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2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Non-Minnesotans arguing about the weather...

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From numerous people I know on LI, the south shore has been getting hammered. Lots of houses with 9 feet of water near the shore.

At my Alma mater near LI sound, our ship pier has taken a beating at low tide, they have been having lines, chains and wires breaking, but the ship is still doing alright. Haven't heard what the latest high tide has done for damage, but I imagine it has gotten a little worse there.

Guess we'll now know what happens when a hurricane makes a hit near NYC. Hope all of you guys in CT, NY metro and NJ especially stay safe, along with the others in the path.
 
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One half billion people without power in NY, NJ & CT. I am one of the lucky ones who never lost power although it flickered many times. Trees are down all over the place. There is no public transportation (LIRR, Metro-North, NJ Transit and NYC subway & buses) in the NY metro area. Tunnels are flooded and all of the bridges are still closed. All of the roads in the county I live in (Nassau) are closed. High tides last night were 9 feet above normal high tide. The entire south shore of Long Island from Merrick Rd/Montauk Highway (RT 27A) was flooded at last night's high tide. There are 50 houses in Breezy Point, Queens that are currently on fire. This storm now reaches from Illinois to the East Coast.
 
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The Pittsburgh area seems to have made it through the storm pretty clean. I believe there was some flooding in the eastern townships and some tree branches down. But we avoided the snow to the south of us and the major storm damage to the east of us.
 
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du78 said:
One half billion people without power in NY, NJ & CT.
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I think you are a few orders of magnitude off. Half billion would be all of the US, Canada, and much of Mexico combined. 50M would be all of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Conneticut, Deleware, and most of Virginia, combined. 5M would be more realistic, and that would be 1/4 of the entire state of New York.

I bet they mean half a million customers.

I know the damage is bad, but lets not over state it that bad.
 
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alfablue said:
I think you are a few orders of magnitude off. Half billion would be all of the US, Canada, and much of Mexico combined. 50M would be all of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Conneticut, Deleware, and most of Virginia, combined. 5M would be more realistic, and that would be 1/4 of the entire state of New York.

I bet they mean half a million customers.

I know the damage is bad, but lets not over state it that bad.
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Don't you know how news people work? They always extrapolate. Someone who has about 200 people on average in a week read their twitter feed is a blogger with over 10,000 viewers.
 
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alfablue said:
I think you are a few orders of magnitude off. Half billion would be all of the US, Canada, and much of Mexico combined. 50M would be all of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Conneticut, Deleware, and most of Virginia, combined. 5M would be more realistic, and that would be 1/4 of the entire state of New York.

I bet they mean half a million customers.

I know the damage is bad, but lets not over state it that bad.
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The total amount from this storm at peak I saw was 7.5M w/o power...
 
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I want to delete the previous post, but for some reason I can't.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Studying all the Potomac tributary flow rates and heights http://waterdata.usgs.gov/md/nwis/current/?type=flow&group_key=basin_cd to see if a wall of water will be heading to us. (The link is only the ones in Maryland.) Interestingly, some are already going down, whle others aren't.
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Susquehanna has a wall of water too. Wonder what all that fresh water will do to the Chesapeake Bay?
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Studying all the Potomac tributary flow rates and heights http://waterdata.usgs.gov/md/nwis/current/?type=flow&group_key=basin_cd to see if a wall of water will be heading to us. (The link is only the ones in Maryland.) Interestingly, some are already going down, whle others aren't.
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What affect (if any) will there me on the river if it warms up quickly and the snow in WV & western MD melts?
 
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joecct said:
Susquehanna has a wall of water too. Wonder what all that fresh water will do to the Chesapeake Bay?
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Chesapeake Bay, north of Annapolis is not salty. They call it brackish, but it is drinkable. My son lives in Essex and when I went out on his boat for the first time last year I noticed there wasn't a salt smell. Then I tasted it and it was, more or less, fresh.
 
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du78 said:
One half billion people without power in NY, NJ & CT. I am one of the lucky ones who never lost power although it flickered many times. Trees are down all over the place. There is no public transportation (LIRR, Metro-North, NJ Transit and NYC subway & buses) in the NY metro area. Tunnels are flooded and all of the bridges are still closed. All of the roads in the county I live in (Nassau) are closed. High tides last night were 9 feet above normal high tide. The entire south shore of Long Island from Merrick Rd/Montauk Highway (RT 27A) was flooded at last night's high tide. There are 50 houses in Breezy Point, Queens that are currently on fire. This storm now reaches from Illinois to the East Coast.
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Sounds like Merrick was a mess. My fiancee's mother lives well south of Merrick Road near the golf course; she weathered the storm with family in North Merrick but they're checking the house out now and I have to imagine there was awful flooding.
 
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Remember everyone, if you need recommendations on emergency standby power solutions, let me know. I'm here to help. :) ;)
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Remember everyone, if you need recommendations on emergency standby power solutions, let me know. I'm here to help. :) ;)
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Really? We're thinking about getting a standby system. What do you / I need to know?
 
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joecct said:
Really? We're thinking about getting a standby system. What do you / I need to know?
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What kW? I am not as familiar with residential/consumer sized versions, but if you're looking for something commercial sized (>150kW), I know quite a bit. My general recommendation is to stick with natural gas powered. If you go with diesel you have fuel storage issues that are now compounded by the use of biofuels. You can't just let diesel sit, unused, waiting for an emergency, it will go bad. I also wouldn't get anything gasoline powered, for similar reasons. It also helps that natural gas is and will be a cheaper fuel to run on, though in most applications there is a premium price put on the nat gas sets.
 
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