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ashie62 Aug 06 2020 06:48 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 06 2020 04:13 PM

A little late. Northern NJ is all trees around here. Even the telephone poles were ripped from the ground. Our power estimate is tuesday 08/12 ugh I am hiding out in PA near cooby 1.3 million outages. I thought Sandy had taken all the trees, not

Benjamin Grimm Aug 06 2020 07:04 AM Re: Storm Thread

Tuesday, December 12????????? That's over three years from now. I'd consider moving.

Lefty Specialist Aug 06 2020 08:55 AM Re: Storm Thread

Lots of trees down in Central NJ. But we didn't lose power. We bought a Generac generator after Sandy and like buying an umbrella and having it not rain, we've never lost power for more than a few minutes since. It's like Mother Nature is teasing us.

metsmarathon Aug 06 2020 03:20 PM Re: Storm Thread

we lost power for a day and a half. had it come back last night around 6. was expecting more of a 'wait till next week' answer like we'd had in the past, but i guess we've complained enough in prior years to JCP&L that they wanted to shut us up this time around.

ashie62 Aug 06 2020 04:14 PM Re: Storm Thread

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Tuesday, December 12????????? That's over three years from now. I'd consider moving. Thanks Grimm, I'm thinking less clealy than usual

nymr83 Aug 06 2020 08:29 PM Re: Storm Thread

Lefty Specialist wrote: Lots of trees down in Central NJ. But we didn't lose power. We bought a Generac generator after Sandy and like buying an umbrella and having it not rain, we've never lost power for more than a few minutes since. It's like Mother Nature is teasing us. this is like the snowblower that didnt leave my garage all winter

ashie62 Aug 06 2020 08:57 PM Re: Storm Thread

Id be happy to have one, but as they run on gasoline, I think, they scare me

MFS62 Aug 07 2020 05:30 PM Re: Storm Thread

Just got power and house internet (Frontier Communications) back at 5:45 today. The Spectrum service I need for work isn't back yet. Later

Johnny Lunchbucket Aug 10 2020 08:29 AM Re: Storm Thread

We left for ithaca just ahead of this. Missed the wind but woke up 1st morning camping to lots of heavy rain. Good test of our survival skills. Returned home yesterday to see our magnificent sunflowers knocked over, and lots of cars parked on our street smashed by downed branches.

MFS62 Aug 10 2020 08:50 AM Re: Storm Thread

=MFS62 post_id=43077 time=1596843034 user_id=60] Just got power and house internet (Frontier Communications) back at 5:45 today. The Spectrum service I need for work isn't back yet. Later

Update:

We got power restored at 11PM last night (Sunday). It had been knocked out in the storm, returned for one day(see my quoted post), the went out again.



Later

metsmarathon Aug 10 2020 10:06 AM Re: Storm Thread

not sure if it belongs here or in the gardening thread, but it follows lunchbucket. the tightness with which our garden is packed did no great favors for all of our residents. the sunflowers, corn and pumpkin plants being so intermingles led to the sunflowers blowing around, beating up all the corn and pumpkins with their enormous flower heads, and the pumpkins, weighed down with all the rain, pulling down on the corn stalks with their tendrils wrapped around everything. I was out there on wednesday doing some triage - propping up the corn stalks that weren't snapped, releasing them from their pumpkinny death grip. looks like it wasn't a complete disaster. my giant tomato forest, on the other hand... it's not that i'm worried about the crop, it's just that i'm not sure i'll ever be able to get all the tomatoes that are growing in there. they are so densely packed, and were so tall and generally self-supporting, that they all blew over in the same direction, and are now a massive, tangled jumble pushed up against one side of the fencing. i've tried my best to tease out some individual larger vines to prop them up better, but it's still a massive problem. i suppose, though, that if some small amount of un-realized tomato crop is the worst i have to bear from the storm, we'll be ok. 'tis a good learning experience to next year plant fewer and provide much more vertical support. the few branches that got knocked down in our yard will illuminate our night and warm our s'mores this evening.

MFS62 Aug 16 2020 08:35 AM Re: Storm Thread

We just had an "oh, s**t, not again" moment. The power went out at around 9:40 this morning. When I called Eversource (which is being sued by my town for their slow response to the outage during the storm) I learned that about 900 customers in my area were without power. We got it back at around 10:30. We then got two phone calls and two emails telling us that it had been restored (as if we didn't know). Sounds like they are a little gun shy. Later

Edgy MD Aug 16 2020 09:41 AM Re: Storm Thread

California's got a "Fire Tornado Warning" going, which, you know, dear God. https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200816105706-01-fire-tornado-0815-exlarge-169.jpg> https://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2020_33/3404938/200815-fire-tornado-axc-1133p_4a4a6354ea361104fb633dc6ec4ccfa9.fit-2000w.jpg> https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/capital-weather-gang/201209/images/firewhirls.jpg?uuid=O4dlPgNOEeKBAuvunGbhkA>

ashie62 Aug 16 2020 10:40 AM Re: Storm Thread

Hellfire

MFS62 Aug 27 2020 02:10 PM Re: Storm Thread

There are 80 MPH winds now along the Connecticut coast (New Haven County) and a tornado warning for Western Connecticut (Fairfiedl County) through 7 PM. Just what we f'n need. Later

whippoorwill Aug 27 2020 02:33 PM Re: Storm Thread

=ashie62 post_id=42964 time=1596718128 user_id=90] A little late. Northern NJ is all trees around here. Even the telephone poles were ripped from the ground. Our power estimate is tuesday 08/12 ugh I am hiding out in PA near cooby 1.3 million outages. I thought Sandy had taken all the trees, not

Ah just saw this!



Hey do you guys remember Simonsayssimon at MOFO? He's living in Houston now enjoying all these storms

kcmets Aug 27 2020 02:45 PM Re: Storm Thread

Just got a 'robocall' from our city emergency management that there's a tornado warning and to batten down the hatches. I told him I did batten 'em down. He wasn't programmed to appropriately reply in WB cartoon fashion. 2020, oy...

Frayed Knot Aug 27 2020 03:07 PM Re: Storm Thread

And now 'Laura' -- currently in Arkansas -- is sked to make a northeasterly arc and at least skim the southern edge of the NYC area by Saturday afternoon.

kcmets Aug 27 2020 06:58 PM Re: Storm Thread

=kcmets post_id=44829 time=1598561142 user_id=53] Just got a 'robocall' from our city emergency management that there's a tornado warning and to batten down the hatches. I told him I did batten 'em down. He wasn't programmed to appropriately reply in WB cartoon fashion. 2020, oy...

And then it rained for fifteen minutes! Drama...

whippoorwill Aug 28 2020 06:38 AM Re: Storm Thread

Yeah that wind yesterday was crazy. But once it rained the wind stopped. That 15 minutes, as KC said