One hundred thousand welcomes indeed!
Sandy may be strong, but the family lives on. This does make me wonder, though, if the dweller isn't actually welcoming Sandy, as though to teach her how to become even stronger before she gets beaten.
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One hundred thousand welcomes indeed!
Sandy may be strong, but the family lives on. This does make me wonder, though, if the dweller isn't actually welcoming Sandy, as though to teach her how to become even stronger before she gets beaten.
Haha that's awesome. If your getting blasted by sandy please check in when she passes. Hoping your all ok out there.
I'm ok in Harrisburg PA. A few tree's down in the neighborhood, but no extended power outages where I live.
Everything went pretty well with me roof stayed on power stayed up and I managed to kill a few dragons and crave up some pumpkins.
NJ still has the most people without power for the NYC - Tri-State Area. As of 6pm est there are still around 6 million people in 7 states without power. At one point, ALL of Long Island had no power. I think 8.5 million was around the total without power at one point during the storm. The closer to the coast the worse the damage is for this one. This storm managed to beat a lot of really old records and in most places had double the surge that Irene had. The wind was worse than the rain fall on this one. The the area with snow got it insanely fast. I know several people closer to this storm than I was in the Catskills and I'm hoping they are all right because I know of them have not reported in here yet.
Hope everyone is okay Briseadh. It's hard to imagine the impact a Storm of that size could have on the coastal cities of such a large population. Did the authorities have any particular reason they didn't shut down power to the substations in NY/NJ? The videos of transformers exploding on the skyline was impressive, but surely turning them off would have been a better move as they would have been able to get power back on faster. Leaving the Substations online for the storm surge to come in and blow them up seems like a pretty big over sight by the electrical distribution companies.
Well, they didn't think some of it would hit like it did. Not sure why when three days ahead of time the weather reports from several sources were all saying surge expected to be twice that of Irene and it sure was and then some due to high tide on a full moon with the winds. They only started shutting down some of the sections after things started exploding. In a few cases they were proactive, but not by much and that was later things as they realized how bad it really was. Watched a lot of the NYC and Jersey shore stuff live on ABC. The stupidest thing that people did was NOT leave when told to. Per what they can figure for NYC only half the people evacuated the areas that needed to be evacuated and that led to a lot of manpower for rescues. They had shelters set up, but then again that's a lot of people in one very populated area to move around. I haven't managed to talk to anyone that knows about our affiliated church down on Long Island and how they are all doing. I at least know that area didn't flood but at one point all of LI had no power. Know too many people down there and just praying everything works out all right for everyone I do know.
I live about a hour from the Jersey shore. Beside a few large limbs falling in my yard and shutters being blown off my home all is well. Wish I could say the same for some of my neighbors whom I'm lending a hand to here and there when I can. I believe the death toll is 16 now here in NJ alone? My thoughts and prayers go out to all who have lost loved ones in this time of crises. God Bless you and yours, Don
