jersey shore... and I've had no power since Monday night. 90 mile per hour gusts took out the electricity for something like 350,000 homes in the county... followed by 35 degree weather, torrential rain, and flooding. I'm only able to get on line at a Panera Bread that has wifi. The days were so overcast that even reading was a real challenge. After two nights without heat we're spending the night with the mother-in-law. The house is currently around 40-degrees. My birthday tomorrow and the electric company... First Energy... says they don't expect to have us up an running 'til midnight Monday. Of course the fact that they sent half of their line staff to New York and New Jersey before the storm hit isn't helping matters much. These morons are the same ones who caused the huge power outage some years back that resulted in 50 million without power. They finally called for backup yesterday... after we'd been without power for two days.

[OrphanPip]

We were far enough north of new York here in Montreal that we only got a few power outages, the storm hit Southern Ontario harder, but there was only one death in Canada.

[Buh4Bee]

Yes, St. Luke's I am sorry that Chicago was not represented. I have been meaning to post something about you guys! In our area though, they did do a good job evacuating people. The death toll is very low and the property damage is skyrocketing.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Looks like you were far off the mark this time MM. I'm in Cleveland... 500 miles west of the Jersey shore... and I've had no power since Monday night. 90 mile per hour gusts took out the electricity for something like 350,000 homes in the county... followed by 35 degree weather, torrential rain, and flooding. I'm only able to get on line at a Panera Bread that has wifi. The days were so overcast that even reading was a real challenge. After two nights without heat we're spending the night with the mother-in-law. The house is currently around 40-degrees. My birthday tomorrow and the electric company... First Energy... says they don't expect to have us up an running 'til midnight Monday. Of course the fact that they sent half of their line staff to New York and New Jersey before the storm hit isn't helping matters much. These morons are the same ones who caused the huge power outage some years back that resulted in 50 million without power. They finally called for backup yesterday... after we'd been without power for two days.

Well. The government and everyone else can only do so much. And two days isn't that bad, really. During the big ice storm here a couple years ago, there were a bunch of people without power for a couple weeks. We were out for five days. I kind of feel sorry for the workers of these electric companies who work their asses off around the clock and then get **** from the people they're trying to help. Not that you're one of these people, stlukes (I seriously doubt you are), it's just ****ty how some people get treated.

[Calidore]

Yes, St. Luke's I am sorry that Chicago was not represented.

?! I'm not.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

What's the implication here concerning Chicago?