Hurricane Sandy

[Bubba1]

Glad to hear you ,the wife and cat are OK !
Hang in there !

The important part is that you and your family got out safe. The rest can be replaced. Was your apartment rented or was it a condo?

[frapjap]

Hey guys...
I lost the LBC and my wife's civic to the water, and my apt building is currently being reviewed by the city to see if it is going to be condemned.

As of now no one is allowed to stay there, but only allowed to remove belongings..
I lived at franklin blvd and shore rd in long beach in an apartment building on the boardwalk... 7th floor. What I was able to safely carry down 7 flights of stairs is limited to the things that cannot be replaced (wedding album, hard drive, some clothes). From what the engineers told me that I was able to speak with, water will not be restored for around a month, electric should be around a month after the water is restored (this is for my building specifically).

There was around 3 feet of sand in my lobby when I left on Monday morning, I was there yesterday and National Guard had removed all the sand and water from the lobby, the whole building smells like a rotting fishtank.

National Guard is distributing water and MREs infront of the supermarket and city hall has setup a makeshift operation in the supermarket parking lot.

As of now I have 2 rental cars and I am trying to find a decent car (I am thinking about using NICo to help me find a solid car out of state) that will be almost covered by my insurance check ($TBD).

I am staying in Floral Park with my mother-in-law, in a 8x10 room with my wife and Moe (cat), with 6 taxidermy animals hanging in the room lol. We have hot water and gas, but no heat or electric.

Tuesday I waited at home depot for 7 hours to get a generator, then waited in line for gas, only to find that the generator is defective. Working on getting another one...

For the most part, the boardwalk is destroyed, much of it got washed down the street... it looks like Beirut...

Wow man! Bummer to hear about the cars, but glad you and wifey are a-okay. Is your actual apartment space okay, but the rest of the building is fubar'd?

[Xdisaster240sX]

From what I hear, theres another storm coming over from the west and will have close to 50mph winds.

[SHIFT_COUPE]

Good to hear from you Brian. Hope things get better for you down there soon.

[ricebike]

glad to see LBC replying... National Guard is giving out MREs and water all over the eastern coast. hope power is restored by the time i drive out to work tomorrow.

From what I hear, theres another storm coming over from the west and will have close to 50mph winds.

that is gonna suck for one of my neighbors; he has a 60 ft pine tree leaning towards the home & better hurry up & chop it down i loaned him my cheapo 14" chainsaw so he & his buddies can "limb it" before the storm

[LongBeachCoupe]

I rent(ed) a 1br apt on the boardwalk... its on the 7th floor though, moving anything out is just not safe to some extent, some things wont even be possible given no electric... I am just hoping it does not get condemned.

Does anyone happen to have a receipt for a Nismo Exhaust for the altima coupe or a receipt for a set of G37 19" rims? Those are the 2 missing from my parts...

[DJ_B_Easy]

^Someone in the AC section has to have one, post it up in there.

[jdansmith]

I really feel for all those who are suffering due to Sandy. I pray thing get back to normal or as close as possible real soon. Some of the images are horrible and as bad as the storm was it could have been worse if it were a slow moving storm. I could not imagine loosing as much as as some of these family's have.

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Good to hear from you Brian.

[alms24sebring]

Oh man LBC, sorry it sounds like you got the brunt of the force. I cant really imagine that feeling of a seeing a destroyed seaside. Post some neighborhood pics if you can.

[Jesda]

What's going on with Staten Island? Seems like the hardest hit part of NY was forgotten.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/annemarie ... 68895.html

By the time news outlets realized what was happening, our bridges and crossings were open.
By Saturday afternoon, volunteers from other parts of the city arrived, as did a legion of FEMA trucks, and the Red Cross, and the National Guard. Both news and recovery helicopters have spent the weekend flying over the eastern coast line. Emergency stations were doling out free gasoline, the marathon, which absolutely would divert necessary resources from the disaster zone, thank you very much Mayor Bloomberg, has been canceled and there is hope in the air.

But what still has residents exasperated is the late response. The Red Cross station parked in Charleston, while extremely helpful, is a little late. Tottenville has been cleaning itself up amazingly. And the National Guard would have been much more productive before the remains of homes were piled up onto the sidewalk awaiting sanitation trucks. "It's all being done by the volunteers!" shouts one commenter on silive.com. At a recovery station in Tottenville, a woman picked up a clipboard to begin giving direction. "I'm from here. This is my home we're cleaning." Feelings ran similarly high at an evacuation center on the south shore where one worker wiped her brow, "I'm glad for all the help, but I don't know how I feel about all of these people coming into Staten Island." There's still a division here and a lot of questions. Why are they coming now? Why didn't anyone come sooner?

[DJ_B_Easy]

^Because Manhattan. They basically were forgotten.

Seems as though the gas rationing odd/even is working. Went out last night with the fiance and we waited an entire 10 minutes for gas. Only premium was available though.

What are you guys down in South NJ and LI finding?

Price gouging is still happening by me. Also a friend of mine who works for BMW service dept had a customer come in with an engine running terribly. He took a fuel sample, it was 50% WATER.

[ricebike]

south jersey suburbs near philly didn't lose power or lost power for a day after the storm; everything in that area seems to be normal... no gas lines or price gouge stations anywhere there.

some of these malls that i'm delivering to are living in a fantasy land; stuck up fru-fru people...

that BMW person better report that station ASAP! the Gov frowns upon price raping in these times... dept of weights & measures. no amount of gas line antifreeze can remove that much water.

lost power during the nor-easter last nite; nice n chilly

co-worker has a home in Staten Island; he's currently staying at some friends in Cherry Hill instead & will not return there since the incident.

shore areas still bad; we still cant deliver their packages to those areas

[DJ_B_Easy]

BMW tech friend said the customer was going after the gas station. They called dept of consumer affairs.

Im good after the nor'easter last night. A few of my coworkers got power back Tuesday evening, then lost it again yesterday afternoon.

[alms24sebring]

That snowy nor-easter was a pretty dam close and almost a direct hit to where Sandy hit. Talk about tough luck. I hope everyone will be ok sooner than later

[numbnuts240]

stupid nor'easter and its stupid snow. i don't like shoveling 8" of snow as soon as i get home from work at 5am. 5am is night night time.

[DJ_B_Easy]

Not sure if this made headline national news or not, but Seaside pier is pretty dang destroyed again. 8 Alarm fire tore through a lot of what was just rebuilt after Sandy.



Smoke plume was so large it was showing up on weather radar.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09 ... towns?lite

[Bubba1]

Not sure if this made headline national news or not, but Seaside pier is pretty dang destroyed again. 8 Alarm fire tore through a lot of what was just rebuilt after Sandy.



Smoke plume was so large it was showing up on weather radar.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09 ... towns?lite

It seems a rather drastic way to erase the stench of Snooki. (Her Jersey Shore TV show was filmed in that town). Seriously, it did make national news. Fortunately no one was seriously injured. Local speculation was that the cause was an electrical fire in an ice cream shop.