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Tropical Weather

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I'm alive

Water wasn't my issue like with Irene... wind was an ass kicker

Jersey shore was destroyed... homes/towns under water... Battery Park (Wall Street area) of the city is supposed to be under as much as 12 ft of water...

Wind was relentless... hours and hours of rage.. then around 11pm it died down to nothing.. and rain was a drizzle.. I was able to go out and make some critical adjustments.. then an hour later came back with a vengeance... you almost couldn't tell it was raining because it was totally horizontal... pretty eerie when your entire house is shaking and making noise... found myself wondering if the windows were going to cave in...

Somehow I have a 9 ft brown couch in my front yard!?!?!?

Initial guess I lost about $1000.. which is $30K less than I lost in Irene... I win
 
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Outside of the coast.. I expect damage to be much less than Irene...

With Irene.. the rain was immense... so the ground was so over-saturated that when the wind hit, trees (especially the largest) had no chance.. and were uprooted... this caused addl damage in that the trees took out power lines, blocked roads and hit houses... couple that with flooding EVERYWHERE.. emergency crews couldn't get to problem sites..

We were completely locked in... there literally was no way out...
Last year, there was a 150ft monster tree nearby.. that was draped over power lines on BOTH sides of the road... the power lines were about 15 ft from the ground and were dragging down the utility poles...

I am so glad Sandy was so much different.. altho getting my ass beat by Irene helped me this time.. big time... lessons learned
Not like I had a lot of experience with hurricanes when I lived in Ohio
 
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OMG.. there should be F16s flying over my house
looking for the Russian bombers that just devastated my town

I decided to trek to the office to see what was there... power, etc...

Carpet bombing obviously took place last night.. unreal... massive trees down everywhere.. splintered... there's a thick 60 ft tree... horizontal... and stuck 50 ft up intwined with two other huge trees .. it's dangling over power lines and the road underneath...

Huge trees uprooted and completely blocking road ways... power lines 12 ft off the ground... at least I didn't see any flooding.. but dang...

My neighbors got their ass beat... I got lucky.. knew increasing my Sunday collection would work...

Couch is gone !!!!
 
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my daughter is here at home.. but normally takes the Path in Hoboken to work in the city... here's what she missed.. Hoboken Path Station pic

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Now that this thing is inland and seems to pretty much be stationary/spinning. Isn't there a chance NYC, NJ, etc get hit again once the jet stream pushes it back eastward towards the Atlantic?
 
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