Geez. Seventy percent of my county is in the dark.
They’re reporting three to four days “best case scenario” before NYC subway service is restored. Ugh. No traffic lights on in wide swaths of Manhattan. Lower Manhattan looks like utter hell with no lights and huge puddles of water everywhere. A large oil barge crashed into the north shore of Staten Island. All local airports are closed but it looks like they might open finally tomorrow.
We’re going to get out tomorrow in the car and have a good look around the community. I called the supermarket we usually use and they’re currently closed and unsure if they’re going to open any time soon.
I had the same thing happen. The UPS battery backup didn’t die, really. It just doesn’t like the generator-supplied current because its frequency is not stable enough. Once the regular power comes back, plug it back in and it will chug along fine.
While all you folks up there in dense suburbia/the big city are without power, grab a coat or blanket, some lawn chairs, some snacks and drinks, get out in the yard/on the roof and enjoy some relatively dark skies.
That’s great. I have another friend in the same town. She came out alright too. The east side of town was fucked the rest not as bad. I didn’t know what part he lived in.
Nothing continues to happen up here near Tufts. It’s very rainy, thundering at times, and we have urban flood warnings of the “try not to park too close to the river” variety, but the worst thing that affects me personally is that, because there are downed trees and power problems on some of the western and southern outskirts of the city where the “subway” lines are really streetcar and el service, the T schedule is kind of FUBAR.
If anyone in the Greater Boston Area is still without electricity, and is in desperate need of a hot shower or some phone charge time, you can PM me, email me at miss.arabella.flynn at gmail.com, or tweet me at @ArabellaFlynn, and I’ll do what I can. Medford/Somerville still has full power and comms, as far as I know. Davis is kind of a ways out, but it’s better than nothing.
While I appreciate the sentiment, that’s a lot less fun to do when it’s cold and damp and you can’t go warm up inside with hot cocoa afterwards. Besides, I think it’s still cloudy and/or raining for most of the affected area.
Metro North is still not operational, and Greyhound Bus is currently not going to the NYC area. Does anyone have any ideas how someone can get from New Haven to Manhattan tomorrow?
My son is still trying to make his way home to Long Island from Florida. He started Sunday, was grounded in Charlotte, flew to Pittsburgh and was, last he texted, on his way to a Greyhound that was supposedly stopping in Hempstead at 7 this morning. But it’s almost 10 and we haven’t heard from him.
Not too worried that we haven’t heard from him because all of our phones are not working. This is a new development. We also are now on water rations. You’d think things would start getting better once the storm moved on.
Checking in from south of Boston. Power was out Monday and we got it back yesterday afternoon (bravo National Grid!) Lots of wind damage and Quincy Shore Drive was submerged for a bit. The clock radio that I thought had battery backup did not work and my cell phone died Monday evening so catching up on the devastation has been surreal. We got a sudden and violent storm last night with torrential rains, thunder and lightening which was frightening.
On the up side, my anxiety issues really helped me weather the storm! I had been tracking Sandy news since last week with a low level hum of anxiety that built into a pre-storm flurry of storm prep over the weekend.
Anyone care to place bets on when LaGuardia Airport and the NY subway will reopen? I’m supposed to fly in the evening of the 9th, and hope we don’t have to cancel the trip.
The subways are well and seriously borked. South Ferry station was filled to the brim with sea water. All of the lower Manhattan tracks and tunnels had water in them. They are also running into the problem of where to pump all this water. They cannot pump it into the streets because the sewer system is already compromised.
I have to admit, I was one of those people kvetching when the Mayor shut down mass transit-- when was that? It seems like ages ago-- because, well, we can’t live without it, really. Man, do I feel stupid about that now. Imagine if the subways had been filled with people during this shit!