<p>boysx3 This is the only report I have gotten from my son in DC</p>
<p><a href=“Hurricanehorse - YouTube”>Hurricanehorse - YouTube;
<p>It was shot right down the street from his house. Is this your kid?</p>
<p>It seems like it would be easier to build cheap houses and then rebuild them after a huge storm. I’m sure that the building that I’m in could withstand those kinds of winds but the typical house here couldn’t. That’s like the snow that we had a few years ago where roofs had six to ten feet of heavy, wet snow on them. They might be able to handle it but you’d be better off not having to find out.</p>
<p>SteveMA - I can’t speak to old buildings, but current ASCE7 standards require designs to hurricane force winds on the eastern seaboard. The tip of FL designs to 150 mph, upper eastern seaboard is about 120 mph, I think. As you drop down into the Carolina’s it’s about 140 mph. As you move inland those values decrease. But that’s not really meant to be “sustained wind”.</p>
<p>Thank you! I have wonderful landlords who live above me, so I should be fine.</p>
<p>At this point I would really love to know if my workplace has either flooded or lost power (right on the harbor so we knew that the potential for flood was there) and if I have work tomorrow. The MBTA hasn’t said when they’ll start running again.</p>
<p>BCEagle - building so that the frame of the house is meant to sustain the winds is not that much more expensive and it’s well worth it if you live in an area prone to storms.</p>
<p>For folks with Massachusetts friends and relatives, outage maps for the two largest power providers in MA:</p>
<p>[Outage</a> Map](<a href=“http://outage.nstar.com/outage/]Outage”>http://outage.nstar.com/outage/)</p>
<p><a href=“https://www1.nationalgridus.com/PowerOutageMap-MA-RES[/url]”>Test;
<p>These sites update their outage maps every 15 minutes. You can assume that anyone who has lost power could be in the dark for days, if not a week or more, unless they’re on the route to essential services such as a hospital, or in the midst of a heavily populated area.</p>
<p>Stay safe, everyone!</p>
<p>Stay safe, everyone.</p>
<p>Here near Chitown we are have flood warnings along Lake Michigan shore beginning later tonight. We are told to expect 25ft. waves. I am not close.</p>
<p>There are some photos on the “Hurricane Sandy” facebook page of flooded towns–Atlantic City being one of them.</p>
<p>Looking at the Satellite on the NWS website it looks like the eye is centered over the NJ coast right now.</p>
<p>Wind here in central nj is really bad - just keeps getting worse. transformers all around us are blowing out.l</p>
<p>The facade of a building in Chelsea (8th and 14th st) just blew off. You could see right into someone’s living room and bedroom.</p>
<p>Our LBI beach house was just completed and we moved in in May so we are to the current Jersey Shore code. We were told that the house was built to Miami-Dade Hurricane code. Guess we will find out?</p>
<p>Expecting the worst in Lower Manhattan in terms of water. Hudson River and East River already lapping over piers and seawalls. As expected the aftermath and not the storm itself may be the biggest problem. If seawater gets into the ELECTRIFIED SUBWAY, that’s all she wrote. Electric company had decided to shut down power in Lower Manhattan to minimize damage to equipment. That means no Wall Street operations tomorrow and of course no resumption of subway service. But of course Mayor Know it All Bloomberg says “we expected city workers to report to work?” What???</p>
<p>North east Ohio here on a hill with winds picking up and yes, I think it is three storms converging.</p>
<p>Neighbor’s tree just came down into our front yard, narrowly missing our wires but catching hers. Missed both houses and cars, but she can’t get out of her driveway and wires are down in the street.</p>
<p>Dangling crane is really a potential nightmare. The velocity of a fall and crash to the street could penatrate gas and power lines, causing a big bang!!! NYPD has evacuated all surrounding buildings and created a frozen zone.</p>
<p>I’m really surprised that crane wasn’t moved like three days ago.</p>
<p>A friend’s wife has been summoned to deal with the crane. She is head of forensic engineering group of a consulting firm. He is stuck with babysitting their kids.</p>
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One of the likely effects is that the rats will flee to higher ground.</p>
<p>oldfort–how is a Dad being “stuck with babysitting” his own kids when the Mom gets called to work? I hope you are kidding. If the Dad was called for an emergency, would his wife be “stuck with babysitting?”</p>