NASTY SANDY CHURNING UP THE COAST

The current track is aiming straight at hamburgboy.

sending good thoughts his way

My damage is less severe than I woulda thought. Ive lost some downspouting on the barn, and about 10 trees total. One tree, an especially big old red oak, was one of our favorites in the woods. At least Ill get lumber ad a lot of firewood fom that old lady.

Our neighbor has a grove of Pawlonia that all look like they were shredded. Weird.

The meterologists up here have been describing what came through last night as a cyclone of some type.

Those cat 4 level pressure readings certainly explain everyone's headaches.

We got power back around 9:30 EST this morning. I frankly was surprised to see most of the rain had stopped by the time I got up about 6 AM. Didn't sleep well, not because of high winds(used to live in Ice Land) but the barometric pressure plays havoc with my sinuses and can coax migraines to blossom. Haven't checked everything yet, noticed the wind lifted flashing on the roof from around the fireplace, and we have a 3 foot freeform stain on the bedroom ceiling. That's easy to fix. Bay Bridge is open right now but will close if winds get too high (standard practice). Our good friend Jerry's daughter was supposed to be at Sloan Kettering yesterday for a port adjustment and hopefully chemo. Since this was arrainged by Hopkins, hopfully they will manage in Baltimore via teleconferencing with the Medical Gods at Blessed Sloan Kettering.

So the glitterbags are fine, the temp is 41 degrees (not so bad) and we haven't checked the rainguage yet for a reading.

Hope everyone has power and remains safe. Earlier on WTOP, they reported 18 deaths and since they broadcast to Wash, Balto, and Parts of VA (I think), That might be my general area....didn't get whole story, maybe that's a total along the east coast. I hope there are no first responders in that figure.

Just made a pot of coffee and plan to read the paper. Check in later.

Special thanks to Ossobucco and Ehbeth for being out there when I needed a little help.

Thanks for the update, glad you came through it pretty well!

Coast Guard Hopeful About Finding Ship's Captain

Text Size- / +By EMERY P. DALESIO Associated Press
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. October 30, 2012 (AP)

The Coast Guard used ships and airplanes to search the Atlantic on Tuesday for the captain of the HMS Bounty, which went down during Hurricane Sandy.

The Coast Guard was optimistic Robin Walbridge, 63, of St. Petersburg, Fla., could still be alive in his blazing red survival suit 90 miles off the North Carolina coast. Wallbridge went overboard early Monday when the replica 18th-century sailing vessel, made famous in Hollywood adventure films, rolled over in 18-foot waves.

The searched was hampered by 15-feet waves, but the water temperature was about 77 degrees.

"There's a lot of factors that go into survivability. Right now we're going to continue to search. Right now we're hopeful," Coast Guard Capt. Joe Kelly said.

The Coast Guard rescued 14 crew members of the Bounty by helicopter Monday. Hours later, they found Claudene Christian, 42, unresponsive. She was later declared dead. The rest of the crew was in good condition.

The search through the night for the captain encompassed 1,300 square miles, aided by a Miami-based plane with night-vision capability, he said. A decision on how much longer to search will come later Tuesday, Kelly said.

now weve got cleanups to get on with.

Glad to see you're up and running ^5.

Good to see you posting again glitter.

It's really warm up here right now. Almost 70 degrees. Weird.

I love giving votes down for posting info about a ship sinking due to this 'super storm'.

Highly amusing and I am going to be even more amused if the super hype over this cat one storm cause the weather bureau to retire the name Sandy.

Hell the only thing that seems super about Sandy is the hype.

your pulling in warm tropical air from Hudson Bay

what's gotten your knickers in a knot Bill?

Ha

I looked at the maps and the jet stream is in a big huge loop around the storm. Looks like we're getting warm air from somewhere down around Florida.

I'm sure it'll turn cold as soon as the air from Hudson Bay loops all the way around.

and the swirling storm is bringing another bucket of rain to downtown Toronto right now. It's rained almost non-stop here since Friday. First the storm from the west, and then the whatever-it-was-that-was-created-when-Sandy-met-the-storm-from-the-west.





I like my umbrella, but not to the degree that it becomes my significant other.

MTA is sure that they have tunnel flooding, but not sure how much or how long it will take to get up. Pumping the water out is the easy part...getting the power, signal and switching systems back could be a huge problem. not only is there a parts supply problem but there is also a lack of experience on how to go about this.

is it salt water?

I have not seen a quote from an mta official saying so, but I did see a journalists news blog (nyt?) Saying yes it is. For instance every single train detector that got wet might be fouled now.

Theyll get a coupla oil field engineers up there nd thyll spray em in a surfactant . Thtlly tke care of mot of it. Then itll take tons of industrial grde WD-40