ot: natural disasters, east v west coast

[scaredyclassic]

always kinda take a ribbing from folks back east about living in anatural “natural disaster zone”. seems kind of strange that the east coast is having a big giant natural disaster before the west. i’d have thought we’d be leveled by an earthquake before they were swamped with seawater.

[The-Shoveler]

You were knocking on wood while
you were typing right ?

Wonder how “spdrun” is doing?

Probably won’t see many posts from him for a few days.

[Coronita]

What am I going to do today and tomorrow? The stock market is closed for two days!!!!!!

Two days!!!!

[spdrun]

Hi! Fine here for now.

Parts of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn are getting hit by storm surge and some low-lying areas are flooded — luckily I don’t live in an area below sea level. The East River is just about at sidewalk level and sloshing over about a block from my place, down a fairly steep hill. The highway along the river is closed of course.

No strong wind nor serious rain as of yet. That comes later around 4-5 pm this afternoon.

[poorgradstudent]

Talking about the East Coast as one area for natural disasters isn’t very precise.

Florida? Yeah, don’t live there. Your house will get eaten by a hurricane sooner or later.

But places like Virginia or Boston? They don’t really get nailed by tropical storms very often.

Of course, talking about the west coast the same way isn’t accurate either. San Fran has way more risks of a Big One than San Diego does.

[SK in CV]

[quote=flu]What am I going to do today and tomorrow? The stock market is closed for two days!!!!!!

Two days!!!![/quote]

Forex is open 🙂

I swear that euro wants to go down a nickel.

[The-Shoveler]

[quote=spdrun]Hi! Fine here for now.

Parts of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn are getting hit by storm surge and some low-lying areas are flooded — luckily I don’t live in an area below sea level. The East River is just about at sidewalk level and sloshing over about a block from my place, down a fairly steep hill. The highway along the river is closed of course.

No strong wind nor serious rain as of yet. That comes later around 4-5 pm this afternoon.[/quote]

Good to hear, Keep us posted if possible.

Good to have someone on the ground, there is so much hype on these things in the media.

[no_such_reality]

[quote=poorgradstudent]Talking about the East Coast as one area for natural disasters isn’t very precise.

Florida? Yeah, don’t live there. Your house will get eaten by a hurricane sooner or later.

But places like Virginia or Boston? They don’t really get nailed by tropical storms very often.

Of course, talking about the west coast the same way isn’t accurate either. San Fran has way more risks of a Big One than San Diego does.[/quote]

Huh? NYC city area alone has been affected often with severe damage 84 times in the last 200 years by Tropical Storms and Hurricanes.

Last year was Hurricane Irene.

2003 Hurricane Isabel.

1999 was Hurricane Floyd.

1996 was Hurricane Bertha.

1991 The “Perfect Storm”, with movie of same name.

1985 Hurricane Gloria.

1976 Hurricane Belle.

…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_hurricanes

[Navydoc]

My brother closed on the home he bought in Rehoboth Beach on Friday. Talk about timing.

[SK in CV]

[quote=Navydoc]My brother closed on the home he bought in Rehoboth Beach on Friday. Talk about timing.[/quote]

CNN was just reporting from there. Nasty.

[sdduuuude]

We have the Chargers.

I can’t imagine a bigger disaster than that.

[spdrun]

Good to hear, Keep us posted if possible.

Well, still have power here. Utilities are mostly underground. My street is oddly calm, since it runs east-west, has a bunch of 6-story buildings on it, and the wind is primarily blowing north-south right now.

East River level is rising again — it’s fully overflowed to cover the walkway along the river at this point. Lots of flooding and trees down in NJ (especially South Jersey) and Long Island from what I’m hearing. Also a crane collapsed on 57th St, and is dangling broken down the side of a building.

[The-Shoveler]

Seems like NJ taking the brunt of it so far, as long as it moves on and does not just sit there and churn (like in the movie) maybe it won’t get that bad (I hope anyway), Anyway I guess you guys got another hour before it hits NY.

Good luck

[spdrun]

Looks like the East River freeway is now completely flooded 🙁

[sdduuuude]

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