Sandy has hit, and my corner of Brooklyn is still standing. The wind was howling like a banshee and the windows were rattling and the tree outside my building was swaying alarmingly, but (aside from a few hours yesterday afternoon), the rain wasn't particularly heavy. No flooding in my building and the street looks pretty good. The power kept flickering last evening/night but never went out for good.
My dad (outside of DC) had the same experiences. My mom's on a business trip, but her house in north Jersey got hit - windows broken, doors blown open, power out; her neighbor's got a generator and got her sump pump going in order to prevent her basement from flooding.
Everyone I've talked to, from Boston to DC, seems to be okay. I hope you all are too!
Still no subway service, so I'm working from home for as long as it takes. According to the MTA's Twitter, some buses will start running again - free of charge - at 5 pm today. The pictures they've posted make it look like the subways won't get going for at least a week, but who knows what they'll manage.
I was surprised yesterday when they talked to an 'average new yorker' who was bitching about the subways being shut down. Uh - you guys are lucky they don't flood every time there's a hard rain storm, did they *really* think they'd be a-okay in this mess?
Sounds like the worst is over weather-wise, now for a speedy clean up! Stay safe!
I can't imagine what ass is griping about the subways being down - where was that person planning to go? And yes, the system is prone to flooding all the time, of course Sandy was going to have a catastrophic effect on an outdated system!
Sometimes people just don't think.
I'm really sorry about your mom's house, though--though glad she's safe.
(my parents didn't lose electricity either, thank goodness!)
hope you stay safe, warm and dry today xoxo
ETA: oh, and I hope your mom's place isn't too bad off! How awful to have to come home to a disaster.
Edited at 2012-10-30 10:13 pm (UTC)
She's due back on Friday - if the airports and roads are open. They lost power early yesterday and haven't gotten it back yet, and I know there were trees falling because a local couple was killed by a tree crushing their car.
Thanks, sugar!