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Is anyone starting to plan evacuation out there? The latest models
show
the
eye going right over my garage.g I'm only 6 miles from salt
water,
but
I'm at 115 feet of altitude, so I'm going to ride it out. The
storm
surge
*could* wind up re-shaping the barrier islands of NJ, like one did
just
under a century ago.

It doesn't look good.

Did you come out okay?

Wes

Oh, yeah. But I got a new wading pool in my basement. d8-)

All is well, thanks. Everything is drying out pretty well.

A question...how does one recover from flooding when you have no
power
like so many affected by Irene?

No pumps, no vacuums, no lights.

How are you and your neighbors coping with the cleanup when one does
not have power?

We have power. My house lost power at 2:00 AM during the hurricane,
when
a
tree branch fell on our pole drops from across the street. My
neighbors
did
not lose power, so, early the next morning, I ran an extension cord
from
my
neighbor's garage to my house.

Meantime, the water in the basement had risen to almost 7 inches. The
sump
pump didn't actually pump it all out. After the rain stopped, the
level
went
down 4 inches without the pump running. It just ran down the sump
hole
and
out under our slab. Very strange.

Why was not the pump pumping? Did it break or something?

The pump stopped at 2:00 AM when my power went out. I started it again
the
next morning by running an extension cord from my neighbor's garage.

One other house and mine were the only two on the street that lost
power.
The other guy's house was on "Good Morning America" the next morning,
because he had a photogenic mess of downed wires and a big tree right
across
the street. Mine was too dull for them.g

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FYI...I just heard that 900,000 people still don't have power.

TMT

They can't even get to some of them yet in Vermont. Connecticut had to
essentially rebuild 4/5 of their power distribution system. Some folks
got
off a lot worse than we did.

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I am impressed how quickly they have been able to react under very
tough condiions

And I am amazed as to how conservatives can think that this was an
insignificant weather event when it placed in the top ten of economic
disasters that have struck the Country...and the final price tag is
not in yet.

TMT

Well, that was their typical knee-jerk stupidity, which is the entire
basis
of many of their lives. They live in a fantasyland that exists only
between
their ears, fed by rightard garbage from the Internet and talk radio.

Not that much of the left doesn't feed themselves the same way. It's just
that there's so much more of it on the right.



It depends on what yardstick you measure disasters with. As far as human
life toll it was not much of a disaster, and the toll included people
falling off ladders getting ready for the storm not really a direct result
of the storm but rather poor use of a ladder. As far as economic cost
the numbers are not in yet but since the money given to the states and
counties is based on the estimate of damage it will sure be set at a high
value, remember that eventually it will all dribble out of our pockets in
taxes.

People all over the East have lost their homes, their businesses, and their
property, much of which is uninsured because most homeowners don't have
flood insurance, and some have lost loved ones, and you're talking about the
effect on your taxes.

I can't relate to that attitude at all.


I can think of a number of disasters that have killed a lot more people.
The steamboat sultana blowing up killed more than a thousand. The
triangle shirtwaist fire. a passenger boat sunk in the east river in NYC
killed quite a few not to mention a bunch of train wrecks over the last
century as well as airline crashes.

John

Great. And then there was the Civil War, which makes them all look like a
sore thumb by comparison.

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