Sandy

CoalHeat · Post by **CoalHeat** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 4:07 pm

Here in southwest Sussex county, NJ we currently have wind from the northeast at 24 MPH with gusts to 33 MPH. Rainfall has been light, .41 inch so far. Strangely enough the power is still on, although it has flickered a few times.

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I'm On Fire · Post by **I'm On Fire** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 4:12 pm

Wood'nCoal wrote:Here in southwest Sussex county, NJ we currently have wind from the northeast at 24 MPH with gusts to 33 MPH. Rainfall has been light, .41 inch so far. Strangely enough the power is still on, although it has flickered a few times.

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Let's hope it stays this way.

samhill · Post by **samhill** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 4:15 pm

I know most of you have gone thru this before & recall some of the posts from Richard & his friends & I hope everyone takes this one seriously from everything I'm seeing. I know even here French Creek was already high & we really just got what was heading East & are just starting to get the very fringe parts of Sandy, stay safe & don't take any chances.

KLook · Post by **KLook** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 4:16 pm

Hard to believe but my brother and a friend drove right down through all that yesterday to Ahoske, North Carolina to deer hunt!!

Crazy Mainers you know,

just a little blow, whats the big deal? At least he got a nice one this morning. May have to eat it this week!

Kevin

Post by **Richard S.** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 4:23 pm

VigIIPeaBurner wrote:Almost forgot to secure the empty ash can

You get the award for the biggest LOL of the day.

mozz · Post by **mozz** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 4:35 pm

Here is the PP&L outage map in NEPA. Early this morning it was a few hundred, right now it is showing 11,000 without power. Here in the foot of Wayne county, I am really surprised, no trees down yet, rain very little, but steady wind increasing all day.
https://www.pplelectric.com/my-account/outage-cen ... e-map.aspx

echos67 · Post by **echos67** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 5:00 pm

Richard S, thanks, Yanche set me up with a link to a previous thread and I decided I know enough about electric to make a mess of hooking it to the panel myself so I will have an electrician wire mine in so it meets code and is safe. Fortunately my job puts me in close contact with several different companies to get pricing from.

38k plus without electric here through BGE (Baltimore Gas Electric) still have it here at the house for now.
Steady winds now I'm guessing 25-30 mph with stronger gusts, tonight it is supposed to increase substantially though. Rain has been solid since last night around 10pm and they are estimating 8-12" in total

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Post by **Rob R.** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 5:56 pm

No rain yet, but the North wind has really picked up. I just came down from the attic. My house has a large gable vent in the North end, and a much smaller vent in the South end. It seemed prudent to block off most of the vent on the North end and prevent the wind from howling through there...it was literally strong enough to blow my hat off. Many years ago a Nor'easter managed to put a snow drift in that end of the attic, so I'm not messing around this time.

I hope everyone pulls through this one alright, it sure looks bad in Maryland right now.

I'm On Fire · Post by **I'm On Fire** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 6:05 pm

My power went out. I sat in the chair looking at the lights, contemplating firing the generator up. By the time I got up, but my boots and coat on the power came back on. Hopefully it was a fluke and it won't go out.

EarthWindandFire · Post by **EarthWindandFire** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 6:29 pm

Maybe we should have a coalpail.com Twitter feed...?

lsayre · Post by **lsayre** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 6:30 pm

I believe landfall occurred at 6:00 PM EST. I recon that means NJ should be in the eye about now.

david78 · Post by **david78** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 6:42 pm

It's pouring the snow here in my part of WV; about 4" on the ground now. It's the heavy, wet stuff. 33 degrees, windy but not too bad. All the leaves are off the trees so maybe the electric will stay on. Generator ready to go if it doesn't.

jpete · Post by **jpete** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 6:46 pm

I feel for you WV guys. At least you don't have to shovel rain!

Going to take a drive around 8pm to see just how high the tide will get. So far, the lights flickered once but no sign it's going to go out.

GoodProphets · Post by **GoodProphets** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 6:48 pm

We have 9pm to 6am curfews for mon and tues all around us in SEPA.

jpete, if you plan on driving near water, I would second think that.
Lets all be safe, and make sure we are kept alive and warm.

Lights flickering quite often here, but so far still have power

I have wifi hotspot on my phone, so I can surf a few hours if needed.

grizzly2 · Post by **grizzly2** » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 7:00 pm

Just a puffy moderate breaze and a few sprinkles here in Whippleville so far. If the projected path shown on the weather cannel is correct PA and NY could get hit prety hard. fortunately for those of us in the far north the wind is projected to drop quite a bit as the storm travels across land. We may get sustained winds of about 35 and gusts to 60. Good luck all.