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Tropical Weather

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Daughter lives in Hoboken.. and came here to stay thru the storm...
Last night she contacted friends in her apt complex...
Cars on the street are still up to the windshields in water..
no power in entire town...
She lives just a few blocks from Manning & Tebow
but they're right next to the Hudson so it's much deeper where they are

She can't get to work from here (NJ Transit is down)
She can't get to work from Hoboken (Path is under water)
Pretty sure Holland Tunnel is down/under water

Friend talked to the mayor of a 50,000 pop. town nearby...
He said at least 5 more days till power resumes
House temps are about 55-57 so they're getting chilly

Outside fixing stuff again today.. it was the coldest 55 I have felt... still windy.. feels like 30.. sun tried to poke thru.. and lost.. looks like another front coming in
 
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NJ-Buckeye;2246864; said:
I should be very thankful.. I have power... but I go 2 miles in any direction... and no power... No power at work and that's killing me...

Traffic is becoming exceptionally abysmal because no lights means every intersection is a comedy...

Just passed a neighbors house.. I knew there was a big tree down next to their house... and today I can see there is a car underneath this monster.. dead center of the roof

I see no work crews anywhere .. trees and lines with no one working on them... WTF.. I wanna go help with my chainsaw but it's electric.. argh
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sucks, but you just gotta be patient.

where I live is kinda outta the way of everything.
so when hurricanes roll through, I know ahead of time that it's usually a few days after the bigger towns get fixed up that they come down here.

don't know a out the setup with power companies up your way, but down here, a lot of the different power companies have service contracts with other companies in neighboring states.
that way when disaster hits, we have several power companies from several states all working to get power restored.
helps them cover more ground in less time that way.

I'm gonna guess that the main power suppliers up there have a similar setup as well.

good luck. hope you're up and running again soon.
 
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Union?

Having lived through a few of these a welcome site was always the convoy of electric company trucks from other states coming in to help get power restored.

There was some mention on the radio today that NJ has told non union power company workers they are not welcome and to go home. If true I sure hope the union workers homes are the last to have power restored.

I have spent some time in the union world the NY and NJ locals are some of the worst, only exceeded by the St Louis locals.

:shake:
 
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Firsthand account of the NYU hospital evacuation

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/a...ital-in-the-dark/264504/?utm_source=pulsenews

I am a medical student at NYU, and I live directly across the street from NYU Langone Medical Center and Tisch Hospital. Last Monday night, these buildings flooded, and PSE&G shut off electricity to all buildings below 40th Street. And then, as you've probably heard, the unthinkable occurred: the hospital's backup power generator failed.

I was asleep in my apartment around midnight when someone knocked on my door. It was one of the other medical students, alerting everyone to what had happened. The medical center needed volunteers to help evacuate more than 200 patients, in the dark, without elevators, from all 18 floors of the hospital...
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Mike80;2249711; said:
Yep there have been some pretty incredible stories about hospital evacuations in this situation.
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in New Orleans, they shot at helicopters trying to airlift patients from Charity hospital.

off course the shooting came to a screeching halt when the National Guard showed up.:paranoid:
 
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Nutriaitch;2250417; said:
in New Orleans, they shot at helicopters trying to airlift patients from Charity hospital.

off course the shooting came to a screeching halt when the National Guard showed up.:paranoid:
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Yeah meanwhile that douchecanoe mayor in NYC isn't allowing the National Guard to help since they will be under arms.

What a fucking idiot.
 
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190MPH winds, estimated pressure (by JMA, who is always ~15MB high) of 895 MB. Oh yeah, it's hitting the Phillipines today at full strength.
 
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I have never seen a tropical cyclone look this way for this long. It's textbook looking.

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If they had aircraft recon out there, I'd be willing to bet they'd find this is the strongest Hurricane/Cyclone/Typhoon on record.
 
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2013NOV07 173000 8.0 862.1 +4.1 170.0 8.0 8.0 8.0 NO LIMIT OFF OFF 20.59 -83.52 EYE 24 IR 103. 10.69 -126.89 COMBO MTSAT1 19.7

If they confirm that strength estimate, this would be the strongest Cyclone of any type ever measured on Earth.
 
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