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Title: Sandy
Post by: Iggy on October 28, 2012, 01:42:12 AM
Sitting here in Milford Delaware not too far from the mouth of the Delaware Bay pretty close to where Sandy is going to make land fall.
How is it that they can name a  potentially dangerous weather pattern with such a harmless sounding name?

Wish us luck guys.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: J-Golden on October 28, 2012, 05:43:27 AM
Best of luck man.  I have family back there and I hope they do okay too.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: runequester on October 28, 2012, 07:02:09 AM
Fingers crossed for you lot.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: Iggy on October 28, 2012, 01:01:54 PM
The air is still, there's no rain yet, but it is one nasty shade of gray outside.

Good day to use the internet or watch a movie.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: Templario on October 28, 2012, 08:30:03 PM
Good luck and you haven't much problems and no victims with this Sandy.
Climate change is here....
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: Iggy on October 28, 2012, 09:17:29 PM
Quote from: Templario;712925
Climate change is here....

Yes, climate change and a new global economy.
I'm buying a generator, stocking some food, water and supplies away, investing in a few solar panels and hunkering down.
 
Unless we all wise up, things could get much uglier.
AND, even if we do, it may be too late.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: runequester on October 29, 2012, 02:24:27 AM
Quote from: Iggy;712932
Yes, climate change and a new global economy.


Jobs go out, storm goes in ?
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: Iggy on October 29, 2012, 02:59:30 AM
Quote from: runequester;712973
Jobs go out, storm goes in ?

Well, I'm holding on to my crappy little job (although I do have to be there Tuesday morning when the winds could be gusting at 60mph).
 
And its 11PM Sunday night and the wind is picking up. Hoowee! Here we go boys! I going to bed, and when I get up I fully expect it to really suck outside.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: esc on October 29, 2012, 06:30:58 AM
My wife/dogs/cats are in the DC area and I've got my fingers crossed that things work out.  I'm sure they'll be fine but all my guitars, amps, amiga stuff, and record collection are in the basement...I hope she brought it all upstairs!!!
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: Iggy on October 29, 2012, 11:54:13 AM
The wind is not as bad as anticipated and the rain is no worse then the average tropical storm.
I don't have to go out until tomorrow, so everything here is cool.
Once again, a lot of worry over something that is not as bad as it might have been.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: Templario on October 29, 2012, 11:15:47 PM
Yes Iggy the solar devices is a great invention, my brother has solar panels in his house and he saves money because he has connect lamps, radios, etc., in my case I have only flashlights and a radio but also you buy flashlights of dinamo and radios in case of cloudy days as with the sandy also there are solar movilphone chargers but they are bads.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: Iggy on October 29, 2012, 11:25:53 PM
Quote from: Templario;713133
Yes Iggy the solar devices is a great invention, my brother has solar panels in his house and he saves money because he has connect lamps, radios, etc., in my case I have only flashlights and a radio but also you buy flashlights of dinamo and radios in case of cloudy days as with the sandy also there are solar movilphone chargers but they are bads.

I'm sitting here with a crank powered radio right now. I even take it camping sometimes.
Looking forward to investing some money in panels for the house.
It will be nice to have some of my power derived from a totally clean source.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: kedawa on October 30, 2012, 03:11:43 AM
Quote from: Iggy;713024
The wind is not as bad as anticipated and the rain is no worse then the average tropical storm.
I don't have to go out until tomorrow, so everything here is cool.
Once again, a lot of worry over something that is not as bad as it might have been.


I think it's the water that people are worried about, not the winds.
You have a tropical storm combining with a nor'easter, hitting land that's adjacent to shallow seas, and it's happening during a spring tide.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: Iggy on October 30, 2012, 08:47:27 AM
Good point, the ground is totally saturated here.
But, ast 4 the the morning on Tuesday, its all over.
Yay!
Now if Delaware would just lift the State of Emergency so I could get to work.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: ChuckT on November 03, 2012, 03:13:05 AM
Quote from: Iggy;712840
Sitting here in Milford Delaware not too far from the mouth of the Delaware Bay pretty close to where Sandy is going to make land fall.
How is it that they can name a  potentially dangerous weather pattern with such a harmless sounding name?

Wish us luck guys.


We prepared by washing all the clothes in the house once they started reporting that we could be out of power for a week or more.  I bought a utility pump on amazon and I thought it wasn't going to come in time so I bought another one at Home Depot.  I bought double A batteries and a hose for the utility pump.

We lost power for 15 hours.  My neighbor let us plug into his nice generator for three hours.  I had to charge our phone because the FIOS battery was dead after eight hours of non-use, I plugged in the fridge, and I charged my cell phone.  My wife was impressed that I have some Cree flashlights that I bought off of ebay which make the house like night and day.  They use 18650 lithium batteries so I also bought some battery to USB chargers for the cell phones.

My son didn't have school for four days.

There is a tree on a house on my street.  I called the police and they tried to tell me to tell the owner and I told them the township is the owner.  Then they wanted to know my name.

Since this storm, I thought about what I need for the next storm.  I saw that a 93 year old resident died because of hypothermia and so I started looking on Amazon for 10 degree sleeping bags and thermal blankets.  

I need to think about a generator, an extention cord with multiple outlets, another wet dry vac.

My grandmother thought that all you need are some long matches, a gas stove and a lantern flashlight with two 6 volt batteries.  She believed that stores try to make money off of consumers and that two lantern batteries are all you need.  She is right to an extent but you have to think about heat and flooding.

A co-worker wanted to buy a flashlight but couldn't find any in the stores.  I told him to try back in a month because it will take some of the stores that long to restock.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: Iggy on November 04, 2012, 09:28:23 PM
Quote from: ChuckT;713706
We prepared by washing all the clothes in the house once they started reporting that we could be out of power for a week or more.  I bought a utility pump on amazon and I thought it wasn't going to come in time so I bought another one at Home Depot.  I bought double A batteries and a hose for the utility pump.

We lost power for 15 hours.  My neighbor let us plug into his nice generator for three hours.  I had to charge our phone because the FIOS battery was dead after eight hours of non-use, I plugged in the fridge, and I charged my cell phone.  My wife was impressed that I have some Cree flashlights that I bought off of ebay which make the house like night and day.  They use 18650 lithium batteries so I also bought some battery to USB chargers for the cell phones.

My son didn't have school for four days.

There is a tree on a house on my street.  I called the police and they tried to tell me to tell the owner and I told them the township is the owner.  Then they wanted to know my name.

Since this storm, I thought about what I need for the next storm.  I saw that a 93 year old resident died because of hypothermia and so I started looking on Amazon for 10 degree sleeping bags and thermal blankets.  

I need to think about a generator, an extention cord with multiple outlets, another wet dry vac.

My grandmother thought that all you need are some long matches, a gas stove and a lantern flashlight with two 6 volt batteries.  She believed that stores try to make money off of consumers and that two lantern batteries are all you need.  She is right to an extent but you have to think about heat and flooding.

A co-worker wanted to buy a flashlight but couldn't find any in the stores.  I told him to try back in a month because it will take some of the stores that long to restock.

This is about the fourth time in the last several years that we could have used a generator too.
Definitely on my list of things to invest in.
And the crank powered radio has proven its worth twice now.
Everyone should have one of those.
And, of course, D cells, canned goods, and some way a cooking.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: ChuckT on November 05, 2012, 02:17:43 AM
Quote from: Iggy;713881
And the crank powered radio has proven its worth twice now.
Everyone should have one of those.
And, of course, D cells, canned goods, and some way a cooking.


How long do you have radio from cranking it?  I have a small transistor radio that uses two AA batteries.  I'm more frustrated with the news during the storm.  They didn't do enough reporting on how we were effected locally and some people were without power for four days and some people are without power today and they are getting their information from the energy company because no one is reporting it.

I feel bad for the people in New York City who ditched their land line for cell phones.  Apparently, the cell phone towers didn't have power either.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: ChuckT on November 05, 2012, 03:22:17 AM
Generators are nice but the one I saw held 5-8 gallons and could run 8 hours at a 50% load.  You really need a $200-$300 transfer switch to protect your heater and appliances.

My mother in law believes it will cost me $50 a day to run one.  If I ran it 24 hours, it could easily cost that.  Better have your thermal blankets for the winter because another noreaster is coming this way tuesday or wednesday.
Title: Re: Sandy
Post by: Iggy on November 06, 2012, 05:40:19 PM
Quote from: ChuckT;713914
How long do you have radio from cranking it?  I have a small transistor radio that uses two AA batteries.  I'm more frustrated with the news during the storm.  They didn't do enough reporting on how we were effected locally and some people were without power for four days and some people are without power today and they are getting their information from the energy company because no one is reporting it.

I feel bad for the people in New York City who ditched their land line for cell phones.  Apparently, the cell phone towers didn't have power either.

The crank radio operates about three or four times longer then I crank it.
I've used it on camping trips as well as during storms.
If I'm sitting next to a camp fire, cranking the thing isn't too much trouble.

And, yes, a generator could get expensive. If you get a large one your fuel costs are high and a small one won't power much.