Belle Harbor
and Rockaway Park
And I thought the nor’easter that hit in December 1992 was bad . . .
Posted on 11/03/2012 6:08:53 AM PDT by tobyhill
Survivors of Superstorm Sandy welcomed glimmers of hope as services resumed in some areas, but for those quivering in dark and unheated homes, relief was not coming fast enough.
About 2.7 million customers remained without power Saturday across 15 states and the District of Columbia. And some may be in the dark for another week, according to utility officials.
Frustrated residents, worried about plunging temperatures, said companies are not working fast enough to restore power.
"The power company sent us an e-mail alert saying we'll have to wait more days," said Pankaj Purohit, whose apartment is next to a marina in Jersey City, New Jersey. "We have already been waiting for five days."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Sandy: category 1
Katrina: category 5
Sorry - should done my homework better. Katrina was down to a category 3 by the time it made land...
The Saffir-Simpson scale has flaws. You can’t just look at windspeed for the potential severity of a storm.
Katrina had Cat 5 surge.
Gas Stations are kinda like a franchise,if the owener dont want to install a gen its his call.
Bump
Also hard to pass along the cost of a generator to the customers when you only make a few pennies per gallon.
Yes, I understand that. But I presume that the franchising parent company wants the station to stay in business, yes? Now that this storm has exposed a flaw in their ability to sell fuel, I think that the franchiser and franchisees may work together to come up with a backup power solution. Because there will always be another storm at some point.
This was more than just a hurricane. It was a hurricane merging with a nor’easter. Those outside the northeastern states may not be familiar with this kind of storm — think of it as kind of a “reverse hurricane.” Instead of bringing tropical moisture and pressure system coming from the southeast, it’s North Atlantic moisture, Arctic air masses, and a rotation from the northeast. We have to deal with these storms every year — some severe, some not so bad — although they usually don’t start so early in the year. These two systems collided and combined with a cold air front coming down from Canada. Sandy was rather a unique storm from a meteorological POV.
There is no power on the entire Rockaway Peninsula. Word is they’ll be bringing in ‘voting trucks’ on Tuesday.
Yes, but the storm surge was cat 5. That is what did the most horrific damage.
Belle Harbor
and Rockaway Park
And I thought the nor’easter that hit in December 1992 was bad . . .
À 10,000 kw generator costs no more than $1200. More than enough to run multiple pumps, lights, office etc.
Back in 1968 and or 1969 people in Northeastern South Carolina and surrounding areas were without power in some cases for MONTHS following an ice storm. The plant where I worked shut down for a week and the initial effort was all geared toward getting people back to work. Some of those out in the country simply went back to living like their grandparents had lived. Those in the towns were worse off. One vice president of the company I worked for had to pack up his family and go to another state for weeks. It has been more than forty years and there has not been another ice storm approaching what we had those two years. The second one was the worst, it wrecked so many huge oak trees that it was months before we stopped hearing chain saws literally around the clock. When the ice melted from the roads you could drive for many miles and not see a single utility pole still standing.
With the old pumps forty years ago it was possible to open the housing and run a v-belt from a small gasoline engine to a pulley on the pump and pump gasoline. With the new pumps that is probably not possible.
Five days is nothing. Just saying. I’ve been without power for two weeks due to an ice storm. I doubt anybody is dawdling given all the attention the problem is getting. It takes time to repair extensive damage to power lines, poles and transformers. There is no getting around that.
that’s a great price, should buy one......
Don’t buy more kw than you really need because keeping enough gas on hand is a major challenge, esp. if you have air conditioners to run. Yankees have it far easier this way.
Thanks, needed that !
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