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Riders of The Storm
scarmullet:
The wind is whipping the side of the house, and it has started to sleet. may not be going to work tomorrow if the roads get nasty.
wiggy:
Glad to hear that you guys are doing well so far! This must be one hell of a storm, because even we got hit pretty hard. According to the electric company's website, 161,000 people in the greater Cleveland area were without power yesterday morning :o It's down to ~90K now, but that hasn't helped us any so far.
Of course I make my claim of "hurricanes don't really affect us", then we lose power Monday afternoon and its still gone. 55° F in our house. Going to my mom's place, too damned cold for me...
mojoeskateco:
Yikes!
The GF and are have a trip to NYC planned next week. Supposed to arrive on Nov. 7.
Hpoefully our hotel is still there.
Hope everyone in the affected areas are OK.
DKBananas:
Well that was fun. No power since Monday night. Back to work after a failed attempt on Tuesday. Trees and poles litter the streets.
One person died in my town just a few blocks away, a tree fell into his house.
I worked at the CONED East river power station in lower Manhattan for 2 years. I am somewhat familiar with the transformers that blew in the switch yard. Two substations were lost, not a good thing at all. Everything inside the power plant is up on concrete pedestals in anticipation of flooding conditions. They are screwed if water got into the turbine enclosure.
On the bright side a coworker just unloaded his GB Cart collection on me. yay! Some hot titles too
Superchop:
Finally just got power. It went out monday night and came back on just a few hours ago. Besides the power outage me and my family didn't suffer much damage. House didn't flood like we thought it would even though the water outside the house rose up to almost a foot. We had a generator running so a lot of our more important electronics were powered (fridges, freezers just for the first night) then the next day we powered up a tv and satelite receiver to watch the news. Occasionally we would also charge our laptops but only for entertainment in the form of movies since the internet was down completely.
Cell phone towers were also affected and even today service isn't back. I can now receive texts normally but still unable to make calls from the cell phones. We luckily have 2 land line phones that aren't cordless so we were still able to contact family and friends to let them know we were safe.
Overall though, in comparison to a lot of other people we were well off...electricity and internet was all that we lost and we still had gas and hot water to eat and shower.
I'll put up some pictures later today and tomorrow.