Any Setizens in Hurricane Sandy's path?

The amount of personnel from CA is now up to 200 according to the News and there is talk of using C17 aircraft...
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Canadians are right to-day heading to the blood banks. Good luck to all of you.

SCE is or has sent 120 linemen and 70 trucks from CA via Military airlift...
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Relief in knowing none of our friends here across the pond have suffered
badly from this devastating hurricane. Lets just hope we don't see too many
more of these, must be a hell of a worry when you know you've got one of these
hurricanes coming your way....you never know just what it's going to do, damage
wise, to property or life.


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I kept the crunching going through the entire storm. We had some wind gusts around 50 and a steady rain.
lost a section of roof on my sunroom but no other damages. Just a big mess of debris to clean up. Seems the worst of it was a few miles north.

36 Trucks and 60 employees from the LADWP(Los Angeles Department of Water and Power) are being loaded onto C17 aircraft at March Air Force Base here in CA, NY and NJ Help is coming from CA... I saw this on KABC7 TV out of Los Angeles CA.

http://www.scpr.org/blogs/news/2012/10/31/10817/ladwp-socal-edison-prep-aid-superstorm-sandy-recov/


Much of the New York City skyline sits in darkness after Hurricane Sandy, on Oct. 30, 2012.

The motion by City Councilman Tom LaBonge authorizes the LADWP to make available workers with overhead and underground utility expertise who can help restore electricity and provide damage assessment.

“Our neighbors to the east are experiencing a horrific natural disaster, and power is the key to get people back in their homes and their lives right,” LaBonge said.

LaBonge said he expected the federal government to reimburse the city for any costs incurred by sending the city’s utility workers.

LADWP General Manager Ron Nichols supported the motion.

“There’s a history of mutual assistance between utilities, and we’re looking at the prospect of making available our help,” Nichols said.

Not a regular poster in the cafe, so i missed this thread.

The streets in this part of Brooklyn are about 60 feet above sea level, so we were fortunate enough to avoid the flooding. Power was a bit iffy as the storm rolled through, though never out for more than a few seconds before I hit the sack. I'm pretty certain I witnessed a transformer blow not too far away, lots of very bright white flashes for about half a minute. The power of the wind was amazing to witness, I'm glad the rainfall was not too bad by NYC standards (less than an inch).

Spent a fair amount of the night watching events unfold on TV, lots of very familiar places transformed (for example, I lived in Battery Park).

Subway service is slowly returning to normal which is good. Fuel is finally getting through to some of the local gas stations, I'm not a car owner, though use cabs fairly frequently and I can only imagine the frustration of waiting in line several hours only to find out that there's none left.

I do hope power is returned soon to those that don't yet have it, it's been getting fairly cold at night the past few days, and seems to be staying that way for a while. It can't be pleasant for those unable to find alternative accommodation.
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Not a regular poster in the cafe, so i missed this thread.

The streets in this part of Brooklyn are about 60 feet above sea level, so we were fortunate enough to avoid the flooding. Power was a bit iffy as the storm rolled through, though never out for more than a few seconds before I hit the sack. I'm pretty certain I witnessed a transformer blow not too far away, lots of very bright white flashes for about half a minute. The power of the wind was amazing to witness, I'm glad the rainfall was not too bad by NYC standards (less than an inch).

Spent a fair amount of the night watching events unfold on TV, lots of very familiar places transformed (for example, I lived in Battery Park).

Subway service is slowly returning to normal which is good. Fuel is finally getting through to some of the local gas stations, I'm not a car owner, though use cabs fairly frequently and I can only imagine the frustration of waiting in line several hours only to find out that there's none left.

I do hope power is returned soon to those that don't yet have it, it's been getting fairly cold at night the past few days, and seems to be staying that way for a while. It can't be pleasant for those unable to find alternative accommodation.

Thanks for the update there Bobby, I didn't realise that you were based in Brooklyn NYC. Queens seems pretty devastated from what we can see.

Queens