Anyone on the east coast?

[Ritchie200]

Hope all is well.  PRR, are you getting any weather yet?  Doug, are you getting any of those blizzards they are talking about?

Jim

[PRR]

> PRR, are you getting any weather yet?

I'm on the far fringe of that landfall. Very tropical: warm and somewhat wet. Sandy will circle around me all week, dribbling around the edges on me. Some power outages in my county. Me, a plastic pumpkin blew over and I cleared a 4-inch leaf-clog in the new ditch. (Even with the clog, water is a foot down from where it used to be.) Apparently the waves 200 miles south were spectacular.

My parents were right under the eye at landfall. Wind and rain were frightening. They had a drip from the ceiling which collapsed in Irene, so they'll call the roofer. My brother outside NYC has lost power and some siding. In Central Jersey friends have lost power and there's sticks all over. A large university is closed, and their data-center is on generator and running low on fuel.

New Jersey and NYC are essentially closed. They may lift the no-travel bans in a day, but getting power back is gonna take longer than after Irene, and that took over a week. Probably similar down through Maryland.

The HMS Bounty sank. Wonder what it was doing out to sea... this storm was well predicted. Everybody here who hadn't already hauled their boats inland spent Sunday securing them.

[John]

I believe Ocean City got nailed pretty good. In my area (50 miles west of Baltimore) we got off very, very easy for which I'm grateful. Very little high wind, mostly in the 30mph range if I had to guess. Lots of water though, had to run the pony pump 3 times last night and once this morning to keep the water level tolerable in our dirt floor cellar. There's a reason the water heater and water pump are on cinder blocks. ;)

[kagliostro]

I hope all of you friends have not great inconvenience in this bad situation

K

[EL34]

Doug, are you getting any of those blizzards they are talking about

No blizzards here
Didn't see the news, where was that?

[Stankfut]

Doug, I have family a little further north of you, near the Va border, they said they had 8" of snow. That's unusual for October.

[EL34]

It hasn't even hit 32 here yet

close at 34 a couple times

[Stankfut]

Wow....I'm two hours east of you....it was 31 yesterday morning

[EL34]

All the crazy weather rolls right around the mountains and hits Asheville, black mountain and east of there.
Asheville is only 30 minutes away, but we don't get the same weather.

[EL34]

I saw 31 when I got up this morning
We have crossed over