They've just announced the bay might meet the Atlantic Ocean.
Based on past experience, when a storm hits at high tide during a full moon, the bay will meet the ocean.
im in ct. we hould be reasonably ok. its people south of us who are in real danger
I’ve got a natural gas generator and junk food, so I’m good. The two biggest problems I have is my husband being home for two more days and the dogs not wanting to go out in the rain. This will drive me crazy. I generally love Mondays.
There was a great podcast on www.thesurvivalpodcast.com recently about how to keep your food cold in a power outage.
After you lose power, wrap the fridge in sleeping bags, blankets, etc. to keep it cold. Unwrap once or twice a day to take out the food you will need and then re-wrap.
Get an inverter of about 800-1000 watts. Most new fridges run on less than 750 watts. Use your car battery while idling the engine and an extension cord to run the fridge for a couple of hours per day. Keep unwrapped when you have power so the fridge can dump the heat.
This approach using an inverter is way cheaper than running a generator.
Sorry I did not have time to provide a link.
Architecture in the Northeast doesn’t understand horizontal rain like we do in the South. Snow loads? You bet. but driven rain, sideways, for 3 hours? Nope. It’s gonna seep around window seals and door jambs, etc.
If you put water up against a NJ/ NY/ CT residential structure at 40-50 MPH for 3-5 hours, and it is gonna get in. Too much hydraulic pressure, and too many gaps/ weaknesses in the seals and structure.
NIce.... thanks for the good post.
This is one thing I'm not worried about with Sandy.
Good advise ets. Florida native here bro!
What do you suggest for Manhattan residents living on high floors?
At least our electricity comes through underground cables.
They've just announced the bay might meet the Atlantic Ocean.
Based on past experience, when a storm hits at high tide during a full moon, the bay will meet the ocean.
And don’t drive through flooded roads!
DATA FROM AN AIR FORCE RESERVE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT INDICATE NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE TO THE INTENSITY OF SANDY HAS OCCURRED THIS AFTERNOON...AND THE CENTRAL PRESSURE HAS REMAINED NEARLY STEADY AT 951-952 MB SINCE THE PREVIOUS ADVISORY. PEAK 700 MB FLIGHT-LEVEL WINDS OF 78 KT WERE MEASURED IN THE SOUTHERN QUADRANT...BUT NO SFMR-ADJUSTED SURFACE WINDS OF HURRICANE FORCE WERE DETECTED IN ANY QUADRANT. HOWEVER...GIVEN THE EXTREMELY LARGE WIND FIELD OF SANDY...IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE AIRCRAFT MISSED SOME OF THE POCKETS OF STRONGER SURFACE WINDS. THEREFORE...THE INITIAL INTENSITY IS BEING MAINTAINED AT 65 KT.
BTTT
My sister-in-law lives on a canal just off the Great South Bay. This mornings high tide saw water already spilling into her back yard.
So my advice to her was to sandbag the doors, grab the cats and evacuate.
The good news is that she took my advice.
The bad news is that she and her cats are staying at my house.
You see, this replaces Benghazi on the front page.
what kills most folks is the flooding...make sure you can get upstairs and carry an ax to get out if it goes higher..