<p>Ugh. Finally lost our power about half an hour ago. We are on the “right” hand side of the storm path - had heavy rain most of the day and now mostly heavy wind, as predicted.</p>
<p>We just put in a new drainage system and have no standing water for the first time with a storm of this magnitude, so at least that is good. Just started looking into a generator, since we have been losing power again after several good years but too late for this storm.</p>
<p>“His wife didn’t have any more right to work than he did.” Sorry, but to me, an issue of public safely (such as a dangling crane), trumps anything the husband might be doing.</p>
<p>I don’t think the governors were referring to people who had emergency related responsibilities. If the caller was an engineer who had to report to work on stabilizing that crane, she should have known enough to understand it wasn’t about her. It’s about the idiots who decide they know better than the emergency personnel, and end up putting other people’s lives at risk.</p>
<p>If she is in charge of stabilizing that crane, she is in the same category as those rescuers being asked to help others who stayed behind - she is working to make the area safe, and may end up saving many lives. I don’t see her as any different than a nurse who didn’t evacuate because she was at the hospital tending to patients.</p>
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<p>Oh my gosh, I just saw that! It looks like a doll’s house when you open it up!</p>
<p>thanks LW - that’s huge that stuyvesant town is evacuated.</p>
<p>Guys, that’s why we told this guy to do what he needed to do because his wife’s work was more important at that moment. Their kids are 2-5. It’s a full time job just to make sure they don’t kill themselves.</p>
<p>Here’s one insight into what might be an overlooked economic cost of this storm – I just checked my work email, and one of our investors is saying they won’t fund loans in the tristate area (NY, NJ, CT) until appraisers do a re-inspection to make sure there’s no storm damage. They had to this with Irene. What it means for people who were planning on closing on loans or who were in the pipeline for a purchase or refinance is delays, which cost time and money. </p>
<p>All this is small compared to the loss of life, or an injury to a loved one. I’m glad my family is home, bored, inside, safe.</p>
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<p>The mayor told them to evacuate to a shelter in AC against Governor’s order. That is now flooded and without power. Governor claims the shelter was only a block from water. National guards are trying to move them to a safer shelter last I heard.</p>
<p>How long do you think it will take for the wind to diminish after the eye passes? We lost power for an hour two. I wonder if we should expect more outages.</p>
<p>^^I work in insurance and we’ve had a cease bind in effect since Friday for the entire east coast. Anybody who was closing on homes this week needed to push their closings back because they most likely couldn’t get insurance. When I consider the claims payout combined with the loss of ability to book business for this storm it makes me a little weak in the knees.</p>
<p>I am praying that everybody is safe! We have 40-60mph wind gusts in Detroit this evening and even that is making me nervous, I can’t imagine what everybody out east is going through.</p>
<p>federal government is closed Tuesday as well…</p>
<p>edit: and I can’t believe those people in NYC left that crane up there… come on. I hope that company will be held responsible for any damage done and for the manpower it cost the city to block off the area.</p>
<p>The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is very badly flooding – water pouring in from all sides.</p>
<p>I just saw Jim Cantore’s storm report in NYC. I have never seen him look so worried…</p>
<p>I’m enjoying your storm updates. As for the dangling crane, they ought to figure out who it was that decided to leave that thing in place and dangle them from it. No doubt it was an ‘economic’ decision.</p>
<p>Lake Michigan is ugly tonight, but it gets worse south near Chicago, they predict wind guests close 60 mph tomorrow. It’s howling right now. It’s a small thing compared to what they are getting slammed with in the east. Stay safe everyone.</p>
<p>Consolation, what happened with S and the French consulate? We are on pins and needles here!</p>
<p>I’m not ready to strangle the crane contractors yet. I want facts. The intensity of the storm was only predicted in earnest on Friday. That’s when City Hall ordered that every construction project be halted (what project is active on weekends anyway?) and that all tall cranes be secured. Earlier today the publicity hound city council president said that not every site could be verified between Friday and today. Reportedly the prime contractor said in a statement this evening that indeed the crane was inspected and “secured.” I want a sober review of the facts when the storm is over.</p>
<p>^^^my son and DIL have a contract on a house in Boston…inspected last week, a couple of problems found that are in negotiation right now. Closing is set for end of December. Can they arrange for another inspection to check for storm damage? Would it be required by their lender (I sort of hope so???)?</p>
<p>Son just said that it’s quieter now in Boston. I checked the weather site and windspeed is in the low 20s. Forecast is still 36 - 33 - 31 and then into the twenties for the next three hours but the worst of the wind has passed for Boston. I think that he might be in a quiet band for the moment and that it could pick up again but the 40-50 MPH winds are over.</p>
<p>I wasn’t able to get in touch with my mother. I will try again in the morning. Her answering machine didn’t pick up so I’m wondering if she lost power.</p>
<p>Can someone explain why the NBA has not cancelled Thursday’s game between New York and Brooklyn?</p>
<p>Nothing much at all in Albany area yet. They keep saying we are supposed to get winds and gusts to maybe 60mph but so far so good. Went to my neighbors for dinner. My sister in Westchester Co lost power hours ago. I feel very lucky tonight given the reports from downstate and NJ.</p>