East Coast and hurricane Sandy

[tboyer]

Hey guys on the East Coast so how was hurricane Sandy for you all?

[FatFuckPigMA]

It the Boston area it was a non event: some fallen branches on the street, a few down power lines, and we actually got more rain during Sandy's aftermath on Tuesday than during the storm itself. But my sister and her husband live on Fire Island and there home has was badly flooded. They were lucky, many houses were washed out to sea.

[AlwaysOpen]

In FtLauderdale we had Sandy pass to the east of us, but from the Wednesday before NYC got hit right thru the next Wednesday, we had steady winds of 20- 25 MPH here- with gusts Thurs and Fri of 50 MPH . The north end of Ft Lauderdale beac,h over topped the beach wall and put the main road along the beach, A1A , under 6 ft of sand and water daily from last Friday through this past Thursday, when the city was finally able to reopen a lane southbound for cars to get thru. Northbound is still buried deep- looks like after a blizzard in snow country-

[Hotload84]

In Philadelphia proper the storm was a non-event. About 3.5 inches of rain and some wind, a few trees down and a couple of very poorly maintained houses collapsed, but for most of us - just a storm. The suburbs were hit harder, particularly because of falling trees and the extended loss of electrical service, but by now almost all the service has been restored and the process of cleaning-up the fallen trees continues. There were some suburban houses damaged and/or destroyed by the trees, but relatively few. From our perspective, it was a blessing the storm didn't come-up the Delaware Bay, but rather it came across the Pine Barrens, so the City and other riparian communities were largely spared the terrible mess that coastal New Jersey and New York suffered.

Edited November 3, 2012 by Hotload84

[Pig Bottom]

In FtLauderdale we had Sandy pass to the east of us, but from the Wednesday before NYC got hit right thru the next Wednesday, we had steady winds of 20- 25 MPH here- with gusts Thurs and Fri of 50 MPH . The north end of Ft Lauderdale beac,h over topped the beach wall and put the main road along the beach, A1A , under 6 ft of sand and water daily from last Friday through this past Thursday, when the city was finally able to reopen a lane southbound for cars to get thru. Northbound is still buried deep- looks like after a blizzard in snow country-

I drove thru that area last night. From Las Olas all along Ft. Lauderdale beach north and didn't see any signs that anything happened from the storm. On TV they showed some flooding right afterwards, but Miami Beach had more flooding problems.

[Pig Bottom]

My father lives in NJ and he didn't have too much damage. He lost a few shingles on the roof, luckily he was able to fix it when the insurance company said they were too busy right now. I'm lucky he is healthy and active enough to climb a ladder (2 stories) in his 70s to do it. He also lost some of the siding but just a few pieces.

They shut off his power as a preventative measure the evening the storm was passing and turned it back on 5pm the next day. He was lucky, a block south of him had the power out as well as a half mile north of him.