Northeastern U.S. Members Be Safe.

[guidofatherof5]

I just saw that a lot of Hackensack NJ is under water. Anyone heard from Greg's garters? He lives there.

[RedSidedSPR]

I just saw that a lot of Hackensack NJ is under water. Anyone heard from Greg's garters? He lives there.

Yeah that looks rough..

[guidofatherof5]

Greg'sgarters is safe and still has power and I just got a call from Rhea(dracha). She and her family is safe in Brooklyn and they also still have power.
Anyone heard from sirtalis01(Julio) he's in Queens. We also have a Staten Island member.

[ConcinusMan]

I'm in New Jersey and I'm delaying my brumation. I brumate my snakes in a wine cooler and I don't want to start brumation and then have the power go out. So I was going to start brumating on Nov. 1st but now might start on Nov. 2nd or 3rd. The storm's supposed to make landfall right over NJ tomorrow during the evening.

They are estimating 10 million+ without power from Sandy.

And sure enough, Greg's power did go out. Still out. Post offices and businesses are boarded up and without power.

My mistake. I didn't see Steve's post before I posted. I must have misunderstood Greg and it's just surrounding businesses/areas that are without power. He just sent me a text. His house and a pizzaria have power and that's about it. I'll try to see what's up with Julio.

EDIT: can't get through to Julio. "all circuits are busy" message.

[ConcinusMan]

Unfortunately it's not. I learned of this last night, that the picture had been digitally altered to sensationalize hurricane Sandy.

FAKES: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-575...re-ridiculous/

I thought that photo looked familiar, like it's been around a while. I have seen a bunch of crap out there, pics and stuff from past storms being passed off as Sandy, but these are real, near as I can tell:

Postcards From An Underwater New York | ZeroHedge

I snapped this from a screen shot late last night:



Plenty of live webcams still working at earthcam.com

Current info can be found here. Don't forget to zoom in on the area and try checking different boxes for lots of other overlays/information/live webcam feeds.(note that many of these stopped updating and aren't live at all) This page is updated regularly: Google Crisis Map

[guidofatherof5]

Spoke with LeAnn(count dewclaw) and Le Ann (Mommy2many) Both families are fine. Mommy2many is without power.

[ConcinusMan]

Tried Julio again. Even though it's mobile to mobile I get a fast busy signal. I imagine the cell towers serving the area probably aren't powered, if not damaged.

[Greg'sGarters]

Yeah I still have power. Water isn't really a problem where I live (top of the hill) but there is a huge hill in Hackensack that leads down to the city and then ends with the river. I'm going to check it out tomorrow. My house still has power but I think that no one else around me has power. I went down to the end of my street today, and power lines were across the road, a light was just dangling by a thin piece of wood and 2 big trees fell and one of them came within 2 inches of hitting a brand new BMW. Fortunately all the trees fell into the road and didn't hit houses. My house probably draws 5x as much power as anyone else's house on my block but I still never lose power. I'll post up pictures ASAP I'll start a new thread. Although all this morning, I had a TERRIBLE phone signal. I could only talk to people with iPhones through iMessage because my WiFi was still up.

[ConcinusMan]

Apparently Shannon is OK (in PA). Didn't get any details but she joked about a shark swimming around in her front yard.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Has anybody heard from wayne yet?