Our good friend Ken Pierson's house in NJ was flooded with 4 feet of water on the 1st floor. Luckily he has a second floor. The family is doing ok I guess. No one got hurt.
NJ looks like New Orleans after Katrina. And those 90 houses that burnt during a hurricane? WTF?
But does he own a boat? Man that sucks.
Lots of repairs and damage, but at least he will still have a home.
I can't imagine how long it will take for some decent sort of of recovery to happen over there. Long term restoration is impossible to calculate I'm sure, ......but getting 'relatively' back to normal is like what?
.........a couple of weeks, a couple of months? ......6 months?
Wow ....we get high winds and storms every year with gusts into the 50's 60's and more. ....but those are just gusts, not steady winds. Trees and power lines down is expected.
The gusts usually the headlands full force, but a couple miles inland like where I live, the winds and gusts are a lot less.
30 mph gusts are quite noticeable, a gust of 50 or so is when reality sets in and you begin to worry about tree limbs dropping through the roof into the living room which would certainly disrupt the PBS show, "NATURE"
We count ourselves lucky in my area on Oregon's coast, never seeing these type of storms. Worst I have seen is water over the highway and downtown streets because downtown sets just a few feet above the " above normal" high tide level. Strong storms, plus a very high tide are what make the water come onto the highway and streets. Not all that a common experience. Some shop owners occasionally have to sand bag their front entrances and cross their fingers.
...we don't have subway tunnels, water systems and electrical grids residing under the city like New York does. We are just a tiny blip on the worlds map.
Living so close to the ocean is something I couldn't begin to imagine ever living without.
I'm betting, that even with all that destruction over there, that
most residents there would say the same thing.
I have been looking at photos on the internet, and I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine my area being devastated in such a way.
My prayers sent to all of you affected by Sandy.