Perfect Storm possibly brewing...

[BenedictGomez]

I used to live 3 blocks from here. Very thankful I do not anymore.

 

[Nick]

I hope you guys are safe & secure in your little inland homes. Let me just tell you down here in NYC near the water this is some serious shit & it's not getting any better. Neighborhoods are flooding, just when you think the winds couldn't get any stronger they are. High tide is still not for another 1/2 hour (approx. 9pm).

This is looking from across the street at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn from the old Lundy's restaurant. As you can see it's still daylight when this shot was taken. High tide is hours off.

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Wow ... be careful out there!!

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[steamboat1]

Scary stuff from reports going on in NYC right now. Still rising water in Western Long Island Sound heading towards NYC too My wife's business partner and her husband at at their beach house in Waterford, CT - water is almost at their back door which is about 10 feet above usual high tide levels and the wind is apparently just shifting to a more of an onshore direction keeping the water in the Sound

I'm feeling very fortunate that all I've had at my house today is a few flickers of the power

I think you got that backwards. The south shore beaches of NYC,Long Island & New Jersey are getting pounded, not the western sound. Not saying they're not feeling effects from the storm but they're not receiving the brunt end of it.

I've been very fortunate so far, one block to the north, east, west & south of me got flooded but my block & the block next to me haven't. Only a couple of flickers in electric power, I did lose one pole coming into the house for about a minute knocking out 1/2 the house,meanwhile all around me people are without power. It hasn't been the rain, it actually rained very little today considering this is a hurricane. The ocean has come up to levels never before seen in my life. And my area is in Zone B, Zone A is the most low lying areas prone to flooding & had a mandatory evacuation issued yesterday.

 

[Cornhead]

The storm was a dud here in the Southern Tier of NY, not that I'm complaining, thought for sure we'd get flooded yet again a couple days ago. I didn't even hear the wind last night, very little rain. If you had no idea the "super storm" was on it's way, you'd have thought nothing of it. My buddy in PA, about ten miles away, lost his power. I thought for sure mine would be out when I awoke, it wasn't. My Sister lives in Manhattan, East Village, I was texting her last night. I stopped when she lost power so she could conserve her phones battery. I haven't spoken with her yet today, I don't know if her apartment complex was actually flooded, it is close to the East River.

 

[ScottySkis]

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My jobs basement in NYC is completed flooded, that is were all the merchandise is kept, are building is just a few blocks south if Canal st.

 

[skiNEwhere]

I think it's safe to say Halloween is cancelled, there's gonna be a lot of bummed out kids

 

[Cornhead]

I spoke too soon, that buddy who lost his power said an 8yr old boy was killed just down the road from him, struck in the head by a falling branch.

 

[Warp Daddy]

We dodged a bullet up here along the St Lawrence last nite . Less than a tenth of an inch of rain but winds gusting at 50 mph and sustained in the hi 30's . We did not even get a flicker in power and no reported outages in our immediate vicinity . It's 68 and sunny , just finished vacuuming the leaves .

 

[4aprice]

We dodged the bullet this time in NNJ. Got the wind (65+) but not much rain, no loss of power, unlike Irene and last Oct snowstorm. My mom had a small treedown in her drive, gone with the handy dandy chainsaw.

Down at the shore it's a different story. Talked to our dear friends who live on a canal in Toms River. They had electric but were surrounded by water. Their 35 footer was safe but across Barnaget Bay from them the Casino Pier in Seaside collapsed into the sea. My BIL owns an interest in Ocean City, we know nothing yet as there is no access to the barrier island. This one might have changed the coast a little we shall see.


Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[riverc0il]

Fairly week storm where I live. We've seen much worse from non-named storms.

Bummer about all the destruction in the NYC/NJ/CT coastline areas.

 

[Nick]

Check out this set of pics

https://crunched.com/access/b81f16b788d5f745eabf10908b2abe55

 

[ALLSKIING]

My area of LI got rocked pretty good...But not by water by wind...Heavy wind! 94 mph were recorded in my area...Tons of trees just gone!

 

[riverc0il]

Wow, we are getting pummeled right now with rain and wind. Crazy! I gotta take the dog out at some point...

The video news reports of the damage is unreal. This has to be the most expensive disaster ever.

Thankfully not too many deaths reported so far. Granted every death is unfortunate but it seems like people got enough warning to get out of harms way for the most part.

 

[Bene288]

I have an uncle in Ocean Grove, NJ right next to Asbury Park. He had lost his gutters and some shingles but didn't flood as of 10 pm last night. He's pretty far from the boardwalk and about 20' above the lake. I haven't heard from him today, I imagine his phone died. Looks like down the shore in Belmar got it really bad. I'm hoping to get down there within the next few days.

 

[thetrailboss]

Wow, we are getting pummeled right now with rain and wind. Crazy! I gotta take the dog out at some point...

The video news reports of the damage is unreal. This has to be the most expensive disaster ever.

Thankfully not too many deaths reported so far. Granted every death is unfortunate but it seems like people got enough warning to get out of harms way for the most part.

FWIW I heard on NPR that they figure Katrina was much more expensive but that could change given the flooding I've seen in NYC.

 

[ScottySkis]

FWIW I heard on NPR that they figure Katrina was much more expensive but that could change given the flooding I've seen in NYC.

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I hope my boss has hurricane insurance, pictures I'm seeing of are basement is so horrible, I see for my self in the morning. I hope I still have a job next week.

 

[4aprice]

Channel 11 just took us on a helicoter ride down the shoreline from Matalookin to Seaside. Seaside is a mess with both piers partially eaten by the sea. The chairlift towers were still there but I only saw one of the terminals. There was a cut from the ocean to the bay by the Matalookin bridge. Hard to stomach having just been there a couple of months ago.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[ctenidae]

We came out okay, only 2 feet of the Sound in the first floor. Mud is the worst part.

Others in our neighborhood didn't fare as well. Waves crashed through some people's houses, whole first floors washed into the street. No loss of life. Buildings can be replaced.

 

[BLESS]

we got slammed pretty bad here in Lil Rhody too....http://www.flickr.com//photos/ridotnews/sets/72157631891636224/show/

 

[deadheadskier]

All and all minimal damage in NH around us. Not that I was expecting too much being ten miles in land and obviously hundreds of miles from the storms center.

Yet, still no power since 7PM Monday night. Not surprised. PSNH sucks. Two people can fart in the same direction in our town and the power goes out for a couple of days.