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| Imminent, American East Coast Storm........ |
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| PTsideshow:
Nope the gas piping on those barrier islands is shot along with any of the wires electric, phone and cable systems. most of the board walks are reduced to just the steel/concrete supports the boards are gone, but that is the way they design them. natural gas hangs heavy in the air from the broken piping at the house connections not to mention the ruptures and the burning sands, dirt and water they are showing better to burn it off till it can be turned off. They really won't be talking about it till the people start screaming the longer it takes to get power back on. They showed a Starbucks in New York city that still had the WIFI operating it was closed but they were lined up agaisnt the glass to get a signal. :dremel: It will be a couple weeks for the subway/rail and tunnel system to be back up and running with all the salt water that was in them. two bores of one tunnel have 84 million gals of water in them. It will be a miracle, if it by Christmas that it is starting to return to normal. The poor people who lost houses etc. are just screwed till they get a check and it clears. A lot of the smaller insurance companies will fold with out paying a dime. |
| Brass_Machine:
My co-worker lives in Hoboken. A lot of the town has no power... but the people who do have been putting extension cords with powerstrips outside so those without power can charge their phones and stuff. |
| PTsideshow:
They showed a bunch of people at a bank sitting on the floor around a bunch of power strips charging phones etc. on ABC news tonight. Glad you and yours made it through it as it sure looks to be the end of the world for some of the locals. We still are getting rain/drizzle and cloud cover, the winds have finally died down and no more gusting. That was one big A$$ storm for a cat 1 |
| Fergus OMore:
Yesterday, I was watching the Limey TV about the damage especially in New York and Queens which I have visited. The American commentator remarked that flattened Queens was probably like London or Dresden. I'm from that generation and it really struck home of how people are going to cope with these problems. I'd sort of forgotten that it isn't just a brief mention and then the media goes away on something or other of 'what they consider important' We had a series of floods recently- not as severe as yours but people died- I knew one's family. One of my other friends- a single lady of over 70( who had been with us in Queens) had lost everything except her laptop in our floods. She still has not been able to return 'home' One can only hope that your people will not be forgotten. History seems to suggest that they will be. I would like to wrong- but? |
| Brass_Machine:
To give you some idea of the devastation... Before and after Eric |
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