OT: All Northeast Cards fans please take care

[CtCardinals78]

I'm in a Manhattan high rise so I don't have to worry about floods. Winds have picked up the last hour; crossing my fingers for power until midnight, afterwards, I don't care as much

Had some gusts over 75 here that shook the house like i never experienced, but we're still doing ok. Flipping back and forth between ESPN and The Weather Channel. This is a storm my kids will be telling their kids about. Incredible. Oh yeah, Go Cards!

 

[BigRedFan]

wind has gone down the last 15 minutes, maybe we've seen the worst of it.

 

[Dr. Jones]

Man... I wish my power went out about 4 hours ago.

 

[NJCardFan]

The devastation is unbelievable. The Seaside Heights boardwalk is pretty much gone. Piers gone. Roads either flooded or covered in 3 feet of sand. The entire shore line is flooded. The town of Breezys Point, NY nearly completely burned to the ground. Over 100 houses damaged or completely destroyed. People are still trapped on the barrier islands. NYC is having major power issues and the Battery tunnel is totally flooded to it's ceiling. At least 33 killed. Untold damage. Recent estimates put it at about $20 billion but that number will grow. Of all of that, the amazing thing is that my area came out relatively unscathed. We never lost power and all we got was a little rain. I'm at a loss because I should be glad but all I can ask is why were we spared when so many others are suffering. Is that wrong?

 

[BigRedFan]

I was in a Manhattan high rise facing the south and it didn't seem that bad, didn't lose power (watched the whole Big Red game for whatever that was worth). Manhattan has fewer trees and less susceptible to downed power lines and the buildings more resistant to wind damage. It was only a category 1 downgraded to tropical storm before landfall. I think you hear more about the areas hit and they are in the minority, mainly the coastal areas. But it was so widespread, that in summation, it did cause a lot of damage. I think storm of the century was an overtstatement, we should leave that to the category 3s and up, the Andrews, Katrinas, etc.

The devastation is unbelievable. The Seaside Heights boardwalk is pretty much gone. Piers gone. Roads either flooded or covered in 3 feet of sand. The entire shore line is flooded. The town of Breezys Point, NY nearly completely burned to the ground. Over 100 houses damaged or completely destroyed. People are still trapped on the barrier islands. NYC is having major power issues and the Battery tunnel is totally flooded to it's ceiling. At least 33 killed. Untold damage. Recent estimates put it at about $20 billion but that number will grow. Of all of that, the amazing thing is that my area came out relatively unscathed. We never lost power and all we got was a little rain. I'm at a loss because I should be glad but all I can ask is why were we spared when so many others are suffering. Is that wrong?

 

[CtCardinals78]

The devastation is unbelievable. The Seaside Heights boardwalk is pretty much gone. Piers gone. Roads either flooded or covered in 3 feet of sand. The entire shore line is flooded. The town of Breezys Point, NY nearly completely burned to the ground. Over 100 houses damaged or completely destroyed. People are still trapped on the barrier islands. NYC is having major power issues and the Battery tunnel is totally flooded to it's ceiling. At least 33 killed. Untold damage. Recent estimates put it at about $20 billion but that number will grow. Of all of that, the amazing thing is that my area came out relatively unscathed. We never lost power and all we got was a little rain. I'm at a loss because I should be glad but all I can ask is why were we spared when so many others are suffering. Is that wrong?

Unbelievable devastation. This will be a storm people are going to talk about for decades. I'm glad everyone seemed to have made it through ok. I wouldn't feel guilty about escaping unscathed. Be thankful.

 

[NJCardFan]

Unbelievable devastation. This will be a storm people are going to talk about for decades. I'm glad everyone seemed to have made it through ok. I wouldn't feel guilty about escaping unscathed. Be thankful.

I know I should but I feel like the only survivor of a plane crash. But my heart truly goes out to those who've lost so much.

 

[Mitch]

I took the precaution of checking into a hotel...last year I braved through it and cringed at what I saw and heard...three trees coming down at once one smashing into the back of my car....thankfully not onto the house.

This storm was a like an expert prize fighter---jab, jab, jab, jab, jab and then boom, boom, boom, boom, left right left. The gusts were extremely powerful---and we in MA were just on the periphery.

Thankfully when i returned home this morning, no trees had fallen, just a few big branches...and the power was still on.

To see the devastation elsewhere is overwhelming....it's every homeowner's worst nightmare.

Bless those who have lost so much---and those who reach out to help or offer a warm hand.

And bless everyone here at ASFN for keeping all the East Coast fans in your thoughts and prayers.

 

[DemsMyBoys]

I'm at a loss because I should be glad but all I can ask is why were we spared when so many others are suffering. Is that wrong?

I think it means you have a heart and realize other people were horribly affected while you were fortunate. I'm glad you got through OK.

 

[Mitch]

I think it means you have a heart and realize other people were horribly affected while you were fortunate. I'm glad you got through OK.

Perfectly said---me too NJ...

 

[CtCardinals78]

I was in a Manhattan high rise facing the south and it didn't seem that bad, didn't lose power (watched the whole Big Red game for whatever that was worth). Manhattan has fewer trees and less susceptible to downed power lines and the buildings more resistant to wind damage. It was only a category 1 downgraded to tropical storm before landfall. I think you hear more about the areas hit and they are in the minority, mainly the coastal areas. But it was so widespread, that in summation, it did cause a lot of damage. I think storm of the century was an overtstatement, we should leave that to the category 3s and up, the Andrews, Katrinas, etc.

I disagree. This was a very serious storm that had damaging flooding in the Mid Atlantic, redrew the Jersey coast, did unprecedented damage in terms of flooding in NYC, destroyed the coastlines of NY and CT and is still dropping upwards of 3' of snow in the Appalachains, put close to 10 million people in 12 states out of power, many of them very likely for over a week, shut down a quarter of the nations air traffic, shut down Boston, Washington DC and New York City's three airports for at least two days. Thankfully people heeded evacuation orders. If they didn't the death tool could have been in the hundreds if not thousands.

Without getting into too much details many things needed to come together in order for this storm to hit. It all needed to line up perfectly for this to hit and it did. This was a once in a few hundred years storm that set all kinds of records up and down the Atlantic seaboard. This storm will be studied, examined and talked about for many, many years. Preliminary estimates will put the total damage between $50-80 billion. If anything this storm was stronger than predicted.

 

[NJCardFan]

I was in a Manhattan high rise facing the south and it didn't seem that bad, didn't lose power (watched the whole Big Red game for whatever that was worth). Manhattan has fewer trees and less susceptible to downed power lines and the buildings more resistant to wind damage. It was only a category 1 downgraded to tropical storm before landfall. I think you hear more about the areas hit and they are in the minority, mainly the coastal areas. But it was so widespread, that in summation, it did cause a lot of damage. I think storm of the century was an overtstatement, we should leave that to the category 3s and up, the Andrews, Katrinas, etc.

I think the reason why they're calling it the storm of the century is because of how wide spread it is. From the Carolinas up to Connecticut and as far west as Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky with blizzards for the latter 4 states. Katrina belted the Gulf coast and was bad enough. This storm just in electricity there are over 3 million people out. That is just crazy.

Oh, and it seems as though the mayor of Atlantic City went to the Ray Nagin school of disaster preparedness. When Gov. Christie was urging, well, downright ordering people to leave the barrier islands, Langford was urging his people to stay, ride it out, and head to the shelters in AC, one of which ended up completely flooded. The man is an idiot. Well, considering the kind of cesspool he's mayor of it's not that much of a stretch.

 

[phillycard]

I made out scott-free for the most part. I hope my Jersey Card fam made out okay. The shore ponts got hit HARD.

 

[Osbern61]

Winds blowing the heavy rain practically horizontal allowed alot of water into my living room destroying the carpet and my basement door got blown off its hinges and 10 feet into my basement, but otherwise I made out alright. Lost power for a couple days and missed the game, so that was good.