A PaulB thread? Wow, I am honored, I didn't know anyone ever read this stuff I ramble about. Most of it I make up anyway. :facepalm:
You did not hear much about Long Island because Jersey and Statin Island fared so much worse. Here it is mostly no power, or gas with trees toppled all over the place. If the tree didn't go through your home and you had no fires all is well. I am not sure how many people here still don't have power, it is coming on block by block. I lent out my generator after my power was restored. On almost every block is a huge oak tree laying on the roof or the home is crushed.
I don't know if I still have a boat but in the scheme of things, that is insignificant, I have a roof and no damage.
I have a generator and before the storm hit I bought and borowed cans and filled whatever I could with gas so I had intermittant power to kep the heat on and the tank. I ran it for 4 hours than off for four hours.
Most people with generators ran out of gas. My power was restored early this morning.
There were some gas lines 2 miles long, now there is no gas in NY.
Gas cans were impossable to find. I went to an auto supply for a can and he said we are out. I said what is that big blue can? He said that is a water can and you can't use it for gas.
Like, does the gas know what kind of can it is in? I took a magic marker and wrote "GAS" on the can and my generator didn't notice one bit.
My FIOS for some reason doesn't have power so I have a car battery powering it now so I can get on the internet.
My tank did not suffer any losses and the only slight problem was heat. The temp went down to the high 60s but it was not a problem. As I mentioned, that is not important when I look around and see so many people with crushed homes. The fish huddled around the fireclown for heat.
The shores of Long Island got hit bad with tidal surge. My friend lives on the south shore and his next door neighbor has a large boat through his home. The water rose about 12' there from the sea.
My Grand Daughter is here with us and as I said they had to carry her down 16 floors and walk about 150 blocks to get to someplace with power.
I have solar panels on my roor but they do not work unless they sence electric power from the grid so they are useless in a blackout.
I am a survivor and am always very well prepared. I had plenty of water, gas, food and I trimmed the tree branches that I knew would fall. But I live in the center of the Island where the damage was the least.
Lower Manhattan is a disaster and will take years to recover fully because the water that flooded the tunnels and subways was salt water from New York Harbor so that equipment is ruined now and must be replaced.
It can't just be dried out.
I know the memorial pool for 9/11 was filled up to the sidewalk with water from NY harbor but that can be fixed.
I feel so bad for the people here now without heat because it is cold now and will get colder tonight.
I think we are supposed to get a Noreaster later next week
My neighbor sold her car and was supposed to be picked up yesterday. I siphoned the gas out of it before it was towed away. My fish stayed warm by huddling around the fireclowns.
