Keep posting, Guys. Just a little note tells us you are okay. This real strange. You watch the National News and it is doom and gloom, local news and a quiet, calm day. Best to all.
The worst seems to be over. The GR is none the worse for wear. Had a few building get toppled and the arbor blew over, but the power stayed on through the whole thing and it seems to be just a matter of drying out. Hesperus survived…
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Mancos survived…somewhat…
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Delores had the usual…the coal tipple blew over…
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The arbor…
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Kept an eye on all this during the storm, but nothing looked to be in any danger.
It looks like a little cleanup and it will be good as new. I hope some of the others did as well!
Like Ken, I left out all my buildings. Still raining, but looking good so far.
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Really just the start of the normal fall leaves… According to my computer UPS, we lost power 5 times for 45 seconds. The street next to ours lost it for a few hours, or more. Hard to tell if it is still out when it’s light out. 
Schools closed yesterday and today as well as all levels of government.
We fared well. Except for a twenty min. outage last night. Winds seemed to stay high up for the most part with an occasional ground level gust. Glad to see that the others in the path who have logged in seemed to not have too bad of a time from if.
OK the storm has passed the coastline, how are the more inland guys doing? Haven’t heard from Mik Shawn or Bob
For us Left Coast guys trying to get an idea of how wide the path of this storm is, local news this AM put up a ‘what if’ graphic showing Sandy over the west coast, the storm would have effects from Portland Oregon to Phoenix Arizona.
We had strong winds and heavy rain from about 9am yesterday, until about 10pm last night. Two small trees are broken and will need to come down, but other than that just a crapload of branches and leaves.
We didnt even lose power (which is rare in a storm), but I had the scanner on all day and it seems that we were one of the few neighborhoods that didnt. Lots of trees down on roads, and two exits off 495 were closed for down wires.
Vic, we’ve had some wind, and a lot of soggy. A couple thundersqualls that spit icy crap… and, “whatevah” The power never flickered. a non-event here
Victor Smith said:
OK the storm has passed the coastline, how are the more inland guys doing? Haven't heard from Mik Shawn or BobFor us Left Coast guys trying to get an idea of how wide the path of this storm is, local news this AM put up a ‘what if’ graphic showing Sandy over the west coast, the storm would have effects from Portland Oregon to Phoenix Arizona.
Well, before it even reached shore it had covered all of VA, all of WV, all of NC, all of PA out to the Great Lakes and all of New England. So that “what if” graphic was probably pretty damn close…
Shawn, Jon and Mik are more than likely still without power, and probably will be for a few days. Anybody close to the coast is probably without power and had some flooding. Anybody near creeks and rivers probably experienced flooding as well, it seems the water has caused more problems then the wind, but that’s just my opinion from news reports.
Is anybody else watching the morning news reports of “a foot of sand in the streets” and “days to clean up” and thinking Gulf Coast folks must be looking at each other and saying “What a bunch of whiny a-- crybabies”?
Nope…
No, because the real problems are the amount of collapsed houses, the 60+ house fire that FDNY couldnt get to, the transformer explosions, everything from 28th Street down without power, MTA tunnels flooded, etc. Anyone thinking NYC is a bunch of crybabies is watching the wrong news channel.
Bob McCown said:Guess what... they ain't covering much of that. A little bit of building damage, Sand, The Chris Christie/mayor of Atlantic City squabble, more sand someplace else. the hanging crane, And the guy in downtown Manhattan blathering about chunks of plywood and debris in the streets, and people "coming out and wondering where their cars are"Interspersed with the local weather guy saying it's raining and the winds are meh
No, because the real problems are the amount of collapsed houses, the 60+ house fire that FDNY couldnt get to, the transformer explosions, everything from 28th Street down without power, MTA tunnels flooded, etc. Anyone thinking NYC is a bunch of crybabies is watching the wrong news channel.
But then we only get NBC and Fox, and Fox is running the Price is Right
And to judge by NBC, Sandy was still no Katrina
If you have the time, start here at Google news http://news.google.com/ For example, here’s a picture of the aftermath of the Breezy Point fire, taken a couple of hours ago.
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We are alive no power could be days or longer before we get it back. Its a mess from the jersey shore to nyc and the higher elevations. I Had 70 mph winds for hours. 12 trains from the transit yard washed onto the nj turnpike. At least 88 houses washed away. 80% of nj with no power. What made this so bad was it covered a hudge area and effected
The most populated area of the country. Will keep every posted but internet and cell is off and on .
Shawn said:Glad to hear your alive and well, Shawn, keep those kids safe. Aren't you happy now you bought that generator......;)
We are alive no power could be days or longer before we get it back. Its a mess from the jersey shore to nyc and the higher elevations. I Had 70 mph winds for hours. 12 trains from the transit yard washed onto the nj turnpike. At least 88 houses washed away. 80% of nj with no power. What made this so bad was it covered a hudge area and effected The most populated area of the country. Will keep every posted but internet and cell is off and on .
Jon Radder ad family are okay. Lost power and internet, but just little rain and no flooding. He’ll get online when he can.
Jan’s sister and famiy okay in Paterson, NJ okay, but without power and property at LBI is unknown at this time. Niece and family with 9 month old twins okay in Rumson, NJ near shore, they are okay but also without power.
Mik go to the facebook page called nj severe weather you will see some amazing shots ofvthe destruction. Boardwalks completly gone houses gone bridges etc…
Wow Bob that’s pretty bad. I think this image gives a good idea how bad the flooding is in NYC, that’s water pouring into a subway station thru the elevator shaft. 
This is going to come out as the the biggest WTH story of the storm, the loss of the SS Bounty
The more I read about this the more in disbelief i am that these guys actually decidedly and knowingly set sail into the storm of the century thinking there 50 year old ship, which apparently was always under some kind of repair, could beat this fast moving storm! I’m actually surprised only two died, the Bounty was based on a boat that historically at its fastest could only manage about 12 knots or 15 mph at most! Instead of moving the boat upriver as far as possible to avoid the storm surge, they set a course S trying to reach their homeport of St Petersburg in FL, this put them along the western edge of this beast. Did they think they could outrun it? Man I know nothing about boats and navigation but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see they would end up in the very worst part of the storm. Was it just hubris on the part of the captain and crew? Because they all boarded this boat knowing the intended course. Man I just don’t get it.
Thanks Ric for the call and updating folks here. Compared to what I am hearing about NYC and NJ, we got nothing. Lots of debris around; trees down here and there, but nothing like last Octobers snow storm. I took a vacation day from job #1 so I could take a slow ride in. I’m now at job #2. I needed to take several detours around downed trees, but I got here.
We got no where near the predicted rain. I usually get water in my garage from a summer thunderstorm, and so far it is still dry. The generator is running keeping the fish alive and the food frozen. I don’t have a transfer switch and won’t do the cheater cord thing so there are extension cords all over the house. I haven’t tied in the furnace yet, but can. We may sleep in the RV if it gets too cold for the fireplaces to keep up.
I haven’t heard much yet about the CT shoreline since all my news since 10 PM last night has come from NYC radio and they are mostly talking about NY and NJ. I do know the high-tide storm surge last night was a record setting event. There will likely be lots of damage in CT too.
So far everyone I know is safe. All I need is power and I’ll be back to normal. Thanks for your concern.