Given that all the news is about hurricane Sandy, in lieu of a regular blog post, let’s do a storm check-in. Is everyone safe? Did anyone have to evacuate? Any family members who needed to? My in-laws live on Long Island and their power went out around 8pm last night, but the complex where they live has a generator so everyone is okay. I live in Atlanta and we’re fine, but lots of high winds here.
Check in with us and let us know you’re storm story–or if you’re lucky enough to be out of range.
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Even though the storm made landfall about 20 miles from us, we came through pretty well. Lots of rain and winds, but no damage — we did lose power from about 5pm until about 2am last night but all is well.
Is it a bad thing that I used my little book-light and read the whole time? LOL!
Odd that we’re worried about our northeastern neighbors instead of down here in the South. Glad to hear everybody is doing well. It was a seriously big-ass storm, since we’ve had wind gusts for a few days from it. I was in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL over the weekend, and they were gusty, as well as the surf being unusually high. Prayers are with those suffering.
We’re fine here in NYC. Can see the crane from the front of our building, but it’s well out of range for us. Very blustery here still. And lots of rain. Tunnels and bridges are starting to reopen. We’ve got power, but lots of the city does not. Most things are still closed, although our bagel place is open for business as usual.
Thank God for the bagel places! I seriously wish we had one here. Best food ever and total intrepid “no storm is going to mess with me” New York attitude. I love it!
SO scary about that crane! How on earth are they going to be able to get that thing down?
Glad to hear some tunnels and bridges are reopening. How about the subways?
I’m glad you’re ok. That crane thing is insane!
I’m in Ohio. We have been getting rain since Saturday. Last night we also got the high winds. Some areas of the county are without power. All schools in the county are closed. My 88 year old mother is fine. She also has power (as does our special needs son and his wife). She says there are large areas of water around her apartment complex. I’ve never seen a hurricane like this one. We’ve set through cat 1 hurricanes in a 5th wheel in Myrtle Beach which amounted to a very long storm with little destruction.
Glad to hear you and yours are okay, Sandi. xox
Isn’t it amazing how something like that can be happening on the east coast, and the weather is beautiful and still here in the middle. Hope everyone is safe and sound and staying dry.
Sherri, glad you got an earlier flight.
The weather is fine here in California too. So, so hard to imagine what all the East coast folks are enduring when it’s 78 sunny degrees here. Can someone tell me *why* it is necessary for weather reporters to stand outside in the wind and rain, etc, to report conditions? Don’t they have remote controlled cameras for a reason??
Yes, Laura! WHY do those people have to stand out there? It’s crazy! And then, of course, there are always pics of the insane people who are surfing, etc. during the storm waves and don’t understand what “evacuate” means.
I heard on the radio that between the reporters, satellite techs, and drivers, CNN has more than 100 staffers out in the storm zone. The news director says that they’ve basically accepted that people will be hurt in the process of reporting.
And The Weather Channel director said something along the lines of, “Our job is to go into the storm and show people what it looks like, so they won’t try to go into it themselves. By going out there, we show people what NOT to do.”
I agree–it’s chilly and sort of windy here in Atlanta, but other than that–nothing.
Considering all the jerks I have seen running, cartwheeling, and carrying on behind weather reporters this week, I think the Weather Channel director might be a little out of touch.
I’m in Kentucky, so clearly, we’re not affected by the hurricane. But having survived a massive ice storm two years ago, which resulted in no power for half of the state for nearly two weeks, I can offer the following tips for the “powerless” (assuming they can read this blog on their smart phones):
-Choose a common area of your living space and stay there. Corral the heat by hanging blankets over interior and exterior doors.
-Inventory your food and canned goods, plan meals based on what will expire without refrigeration first. We used our back porch as a fridge, because it was much colder than the interior of the house, but this only works if it’s cool enough and sheltered from animals.
-If you end up with an “emergency” grocery/battery/baby item need, try going to an open pharmacy. Everybody rushes to the bread and milk aisle in the grocery, but few think to take advantage of stores with smaller food stocks.
-Board games, board games, board games.
Great advice, Molly. Glad you’re in a safe zone!
Safe! My family lost cable-phone-internet (horrors!) but they are safe and well. I got an earlier flight out tomorrow morning, can’t wait to be home now.
So glad your family is safe, Sherri–I know how worried you were. I can’t believe the pics I’m seeing of the devastation. Awful.
Wonderful news on all counts, Sherri!
My family in Daytona had some heavy winds for a couple of days but that has passed. I just hope Sandy fizzles out and does not decide to reclaim her position on water and slam into the UK.
I hope so, too, Ti. Mother Nature can be a real…well, mutha! It’s still cold and windy here in Atlanta, but that’s it. Feeling very lucky.
My friend in TN went up to Newfoundland Gap to take pictures of the snow. I have to admit, if we did move back stateside, it would be to the Smokies or Appalachian mtns. Love that area soooo much.
I have family in Dunwoody area of Atlanta.
Just glad to see people came out of this with little loss compared to what we assumed might happen.
One of my BFF’s lives in Dunwoody! I know the area well as Perimeter mall used to be one of my favorite haunts before we moved–not only for shopping but I used to meet my critique partners there every week. Now it’s almost 2 hours away, so I don’t get there very much.