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Kali Compton
October 29th, 2012 @ 12:53PM
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2009-05-30
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SLC, UT
Posts: 255
| 90 mph and they call it a national disaster? Sissies! Utah gets 90+ mph wind speeds regularly come spring and fall. Aside from an occasional semi-truck tipped over it's business as usual. |
Smokin Joe
Marine
October 29th, 2012 @ 4:11PM
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2006-06-10
Location:
The Land of Chocolate
Posts: 2254
| Do those Utah winds come with 8-16' storm surges?
Things started flooding fairly early on, and the main part of the storm is basically just starting to hit.
Also, seasonal 90 mph winds? Yikes, that seems crazy. |
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Kali Compton
October 29th, 2012 @ 5:31PM
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2009-05-30
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SLC, UT
Posts: 255
| Yep. Dead serious. Minus the waves (Salt Lake isn't much for wave making) we get 90+ regularly. I work for the division of air quality here and every spring we have some of our equipment toppled or busted because of the stupid winds.
If you're driving on an interstate you have to be ready to correct for wind, especially when coming out from under the bridges. Riding a motorcycle is so suicidal it's completely out of question.
A few years back there was a freight train (no joke) that was tipped over here. |
Slev
Marine
October 30th, 2012 @ 6:50AM
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2003-03-26
Location:
Seattle
Posts: 471
| I'm in baltimore, it wasn't that bad here. At least I got yesterday and today off |
Smokin Joe
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October 30th, 2012 @ 9:20AM
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| Where I live in Brooklyn was mostly wind damaged - hilariously so. There's one major tree down (snapped limbs, it's a big sucker) and I swear there's a line of people waiting to take a picture of it so they can post it to twitter/instagram/facebook. That tree is gonna be famous!
But damn, Jersey got shallacked, downtown Manhattan/Battery Park got battered and my dad's right now trying to plan a route to help some family on Staten Island (closed off from anyone at the moment).
It got bad, preeeeetty bad, but hopefully people prepared. There was ample time and plenty of warnings. |
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Kali Compton
October 30th, 2012 @ 10:01PM
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2009-05-30
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SLC, UT
Posts: 255
| That's Karma for the Jersey Shore!
Too early? |
Frimzy
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November 1st, 2012 @ 4:52AM
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| I live a few blocks from south beach in staten island and the place is gutted. Houses are destroyed, debris everywhere. We just got power 2 hours ago since monday. We had 17 people die on the island so far and there is sand in peoples homes. We have roof damage and minor flood damage and we are 800 m from ocean. NY has never seen such weather before, it just does not happen here and yet it did. Tons of people are homeless and even more without power. I am gonna volunteer to help clean up but we need all the help we can get.
Vid at end is a few blocks from my house
http://tinyurl.com/bz9njk9
Edit: Upped the number of victims to 17.
EDITED: 2012-11-01 11:43:20 |
BiVRiP
General
November 1st, 2012 @ 4:22PM
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2003-05-11
Location:
Canada
Posts: 1890
| That's crazy Frimzy. I hope your family and friends haven't been too adversely affected. |
Smokin Joe
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November 2nd, 2012 @ 2:50PM
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| I have relatives north of Midland, right off of Father Capodanno Blvd and I went yesterday to help my dad cleanup and board up holes at their place. It's nothing I've ever seen before.
I had to rent a car for the day to get out there and it took like 7 car rental places before I found anything. Trying to gas it back up was impossible so I returned it with 1 gallon less. The stories I'm hearing from friends in Jersey and Long Island are terrible. People are losing patience, especially with no heat/power and the weather getting colder. Burst pipes are going to make a terrible situation worse.
I'm glad you're all right Frimzy. I hope you are one of the lucky few that still had gas/water at least until now. You getting power makes me optimistic about my relatives getting it back as well. There's only so much diesel between the generator my dad's van (and he needs to get back to New England to get more supplies). |
Frimzy
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November 2nd, 2012 @ 3:40PM
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| Smoking Joe, Midland was hit hard. I won't be able to take my walk there for quite some time. There is heavy police presence there to ward off looters. And sand is everywhere, many many blocks inland where there shouldn't be any sand. I saw cars on top of each other around that area so I am afraid if you had any cars, they would be a total loss. And I am not even talking about the houses.
The good news I read is that deductibles are being waived for us and following that FEMA should be able to get us going again. But for our home we'll just pay for repairs out of our own pocket, other people need it more.
Ok so our street is finally clear of downed trees and there is now a support center giving out food and water at the bowling alley around the corner. There are still a lot of homes without power and I almost walked into a downed wire that was dangling from above. There were no lights so I just did not see it at 6PM when it gets dark here.
The death toll is up to 20 and bloomberg decided not to hold the marathon, I believe, for the first time in its history. FEMA has tables outside where people can make phone calls and charge their mobile phones.
There are crews from all over the country, Maryland, Virginia and Obama got us some crews airlifted from as far away as California and Texas. What we really need are generators and gas because this is an island and it is very hard to find things.
The gas station on the corner had a mile-long wait line of cars and a long line of people holding gas gannisters for their generators. Now it is empty and darkened. They can't get more gas to it since the pumps for the tankers are out of power. The ironic thing is that the out-of-state crews came on their own trucks but when they got here, there is no gas to power them.
It's pretty nutty over here there is a lot of international media here but when their news stories are over they get the hell back to Manhattan and we are still stuck with the damage and the debris. Situation here is pretty sad and the last thing on anyone's mind is the election. At the point we just don't care who wins as long as we get the help we need. And once again, I consider the fact that our house is still standing to be pretty lucky.
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Smokin Joe
Marine
November 2nd, 2012 @ 5:23PM
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2006-06-10
Location:
The Land of Chocolate
Posts: 2254
| Holy hell. Yeah, I heard about houses just being swept off their foundation there. I ended up leaving pretty late and hear what you're saying about no lights at night, I can't imagine what a night with no heat or lights must feel like. You may have a place to stay that's warm, but how do you just leave all your stuff? Even with police riding everywhere with their lights on.
I'm also relieved that the marathon isn't going to be held. There's no way I could be convinced that it wouldn't affect the rescue efforts. Are there seriously things not being used right now?? Give them to Staten Island.
And yeah, the gas situation is absolutely crazy - my experience was just driving around Brooklyn. My sister is coming back from out of the state and I told her to gas up before leaving, you can't find it anywhere near NYC/LI.
Again, I'm glad you made out OK. If you do get a chance to volunteer, please be careful. |
Wootah
non-leet
November 3rd, 2012 @ 9:08AM
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2003-05-16
Location:
Utah
Posts: 1467
| Thanks for the Update Frimzy. The videos and news coming out are just insane. Such an outrageous storm. Usually before big storms, people run to the supermarkets and buy out all the food, but I don't recall any reporting of that happening.
Did that happen in your area? did people not think the storm would be that bad that far inland? |
Frimzy
Marine
November 3rd, 2012 @ 11:21AM
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2005-11-29
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| Not that much because no one expected large damage, it never happened like this before... |
