We Survived

[LadyTevar]

Power is still flickering, but never went out. 8inches of snow, State of Emergency both local and Federal, so no work for me as a "non-essential employee"

[frigidmagi]

Yay, snow day!

[Norseman]

Congratulations! I'm glad to hear you're all alrigh!

[Josh]

"non-essential employee"

They could find a slightly more polite way to put that.

Glad to hear y'all are okay.

[General Havoc]

Takes more than a Category 1 to break WV it appears.

Now hopefully those of us in the Pit of All that is Evil (New Jersey) are also all right.

[Hotfoot]

New Jersey is largely without power. ETA for restoration is about 4
-8 days. Millburn and Bernardsville are both very badly off. I have posted pictures of Millburn on my Facebook page. Alan Steve and myself are fine as are our families. my sister and alans parents in Manhattan have
power and Internet. I am currently at my parents place in Bernardsville because they have a generator the running 1 hour for every 4. New Jersey is a state of emergency with over 2,500,000 Consumers without power. Consumers include apartment complexes. estimates are over 60 percent of the state without power.

[Josh]

Takes more than a Category 1 to break WV it appears.

Now hopefully those of us in the ArmPit of All that is Evil (New Jersey) are also all right.

Fixed that for you.

[Batman]

And to think I complained about getting rained on on the way back from the supermarket. Glad you people are okay.

[Josh]

Y'know Tev, considering that you seem to have to post a 'We survived the latest attempt on our entire state by Mother Nature' thread every few months now, perhaps it's time to relocate.

[B4UTRUST]

Glad to hear that everyone made it through okay and in one piece. Hopefully power and utilities will be restored quickly without major complications. Here in lower VA we made it through without much going wrong. Some branches out of trees, some heavy winds and rains, some minor flooding in areas but nothing too major.

[LadyTevar]

ReLocate??? NEVER!!!!

There's still over 200,000 without power, including my entire home town. Thankfully, all the family is doing fine. Where I live the snow was washed away/melted by more rain, but higher elevations are still getting hit with it. The Power Co. is estimating Sunday before everyone's back up.

[LadyTevar]

Oh, and my Big Brother the paramedic was in New Jersey as of Sunday, one of thousands of medics who volunteered to be on stand by for the storm. Yet to hear from him, but I'm sure he's hard at work helping people.

[Batman]

What's so terrible about relocating? Yeah, I know, I haven't either, but I'm also not facing a major metereological disaster every other year.

[Josh]

What's so terrible about relocating? Yeah, I know, I haven't either, but I'm also not facing a major metereological disaster every other year.

We breed stubborn folk in this country. Most places you live there is some kind of natural disaster that'll wipe your house away like it was never there.

Reminds me of the old joke about Californians.

"If you build a million dollar house on a hill and a fire sweeps through on a Santa Anna wind, would you rebuild it? And when you do, then an earthquake comes along and levels it, would you rebuild it? And then when a mudslide pushes it straight off the hill and into the valley, would you rebuild it?"

It's like one of those "You might be a Redneck" jokes for Californians.

[General Havoc]

Please name for me the places in the world that do not suffer from any natural disaster that all of us Californians, East Coasters, and Tornado Alleyers should all move to.

[White Haven]

This leads quite clearly to the need for underground complexes in some tectonically-inactive region. Perhaps the moon.

[Josh]

Please name for me the places in the world that do not suffer from any natural disaster that all of us Californians, East Coasters, and Tornado Alleyers should all move to.

Haven't heard about tornadoes, earthquakes, or massive forest fires wiping out any trailer parks in Germany or France lately.

[Josh]

This leads quite clearly to the need for underground complexes in some tectonically-inactive region. Perhaps the moon.

I'm down with this.

Mars get many marsquakes?

[frigidmagi]

What's so terrible about relocating? Yeah, I know, I haven't either, but I'm also not facing a major metereological disaster every other year.

Relocating means the disasters win. Americans on average are too damn stubborn to allow themselves to be driven about by something as minor as a major natural disaster.

Although honestly by now shouldn't the peoples of Europe have figured out we are stubborn manics?

[General Havoc]

Please name for me the places in the world that do not suffer from any natural disaster that all of us Californians, East Coasters, and Tornado Alleyers should all move to.

Haven't heard about tornadoes, earthquakes, or massive forest fires wiping out any trailer parks in Germany or France lately.

You're right. Germany and France just suffer from occasional bouts of Nazism.

And frankly, I can take shelter from an Earthquake.

[Josh]

Please name for me the places in the world that do not suffer from any natural disaster that all of us Californians, East Coasters, and Tornado Alleyers should all move to.

Haven't heard about tornadoes, earthquakes, or massive forest fires wiping out any trailer parks in Germany or France lately.

You're right. Germany and France just suffer from occasional bouts of Nazism.

And frankly, I can take shelter from an Earthquake.

Game, set, match.

[Charon]

I'm pretty happy with where I live. We just get the occasional blizzard and the odd tornado every decade or so.

Because some people were asking, I'm fine. We had a little bit of rain related flooding in the area and a few people lost power but I was not among them. I'm just happy a tree didn't fall on my car.

[LadyTevar]

Mom has her power back, and a belated Halloween Trick or Treat is set for tomorrow. As I have 200 pieces of candy that weren't handed out, I'm using them as an excuse to go spend a few hours with my Mommy :)

My big brother is now in Brentwood NY, staying at one of the Fire Depts and already making ambulance runs.

[Karrick]

What's so terrible about relocating? Yeah, I know, I haven't either, but I'm also not facing a major metereological disaster every other year.

Relocating means the disasters win. Americans on average are too damn stubborn to allow themselves to be driven about by something as minor as a major natural disaster.

Although honestly by now shouldn't the peoples of Europe have figured out we are stubborn manics?

I've had two different textbooks on environmental hazards and one generic introductory earth science textbook at this point. All three of them list Long Island, NY as one of the places that fall under the heading "Why the fuck do we allow people to build houses here?"
I'm reasonably certain that California at least has laws about building directly on top of fault lines. Stop people from literally building their houses on sand in a location that is constantly having its beaches eroded by storm surge (and frequently catastrophically so)? Perish the thought. [/rant]

You're right. Germany and France just suffer from occasional bouts of Nazism.

And frankly, I can take shelter from an Earthquake.

Ah, but Nazis go away when you shoot them.

Still without power, even/odd license plate gas rationing in effect.

[Cynical Cat]

Nice to see you back Karrick.