Allow me to vent. We are still dealing with the effects of Sandy here on the east end of Long Island, and although we escaped the major damage that the Jersey Shore endured, many of us have no power.
No power also means no water as many of us use well water.
The kicker here is that our street is a priority street, and they did restore power to the street ends, the middle of the street has been “spliced” out, and here we sit 5 days later. The worst part is that our next door neighbor was ordered to trim a tree in front of their property, they never did and that is the very tree that is resting on the power lines. They have a generator and are sitting fine, and no they have not offered refuge to their neighbors.
Maybe we will have power back at some point this weekend, and if so, I’ll take some time to relax with the trains, before and after one heck of a clean up.
Ken understand what your going thru completely having been thru 3 hurricanes and 2 tropical storms 1 of which I thought was worst than the last hurricane I was thru which was a cat 3. The tropical storm put me without power/water ect for 10 days the kicker the farm across the street never lost power but they where out of town.
It really gets you at your wits end I pray for you and all up there. I have a cousin at the ( I think if I have my directions correct) south end of the island in Valley Stream she faired well but has friends not far from her who lost everything house car and all. But there okay which I said to her is the most important thing as things in time will get better it may take years but it will.
Ken not sure this will help but goto my site here click on the one that says trains and then goto full screen ( warning some are of bad train wrecks and trains caught in flooding) the website is at the bottom of this post at least you will be able to see some neat trains a fair amount are NYC and PRR
I have to agree with RT, You got to just hang in there. I have never been in a hurricane or a tropical storm but our house was pretty much wiped off of the planet by a level 5 tornado in 1990 and we were left with nothing but our lives and that was all we needed. We had neighbors not 800’ away that were just fine and all they did was complain about the debris in their yards. [#dots] It took us 11 months to rebuild and years for everything to return to some sort of normal for the 3 towns it hit.
The community churches, our neighbors and the red cross were a great help in our time of need.
At least you still have your family and trains. [Y] And yes it helps to VENT.
Best of luck and prayers for you and all the others suffering from Sandy’s path. [angel]
Ken, thanks for the report on Long Island. Prayers are sent for you and your neighbors. Glad you fared better than some.
Chief, those cotton pickers will do it everytime!
V8 Dennis, thanks for the tip about the train show at the church in Glendora. That is only a few blocks from where I live. I saw it once before a long time ago. I think they do it every year around Thanksgiving time. They had a lot of trains running and several gauges I believe. Can’t remember if they used any TMCC or DCS though.
Jeffrey, current gas price for regular here is 3.95 per gallon. They have to use a special type of gas here because of the smog regulations but right now they are using a winter grade which I think is available everywhere so why are we still paying higher prices than the rest of the country? Duh!
Set up for Cal Stewart is taking place today in Ontario California at the Covention Center. Show opens tomorrow at 9:00AM.
Ken, this is boarder line on our pot but it sure annoys me that we can help the whole world but not our own. Jeff, thanks, with your help I found their secret hiding place for the numbers. Not to worry I won’t tell anyone…S.J.
Hi everyone. Just checking in. Will catch up on the past weeks post later. I hope everyone is ok. We are still without electric heat internet or t.v. I’m sure hudsonjohn has you up to date. We are using our rv occasionally for lights fridge and electric fireplace but only in half hour incrememts every six hours or so. Other than that all is ok. Later.
Good luck Ken and others. We’ve been there over and over. I grew up in eastern NC. When I was young, seems we had at least two hurricanes a season. No power for days and days. Buildings damaged and trees to cut up. Last ones in NC flooded areas for days. Fran destoryed almost all the power infrastructure. Floyd flooded down east for weeks. Law Enforcement was ordered to not let people into their houses for weeks. Both of those, I was ordered to work as I was manager over issuing state vehicles. I sat in an office in Raleigh the State Capitol with no power for days. Then we have ice storms. Last big one, trees looked like tornatos hit. Some folks had no power for over a month [and it was freezing winter]. No power, no gas. If we have any indication of a storm, the norm is to fill lots of gas containers to run your generators. A lot of the folks now have all house generators and especially those on natural gas. I really feel for you. Sorry it was you but thank God it was not us again.
We got power back on about 6:45 last night. Tuesday was non stop wires/trees down. Spent Wednesday (12 hours of it) at work, + 1 hour to work, 45 minutes back, then 3 fire calls 2 of them major in scope. Yesterday another 11 hours of work, then prepped for going to Ocean County. We’re part of a Rescue Task Force, will be rotated 4 days out, 24 in. I’m scheduled for next week.
Town survived for the most part, no flood, major wind damage however. My brother firefighters in Breezy Point, NY and Long Beach Island, NJ have had it much worse than us. Moonachie, NJ and Hackensack have ben flooded out as a levy on the Passaic River broke. And the shore is just unspeakable.
So, yeah, there are others in this state worse off than I. We are ok.
[angel] for those in need…Will check back now that I have computer access and power…
Pat were talking about N.Y. [(-D] I know everwhere I have lived they will trim the trees if the limbs are touching the wires and then in most cases depending on who actually doing they only have to trim enough for the limbs are not touching the wires with a given growth rate in most cases 1 year I think. in other words they only have to trim back for 1 year growth but most if you ask will do more I have had them all but drop the tree on my request.
Prayers for all in the north east as you all need them wheather you have or don’t have electric and other things as it can change by them fixing one area it sometimes can cause another to go down ie triming trees on lines the relief some times will bend back enough to break the line seen that done that. I’m keeping in touch with my relatives up that way so far they did okay with all of this. Brother did fine and my cousins seem doing fine.
I’m with Pat on this one. In our “neck of the woods” the power company comes through every 3 years and cuts out anything that might interfere with electric lines, they do a great job and sometimes p$ss off some folks who don’t want their trees trimmed. My feeling is: go power company, it’s no fun sitting in a cold home because of a stupid limb that should have been trimmed. We live in the country and I’m more than happy to see those trucks whacking away at limbs that the average citizen won’t take care of. Just my .02.
Jon and Pat are right. Same here too. At least every 3 years. When the big storm hits, anything on the power line is cut by the power company or contractor. But when the big storms hit, anything on the customer side of the pole, is cut aloose until the customer fixes it.
Big thing. We all need to pray hard that the possible north easterner does not develop. Our weather people and national news are saying possible north easterner coming by NC and then going north to hit these already devastated people.
CBS had a thing on the young people after the storm. Well, we found that after Fran and Floyd, the little kids would come apart at any big wind blowing. They would just start crying. Adults will also suffer from this trauma.
Here the trees are trimmed back but there is still plenty of tree to take out power lines. And they do. We got the module layout ready for tomorrow so it will be a busy day Saturday and Sunday. Banilla is ready for a thingy ride…S.J.
Jon, I am with you guys on this. The elect co. has a right away where their lines are here and they will destroy anything they think will mess stuff up every two or three years. No matter how mad it may make my wife Sandy. [:O] We have a Gator tunnell where the lines are overhead and boy was she mad the last time they drove through and cut it all down. It just grows back. [:-^]
Well I had to watch over my mother from about noon til 8pm today. It involved quite a lot of walking around getting this and doing that. My ankle is definitely letting me know about it! And now my father tells me he needs me to do it again in the morning! I told him that depends on how I feel in the morning. If I’m not feeling up to it I’m not doing it. He wasn’t real happy with that but it’s my body, not his.
Well it’s time for me to call it a night. See y’all tomorrow, maybe.
Krapug I hope you make it through the storm. TheQ and I need to get a generator, but we keep putting it off - we are tredding on borrowed time. My problem is I can’t decide if I want to buy one that can power 1/2 the house, or to buy one that can power the whole house. We hope to be building a new home in the near future (kind of why I haven’t dropped the $$$ on one yet).
I don’t want to start a war here, but what I don’t understand are the videos of people dumpster diving. Seriously? You knew this storm was coming over a week ago, you were told it was going to be a once in 200 year event, and yet you did not prepare? Seriously?
Those poor people. A lot of people on foodstamps can’t buy groceries, because the stores can’t scan their food cards - that’s one reason. I hope the government there will tell stores to honor the cards for food items and get $$$ later. I also hope the power is back and that John is taking care of himself! Thanks for the link, Doug! I picked up a trackmaster Toby today as a lark - fun to watch it run on my desk. I also ordered a Williams Santa Fe Red/Silver F3 AA set for my birthday - it should be here by next Thursday [:)] Prayers for the potters and also for those dealing with the storm damage.
TARDIS is ready and we have greek yogurt or banilla - pick your poison! Or Blue Moons, chips and salsa [:)]
