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Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: pace on October 29, 2012, 11:43:32 AM
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Just wishing everyone on the east coast a safe and content next couple of days...
We had our first tidal surge a few hours ago. I'll try to get some pictures up, very surreal.
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Best wishes to everyone out there.
Hold on tight!
My son lives in Perryville, MD - he has gone over to his sisters house in North East, MD to some what higher ground. His house in Perryville is a stones throw from Chesapeake Bay.
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Yes; hoping everyone in the northeast stays dry, warm, and safe.
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been watching this on the news. it really looks pretty horrendous. Hope everyone stays safe.
Graeme
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i was lucky- i moved from norwalk ct yesterday. the movers called sunday night to ask if they could come early monday- i said of course
so i get in my car to start driving to beacon falls- i have my ipod on shuffle. the VERY first song that comes up is bird song- so? remember the verse- i'll show you--STORM AND RAIN- no coincindences
they finished unloading just as they banned truck traffic off the highways.
good news? never lost power-am on the third floor!
bad news- norwalk went dark- i know the area down by the sound must have gotten pummeled.
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No coincidence at all. The lyrics are snow & rain. Now if it had played Looks Like Rain ....! hehehehe. Glad to know you are o.k.
Bill, tgo
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Glad you got out OK Jeff.
Jon
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I'm still stuck in California because of the storm. They moved my group to San Mateo from SF, not really happy about that but I'd rather be here than home in CT.
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I never lost power at my house, so lucky, considering people just a stones throw from me lost their homes. There's still probably a dozen spots in town that have trees or limbs on primary lines. We're putting together lights & generators so we can go out w/ CL&P tonight..... It was nerve-racking going out last night to clear roads during high tide, and today was almost impossible to do cleanup because all the idiots flocked down here to check out the carnage....
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Supposed to be without power here in Manhattan until the weekend. But I have power at my studio, so I guess I'll just have to hole up and play bass for the next few days.
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Mike; sorry to hear that folks in your community lost their homes.
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Thanks Dave. It's frustrating when you consider that so many people on the shoreline and the entire northeast for that matter, just got their homes back in order after hurricane Irene last year... I don't know what the tally is yet, but our building inspector and fire marshal have to make some tough decisions.
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My brother in law is a paramedic on Long Island and he hasn't been home in two days. We talked to him for a bit tonight. FEMA kept him from answering some calls, including one to evacuate a nursing home. Then the dispatcher asked him if he had a gun! Yikes. He was also one of the first people onsite at 9/11. Crazy life.
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my first access to internet since we lost power monday around 6pm. about 8 large trees down on my property (half from neighbors, and half tangled in power lines - all but one across my long driveway). luckily our landscaper rushed over w/ 4 guys and chainsaws and cleared a path in our driveway. can't imagine getting power for at least 2wks (power lines down in 3 spots in my driveway alone). wife and kids packing up and heading to warmer/friends house while i sit at my first day back at work (she's not happy). everybody is healthy... and music equipment is safe. gig saturday wil be rough with no practice time.
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Hopefully Danno, Kilowatt, Barry, Todd Harris, and all the other club members close to the storm's center will check in safe. Power and Internet aside, cellular service has been compromised in a lot of areas as well.
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My neice moved out to manhatten from new Zealand the week after I got back from my states trip. We still haven't been able to reach her. Hopefully just a problem gettig onto the net.
graeme
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hey guys jimy here in brooklyn.
i didnt lose power, didnt flood, where i live was beyond the zone A evacuation zone( although greenpoint which is just a couple of blocks away had to if you were by the water).... lower manhattan south of 25th street is messed up. no power.
subways are shut down, bridges are open, tunnels going to NJ are not. New Jersey got hit BIG.
i consider myself VERY VERY lucky, and my hearts go out to those along the jersey shore and long island, their communities are devastated right now.
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gee bill
i always thought it was storm and rain
which i think is a better lyric-lol
i'll have to give it a good listen the next time it comes up on the ipod.
it snowed in west va :-)
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Yeah, hopefully everyone's okay...seems so weird to think of NYC being hit with NATURAL disaster; seems beyond that somehow, like it's too big...welcome to global warming storm fun! oh well, just had a nice earthquake near me so the fun is everywhere...Tony
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Good to hear from those of you who've checked in; and hoping our other members fared well.
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Just got power back and all is safe and sound. I was extremely lucky and very grateful that no water invaded my sanctum. Please keep all those throughout the storms path that are suffering. Dug from King's X posted on FB that Jerry lost everything in the storm. It does remind us of the power of nature and the attachment to material possessions. Also, we are not in control and we are not the masters of the universe. But with a lot of time in the dark I imagine some folk tapped into that cosmic force. Cheers y'all.(http://club.alembic.com/Images/449/142427.jpg)
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Just heard from my brother last night (from NZ) that my neice is fine - spent 3 days eating candy and watching movies stuck in her apartment (it's a hard life.). Apparently she's only a few blocks up from where the crane snapped in half.
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To say my area has hard hit is an understatement! I had one of my trucks get crushed by a 60' tree, but nobody got hurt. I am running on back up generator, and will probably not get power back for a week.
There are areas along the coast that have entire blocks of homes that are completely gone. I am just glad that we all made it through the storm unhurt.
Regards,
Pete
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Alright, here's one of our marshes before and after the third high tide of the storm~ the first two covered the road, making no distinction between it and Long Island Sound:
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/449/142500.jpg)
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/449/142501.jpg)
A couple of houses that caught fire during the second tidal surge that the FD were unable to get to, due to the high water and propane tanks floating in the vicinity:
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/449/142502.jpg)
Our mini golf course at the mouth of the CT. river. The two buildings to each side of it were equally trashed:
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/449/142503.jpg)
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bill esq
in sworn testimony on 5/31/92 one jerome garcia in front of 20,000 people uttered the phrase
STORM AND RAIN
i rest my case
:-p
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Objection, your honor! It is more than likely that both subject of testimony and the witness were intoxicated at the time in question. I have with me 10,000 affidavits that will attest to that likelihood.
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If Jerry sang Storm and Rain in 1992, that proves those aren't the correct words! lol.
Bill, tgo
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We got hit pretty hard here in Bucks County, PA. Not from flooding, but LOTS of wind damage. Trees, poles and power lines down all over, blown transformers lying in the streets...a tree came down on the lines that run from the pole to my house, as well as a back porch. Not much to complain about compared to some people, I know...I actually count myself lucky it was not worse.
Power was just today returned to my neighborhood, but I won't have power at my house until an electrician reconnects my service which won't be until tuesday or Wednesday.
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My heart goes out to all of you effected buy this devastating event !
Wolf