Hurricane Predictions

Dair wrote: Good luck everyone out east. I hope Repoman is right and this turns out smaller than expected.

Once again, living on the "weather border" between WV and DC has spared my house from the bulk of the nastiness. An hour both west and south of here are getting serious snow; closer south and east (in VA; MD is altogether another matter) are getting rain at 1.5"/hour with nasty winds.

Here, though, I've got a slightly above-average-but-very-steady cold rain with a bit of a blow but nothing too worrying. This would be almost entirely a non-event for me were it not for a damned leak in my roof dripping steadily into my master bedroom closet. Couldn't get my guy out 2 weeks ago to fix it and then it proved impossible once the forecasts started rolling in.

The other plus for me, I suspect, is the massive data hotel a half-mile up the street from me. Ever since they built that thing, my development seems to have become mostly impervious to power outtages even when most of the rest of eastern half of the county go dark. I'm guessing that they invested in improving/hardening the chunk of the grid they're on and I'm getting the side benefit as, in the last 3 big weather "events", you could basically trace a straight line of lights from our immediate neighborhood through the big Verizon HQ facility to this data hotel complex. Perhaps I've just been lucky--either way, it's been a relief... (That said, I think I'm going to do a full power-down of all my hardware before I crash tonight; I've got most everything hooked to line conditioning UPSs but an ounce of prevention and all that jazz...)

I'll have to call my family in Jersey though; they look like they got creamed....

Anybody know if Jay is OK? He's in Brooklyn I think.

Just fine Andy, thanks for the concern! I actually moved to Queens a year ago and it's turning out to be one of the best moves I could have made. We had some pretty serious wind and some trees are down but the damage around here is minimal. My old neigborhood in Brooklyn is fucked. So's most of the city for that matter. Pretty crazy stuff. Going to assess the damage at the bars in a minute so I'm a bit nervous, but most importantly my family's safe.

We got off really easy in the Pittsburgh area. It was cold, windy and rainy for sure, but not much in the way of power outages, flooding or downed branches. And all of that snow went down in West Virginia.

Glad to see that everyone on the east coast have escaped injury and damage - keep safe for a few more days.

Southernman wrote: Glad to see that everyone on the east coast have escaped injury and damage - keep safe for a few more days.

Thanks!

Lost the awning from my new restaurant. Blew right down the fucking street. Could've been a lot worse though; lots of businesses are underwater, especially on the Lower East Side. It's gonna set me back a few grand, but what are you gonna do. I'm working tonight; I'll probably be putting a few back in the awnings memory.

A friend of ours in Jersey had a tree smash into her 5 year olds bedroom. The little guy was in his folks bed because he was terrified of the storm. Bananas.

My biggest worry was the trampoline in our backyard. I hammered in some stakes into the trampoline on Sunday. When I came out on Tuesday all the stakes had been lifted out of the ground and the trampoline had slide about a 1 foot but it had stayed in the yard. Luckily, it didn't end up down the street in a neighbors yard like this guy.

On SOuth Shore of Long Island; Lin and I dodged any flooding. The main issues on the Island right now are the massive power outages and downed trees and power lines. Thankfully we were smart enough to get cash and gas up before this thing. Sloowly power is coming back to main streets/street lights etc.

I'm glad I have acces to my union's computer.