Quote (HoR_Rahl @ Oct 31 2012 08:38am)
sorry to hear that. It was a little chilly here yesterday, I even went so far as to put on my Muay Thai hoody(love this thing). I've been through a lot of hurricanes. Having no power really sucks, especially if it's not something you prepare to go through. I have a generator(actually it's my parents house) that's adapted to propane and can run the house for over a month. They live about 20 minutes up the road so I would go there for a hurricane. Before we had that setup and went through a hurricane, it sucked, power was out for a couple days and it just plain sucked. It was in summer so it was the heat that was bothersome not the cold. I feel for ya man.
Quote (Legolas_RH @ Oct 31 2012 10:47am)
Still without power, am taking refuge in Philly with my brother now. It was cold too, tough to get water, stores that were open took advantage and charged more (mostly delis open, 1 shop rite with a generator was open but all the water was bought). Found a subway sandwich place open ~approx a 7 mile walk from home and thats what I was eating until just a couple hours ago. I underestimated the storm and should have stocked more food. I was good on water though and neighbors were really helpful.
Work is without power for at least while. It'll be tough to commute by NJ transit/path/light rail in any of the next couple of days. Have a few monthly reports due and remote access is non-existent.
hope everyone is safe otherwise.
I know technically it was a Tropical Storm by the time it hit Ohio, and no longer a Hurricane, but I'm still considering it a Hurricane. I never been apart of anything like that on Monday night into Tuesday morning. The winds were sustained at ~50 miles an hour and gusting up to 70+ mph. Trees have been uprooted all over town and many houses have tree damage from trees falling on them. I have now been out of power for over 36 hours, and judging my the outage map on First Energy's website the # of reported outages in my area keep going up, so the ulitity company workforce is still concentrating on the city of Cleveland and not the suburbs yet. Also, I heard a lot of the utility workforce headed on East to help the east coast repair and rebuild after the Storm came through, so we are short handed as it is here.
I saw the transformer on the pole in front of my house blow up. I was laying in bed Monday night trying to get some sleep even though the winds outside were insane and making so much noise with the trees, brush etc. While laying in bed I heard 2 very loud BUZZ sounds, and then outside my window, the entire sky turned a lightning blue, then all the power went out. That happened at 11:45. On the news prior that night I remember they said there was no lightning from this storm, but I swear to god I saw multiple blue flashes light up the sky during the night, so I'm guesing those were sourced from other pole transformers blowing up around the city. I even saw a huge orange explosion, sourced from the ground, and I'm guessing that was another explosion of some sort. After the huge orange glow, I saw a flickered orange from over the trees, so I am assuming it started some sort of fire.
It was my first hurricane. And like I said, I live in OHIO, this stuff doesn't happen here so no one was prepared. I'm prepping for another night without power tonight
E: By the way, Monday night I was watching the news before the power went, and the waves generated on Lake Erie crashing up on shore were the worst I've ever seen in my life from Lake Erie. It was certainly quite something to be a part of and something I won't ever forget. When Irene hit the east coast, it's effects on Cleveland here were minimal. But Sandy, was insane here.
This post was edited by MrMoJoRising on Oct 31 2012 11:10am