[Info-vax] [OT follow-up] Hurricane Sandy and hurricane frequency over time

[William Pechter]

In article <00ADB98F.6E83F03D at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 <VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>In article <d28352dd-806a-4f0d-ad4d-96b0d2d63b8a at googlegroups.com>, AEF
><spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
>>{...snip...}
>>That's to make up for all the insulting jokes about New Jersey! There is one I 
>>like: "Oh, you from Jersey too? What exit?" I love it. I grew up in New Jersey 
>>and now live here again, and you really can get a pretty good idea of were 
>>someone lives by their exit number.
>
>Perhaps, in Northern NJ, suburbs of NYC.
>

Pretty much works in Central down through Ocean County.

>
>
>>This was more than a flood. Something like 80% to 90% of customers lost power 
>>in a huge swath of the area; many, if not most, for over a week! Subway and 
>>automobile tunnels completely flooded! One of them was recently shut down for 
>>long term repairs. Mass transit systems completely shut down! Lower Manhattan 
>>flooded big time and closed down. The Jersey shore in shambles! Roller
>coasters 
>>swept away!
>
>It's a far more densely populated area than those Bill was referring to.
>
>
>
>>I think this being probably the first time something of this magnitude has hit 
>>the East Coast also may have something to do with it. 
>
>Remember too that Sandy's landfall was also coupled with another storm to
>the west and an astronomical high tide.  Natural gas, used for heating a
>large percentage of homes in NJ, was turned off too in Sandy's aftermath
>to prevent gas fires and explosions in severely damaged areas.  While it
>wasn't yet the dead of winter, the late October evenings got mighty cold
>here.  I was fortunate, I didn't have my gas service turned off, but the
>heat (FHA) doesn't work without electricity.  I boiled large water pots
>to place in the remote rooms of the house and my wife baked food in the
>over to help warm the evenings.  Many others where not as fortunate with
>heating options.
>
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>

Yup 13 days of no power and heat and a wife on kidney dialysis wasn't
fun. Sandy was a bitch.  Been through storms before but the surge on
that one was somewhat worse than anything I've seen since I moved here
in the '60s.  Stom of at least the last 1/2 century anyway.


High tide+storm surge+bad prep by JCP&L was ugly. 

Ended up in North Jersey after 5 days when her father's house got power
back. The whole substation here flooded out and even though we had
underground wires in my development we were among the last locations on
line.

We took two days longer than the folks with overhead lines took around
here...  Never could figure out how we were last.

Bill

>Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.


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