kraftiekortie wrote:
I lucked out with Hurricane Sandy, too, in 2012.
At least 5 million people were without power in the New York area because of Sandy. We were not one of them. And all the stores remained open in my area.
And remember: Sandy was absolutely a MINIMAL hurricane when it first made landfall. The second time it made landfall, it wasn't a hurricane any more---but an "extratropical cyclone."
The problem was when we had to get gas. Until mid-November (Sandy occurred in late October), we had to wait on long gas lines in order to get gas---and many gas stations were closed because of lost power.
This is why I always say we should always have a non-digital/electrical/computer solution to things. So we don't get paralyzed every time a computer system goes down.
Sandy was a minimal hurricane but that is misleading. Sandy was so big the storm surge flooding was equivalent to a what would be expected with a strong category 3. Also in the Northeast US you have a lot of big fat old trees. They do not bend like palm trees down south. They snap or get uprooted and when they come down they do a lot of damage to property and above ground electric poles and wiring a lot of which is above ground in the region.
Imelda is not even a hurricane and look what it is doing.
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19 Sep 2019, 4:14 pm
