Hurricane Sandy
Oct. 30th, 2012 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyWe still have power, so I figured I should update my blog. October got a bit too busy for me but I will try to do a catch-up post.
Bear and I got off easy with Sandy. We stocked up on food and had flashlights and everything but the most we got is heavy, heavy wind, horizontal rain and occasional flickers of power. This morning we went to check on Bear's car. We tried to park it as far from big trees as we could and it was alright. The back of his passenger side mirror got blown off, but that was about it. There were at least three trees lying across the side streets where we parked, so we were very, very lucky. Our cell phone service is a bit crappy right now, but at least we could call my parents a bit earlier. So compared to many, we rode out the storm well.
My parents, on the other hand, are having an adventure. They live in New York's Zone A, which had mandatory evacuation orders. Last year, during Hurricane Irene, when I lived with them, we evacuated. But this year, they decided to stay. Mostly, my Dad didn't want to believe it would be that bad. They did stock up on food and water. Mama just wanted to be able to control the situation and not worry about it. So even as I argued with them on Sunday, trying to get them to come to my apartment (which is in Zone C), they didn't want to leave. I also tried to convince them to move the books in the ground floor library to the second floor but Papa only did that when they actually saw the waters.
They lost power sometime last evening and their community did get flooded. My parents lucked out. The water came 5 inches to their door and in the backyard it was knee high. My Mom put a lot of old jackets under garage door, which did get all wet but the water did not get into the garage. The row of houses across from them got flooded in their studio apartments, still has power but no gas. So there will be a lot of neighborly sharing. They won't have power for maybe as much as ten days.
We can't even get in contact with Bear's parents. Most of Long Island is without power so they probably don't have it and their cells just go to email. We got in touch briefly with his brother but that's about it.
Tomorrow morning we will also go check on my grandparents who live in Zone A in Coney Island. I talked to them Sunday and they did have enough food and water. Their phones are probably flooded. We couldn't drive there today since the conditions were still uncertain and too many emergency vehicles (and trees) in the roads.But I definitely want to try tomorrow.
My friend Yeva's apartment was flooded, she lost a lot of stuff. Good things is that she is Ok and was able to leave and get to her parent's building even as she had to walk in moving water waist high. And she lives in Zone B (in the apartment where we waited out Hurricane Irene last year).
I have no work the whole week - I just read that the University decided to just cancel classes for the whole week and Local College is also off tomorrow. So it is like a mini-vacation just with worry. Public transportation is shut down - well, the buses are back in limited way, but we don't know when the subways will be back. New York is just too quiet. They even cancelled the Halloween parade.
Bear and I got off easy with Sandy. We stocked up on food and had flashlights and everything but the most we got is heavy, heavy wind, horizontal rain and occasional flickers of power. This morning we went to check on Bear's car. We tried to park it as far from big trees as we could and it was alright. The back of his passenger side mirror got blown off, but that was about it. There were at least three trees lying across the side streets where we parked, so we were very, very lucky. Our cell phone service is a bit crappy right now, but at least we could call my parents a bit earlier. So compared to many, we rode out the storm well.
My parents, on the other hand, are having an adventure. They live in New York's Zone A, which had mandatory evacuation orders. Last year, during Hurricane Irene, when I lived with them, we evacuated. But this year, they decided to stay. Mostly, my Dad didn't want to believe it would be that bad. They did stock up on food and water. Mama just wanted to be able to control the situation and not worry about it. So even as I argued with them on Sunday, trying to get them to come to my apartment (which is in Zone C), they didn't want to leave. I also tried to convince them to move the books in the ground floor library to the second floor but Papa only did that when they actually saw the waters.
They lost power sometime last evening and their community did get flooded. My parents lucked out. The water came 5 inches to their door and in the backyard it was knee high. My Mom put a lot of old jackets under garage door, which did get all wet but the water did not get into the garage. The row of houses across from them got flooded in their studio apartments, still has power but no gas. So there will be a lot of neighborly sharing. They won't have power for maybe as much as ten days.
We can't even get in contact with Bear's parents. Most of Long Island is without power so they probably don't have it and their cells just go to email. We got in touch briefly with his brother but that's about it.
Tomorrow morning we will also go check on my grandparents who live in Zone A in Coney Island. I talked to them Sunday and they did have enough food and water. Their phones are probably flooded. We couldn't drive there today since the conditions were still uncertain and too many emergency vehicles (and trees) in the roads.But I definitely want to try tomorrow.
My friend Yeva's apartment was flooded, she lost a lot of stuff. Good things is that she is Ok and was able to leave and get to her parent's building even as she had to walk in moving water waist high. And she lives in Zone B (in the apartment where we waited out Hurricane Irene last year).
I have no work the whole week - I just read that the University decided to just cancel classes for the whole week and Local College is also off tomorrow. So it is like a mini-vacation just with worry. Public transportation is shut down - well, the buses are back in limited way, but we don't know when the subways will be back. New York is just too quiet. They even cancelled the Halloween parade.