Jim in Anchorage Posted October 30, 2012 Posted October 30, 2012 Was it Photoshopped too? Reports of a huge fire in Breezy Point destroying 80 - 100 homes. Man those Photoshop artists are keeping mighty busy. Looks bad. http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2012/10/30/firefighters-battle-blaze-involving-over-dozen-houses-in-flooded-nyc/
\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted October 30, 2012 Posted October 30, 2012 Flooding on FDR Drive in lower Manhattan: No Flooding Flooding
bbb Posted October 30, 2012 Posted October 30, 2012 Was it Photoshopped too? Reports of a huge fire in Breezy Point destroying 80 - 100 homes. Man those Photoshop artists are keeping mighty busy. I figured it was, but as of late last night, snopes still wasn't sure. They figured it out this afternoon...........About halfway down this page. This is a pretty good run down of the fakes vs. real ones: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/instasnopes-sorting-the-real-sandy-photos-from-the-fakes/264243/
The Poojer Posted October 30, 2012 Posted October 30, 2012 survived....the eye seems to have passed right over us, which i guess spared us the really heavy stuff...lost power sometime after midnight came back on about 430 this afternoon...hope everyone else made it through with relative safety
DC Tom Posted October 30, 2012 Posted October 30, 2012 Did our self-professed "survivialist" survive?
boyst Posted October 30, 2012 Posted October 30, 2012 Saw many utility trucks headed North in just 7 miles headed South on I85 I stopped counting after tallying 20.
rockpile Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 We were lucky. Got a few inches of water in part of the basement, only because the float got blocked that turns on the pump. A very large branch pulled my cable, phone, and power lines off the house, but did not break the connection. Waiting for power company to move branches, and hook up wires safely. rochester ny
boyst Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 We were lucky. Got a few inches of water in part of the basement, only because the float got blocked that turns on the pump. A very large branch pulled my cable, phone, and power lines off the house, but did not break the connection. Waiting for power company to move branches, and hook up wires safely. rochester ny Is babyrock away at school? Can't remember, but hope everyone is safe..just hard to imagine WNY being affected by a hurricane.
bowery4 Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 water in basement again But if thats the extent of it Ill consider myself lucky. others have it a lot worse No wind damage? Best to all of you down in NYC! and all long the coast, I have a storage space in Jersey city, really, really hoping it stayed dry.
Captain Hindsight Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 No wind damage? Best to all of you down in NYC! and all long the coast, I have a storage space in Jersey city, really, really hoping it stayed dry. Are you a betting man?
truth on hold Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 No wind damage? Best to all of you down in NYC! and all long the coast, I have a storage space in Jersey city, really, really hoping it stayed dry. No wind 2nd year in a row. Basement flooded 2nd year in a row. Seems like the biggest problem for the whole city is the Hudson & East Rivers overflowing their banks. Gov Cuomo had a good line when commenting how they need to come up with a better system: "We're having a 100 year flood every year now." Subway video from MTA
bowery4 Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 No wind 2nd year in a row. Basement flooded 2nd year in a row. Seems like the biggest problem for the whole city is the Hudson & East Rivers overflowing their banks. Gov Cuomo had a good line when commenting how they need to come up with a better system: "We're having a 100 year flood every year now." Subway video from MTA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xkdv0H31d8&feature=share If they wall it off there will be people outside the wall getting flooded that weren't before. It has been a problem here in Bangkok (whose flood last year IMO was a political man made disaster) and people eventually find ways to sabotage it (which is why I had to leave for a month last year until it was all finally worked out to drain it away). Anyway sounds like you were lucky. Keep safe, clean up takes time and best of luck.
Guffalo Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 I am on generator power, lost the den, had 7 feet in my lower level, still trying to get some help figuring out how to right an oil tank. Lost a boston whaler with its trailer for a bit, a neighbor clued me in and I found iit a block away. The boat that was tied to the dock was hung up on one of the posts. We finally waded in during the second high tide and freed it. GOing in now to drain more and rip oyt flooring and walls in the den
Phlegm Alley Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 Still without power in Philly. I live right in the city in a neighborhood called Northern Liberties, which is slightly north of Old City and right on the water. The power went out at 7pm on Monday night. PECO says that we have to call back this afternoon just to get an estimate on what time it may come back on. Because we live on a small, tertiary road and only a dozen or so homes have been affected, we have been warned that it could be a few more days until we finally get it back on. This pales in comparison to the Queens blackout of 2006, where I was without power for 10 days. It ran concurrently to a heat wave, which made living conditions unbearable.
plenzmd1 Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 I am on generator power, lost the den, had 7 feet in my lower level, still trying to get some help figuring out how to right an oil tank. Lost a boston whaler with its trailer for a bit, a neighbor clued me in and I found iit a block away. The boat that was tied to the dock was hung up on one of the posts. We finally waded in during the second high tide and freed it. GOing in now to drain more and rip oyt flooring and walls in the den Sounds rogh Guff..good luck in the coming days. 7 feet sounds like a ton of water, glad to hear you are safe though
KD in CA Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 Wow, sorry to hear that Guff. No power for me either, but no damage and our generator is working great. House is pretty much fully functioning.
\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 Was it Photoshopped too? Reports of a huge fire in Breezy Point destroying 80 - 100 homes. Man those Photoshop artists are keeping mighty busy. Here are photos: Before - Note the house with the white roof at the bottom center After - same house with white roof at lower left
Mr. ChumChums Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 Have a personal update on the Frankenstorm. I'm currently in a cafe at an Equinox gym in Rockefeller Center (never been more glad to have an Equinox membership), charging my computer and phone. My apartment building is without power or water, and likely won't have either for a few more days. The building across the street has power, as well as pretty much any other building in Manhattan going uptown from where we are. We had the unfortunate luck of being the last building on our power grid . Right now, we need to walk up 30 flights of stairs to get up to our room. My dog hasn't pooped in days because he's stubborn - thankfully, he's peed in the kitchen. We can't walk him down the stairs (or up) because he has a torn ACL, and we can't carry him because he's too big. Thankfully, that's the biggest of my problems. I've been one of lucky ones. There's still plenty of folks that I know that have been evac'd from their apartments, and currently don't have a place to stay, so our prayers go out to them!
Chef Jim Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 (edited) I'm with Tom, I'm realy interested to hear from our so called survivalist. I think he probably OD'd on bong hits. Have a personal update on the Frankenstorm. I'm currently in a cafe at an Equinox gym in Rockefeller Center (never been more glad to have an Equinox membership), charging my computer and phone. My apartment building is without power or water, and likely won't have either for a few more days. The building across the street has power, as well as pretty much any other building in Manhattan going uptown from where we are. We had the unfortunate luck of being the last building on our power grid . Right now, we need to walk up 30 flights of stairs to get up to our room. My dog hasn't pooped in days because he's stubborn - thankfully, he's peed in the kitchen. We can't walk him down the stairs (or up) because he has a torn ACL, and we can't carry him because he's too big. Thankfully, that's the biggest of my problems. I've been one of lucky ones. There's still plenty of folks that I know that have been evac'd from their apartments, and currently don't have a place to stay, so our prayers go out to them! That's why cats are better they poop in a box. But seriously I feel for ou dog. Poor guy. Edited October 31, 2012 by Chef Jim
SDS Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 I'm with Tom, I'm realy enterested to hear from our so called survivalist. I think he probably OD'd on bong hits. Who is that again?
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