Post-Sandy head count

[Essex Boy]

Have all Jubsters in the path of the storm been accounted for now? Fuji and a few other famous names have made contact, is anyone still missing?
And I've just noticed that Sloppy2nds is back after a week's absence. Didn't anyone miss the poor bugger?

[Kahaih]

If we haven’t heard from them by now, Essex Boy, I’m afraid Sandy’s snatch has them.

Like little Ping-Pong balls at a burlesque show, she picked them up with her sticky wet cunt, and they’ve decided to forgo the yellow brick road until they’ve all had their fill of hot munchkin butt sex.

For now, let’s just hope the being gang-raped by flying monkeys is a lot more fun than any of us could ever imagine.

[FPNY]

FPNY has abandoned his house that has no power, heat or water. I'm alive at my sisters in upstate NY. They are saying no power until Wednesday but another storm is headed our way for Wednesday. I'm alive, but very very cranky.

[ronboy]

Sir Ron is A-OK here in Western NY.
I have power, went back to work, and life has pretty much returned to normal (whatever that is...)

[mikey3000]

I'm water logged but ok here in Toronto, though I've had a bad headache for over a week now due to the changing barometric pressure. Any one else?

[ChickenGuy]

Collating this thread with the other thread, and also checking last post dates, I've confirmed that everyone (or at least everyone mentioned by name) has been accounted for....

....except for Criostoir, last visit October 27th, and we won't hear from him in this thread, because for some unexplained reason he's gone and abandoned the Hot Topics forum entirely. Anyway, it shouldn't be an immediate cause for concern because his postings have become very infrequent in recent months.

[frankfrank]

^ You beat me to it.

I should send him a PM, perhaps.

[EDIT: And I just now did. We'll see. And hope.]

[DigitalFudge]

FPNY has abandoned his house that has no power, heat or water. I'm alive at my sisters in upstate NY. They are saying no power until Wednesday but another storm is headed our way for Wednesday. I'm alive, but very very cranky.

Im so sorry to hear that.

[FPNY]

I'm water logged but ok here in Toronto, though I've had a bad headache for over a week now due to the changing barometric pressure. Any one else?

No headache, but our dog went berserk when the low pressure system came through. He was pacing and whining and shaking his head like his ears were bothering him. This went on for like thirty minutes, then he laid down and went to sleep like nothing happened.

[Falcon16]

Sure glad everyone is ok, not a good situation there. Where I work, Canton, MA, was without power for 3 days, but all is well now.

I'm water logged but ok here in Toronto, though I've had a bad headache for over a week now due to the changing barometric pressure. Any one else?

Mikey, I have the same thing...and here comes another system our way.

[72-Jay]

I've had a bad headache for over a week now due to the changing barometric pressure. Any one else?

^ I wasted a good chunk on my saturday in bed with one of those...
There's a reason I hate weather changes

[JOHN B]

Even though I am way over here in Ohio....I lost power and heat, for three days. All day Tues thru almost all day Thursday. Spoke to someone at the store the other day, and she said they STILL had no power. (she had to move in with relatives since the storm, while waiting for power to come back).

[refujiunderground]

Even though I am way over here in Ohio....I lost power and heat, for three days. All day Tues thru almost all day Thursday. Spoke to someone at the store the other day, and she said they STILL had no power. (she had to move in with relatives since the storm, while waiting for power to come back).

damn, ya got hit over there too? i feel your pain, man. that storm really kicked the east coast ass especially out here in jersey. from some of the images on the news, the jersey shore really did get hit as bad as they say it did. heard that the boardwalk and amusement park in seaside heights is dead and gone.

[DigitalFudge]

I read that all of the Jersey Shore is just not there anymore.

[JOHN B]

I wish i had thought of checking out the marina here (on Lake Erie) ....I never thought of going there to see the destruction, and take pictures....It's too late now, probably cleaned up. But I heard from a co-worker (who has a boat) that even though their boat was fine, about half the other boats there were destroyed and/or tossed ON TOP OF eachother!

[refujiunderground]

I read that all of the Jersey Shore is just not there anymore.

judging from this, wouldn't be surprised at all. the housing and the structures are completely damaged BUT i hope nobody died over there though. there was some rumor floating around about 23 bodies over there. the police are denying it though.

that whole entire small amusement park is gone and the boardwalk too. wow.

[JOHN B]

Can you believe that the "Jersey Shore" frat/reality show house survived intact??!! There is no God.

Before this thread gets off topic,..lets here some stories from JUBbers who dealt with Sandy......

[JayHawk]

Beat me to it John B....

New Amsterdam needs to build some deflecting and sluicing barriers that Amsterdam built after they got their wake up call.

Seems like everyone I remember from over there is back up and posting.... If there is a bright silver lining to the storms I will let ya know that Kansas City experienced a wonderful week following the storm because of the high pressure bringing warmer air from the south.

What i find alarming post Katrina is that those folks would hunker down and wait to die in places that are literally a few feet above sea level. Have people no sense? Hurricane coming = leave.

[refujiunderground]

Can you believe that the "Jersey Shore" frat/reality show house survived intact??!! There is no God.

Before this thread gets off topic,..lets here some stories from JUBbers who dealt with Sandy......

was thinking the same exact thing. terrible indeed.

nevermind but i pretty much have a lot to say about this shit. this is only just some of the shit going on but it needs to get put outthere so there's a lot of misinformation and things not being said.

the power went out at 8 last monday. it sucked that the power went out. it was somewhat managable UNTIL the cold front came in and fucked everything up. it was cold as hell. life SUCKS without electricity. despite having no light and relying on the daylight, i managed to get some hours of studying in for the lsat, read a bit of the outing yourself book, got my exercise on via walking all the way down south orange to starbucks to charge my cell, ipod and laptop (was able to get on the internet for some hours) and to the park. i also managed to strike some conversations with two people some days of each other where one was a obama supporter and the other was a romney supporter while i was out walking around. needless to say, it was very interesting to see what both of them had to say but they both were cool as hell though. even though they both had some nice things to say about their presidential hopefuls and not so nice things to say about the other party and candidates, they both agreed that if the rival candidate wins that this country will go to total shit. *shrugs*

as for what's happening now around here, i learned some things from this though. not going to go through all that BUT one thing i would like to get outthere is don't believe everything you read or hear. in fact, the corruption that new jersey is notoriously known for was and still is at work. if you were to see the news, you would think that we were going through katrina or something for the entire state. you would also think that there is a huge effort going on to restore power and whatever else. i dunno about south jersey, last time i heard, south jersey had more places with powers than up north did at least around here. the damage up north wasn't that bad. considering that, pse&g (the light company) was doing a whole lot of flipflopping to the point where it was fucking ridiculous. some parts of towns had power while other parts didn't. even now, some places are out in darkness still. hell, last night on my block, my neighbors on the corner across the street had power while we out in darkness. in fact, last week and even up til the past weekend, pse&g crews were just driving around chilling doing absolutely NOTHING (the word going around is that they were trying to rack up on overtime). the town department of works was about to start doing their own thing but pse&g told them not to.

then you have the whole oil situation where people are standing in lines and cars are literally waiting for miles for gas. on the first days, gas stations were shut down and then they opened up. gas stations were raising the prices too on purpose. gas stations that were 3.59 before the storm all of a sudden some days later went to 4 bucks. i've heard new york doing something about it but obviously nothing's being done in jersey. nobody seems to give a fuck anyway and to make matters worse, these gas stations have store attendants pumping the gas so they're basically profitting off of the situation.

whatever chris christie's doing, he's basically putting on a show since it's his golden opportunity to use this to run for the 2016 presidential election. christie was being coached already and if it isn't more obvious then, then it is now. hell, it best benefits him and obama. all the attention on romney has died out and now obama is getting the limelight. this is why i'm saying that obama pretty much is winning the election tomorrow (you know how the story is). i think new jersey is going to have a lot to do with that shit too. but back to what i'm saying, a lot of the shit that's going on in jersey with the whole disaster relief is fucking politics. you have the power companies bullshitting, the gas companies bullshitting and in the middle of it all, you have chris christie who is doing a terrible job of controlling the situation trying to milk this shit to move up the ladder.

don't be surprise if 4 years from now christie ends up becoming the president. he's already positioning himself. the next 4 years are going to be crazy though.

[Sausy]

Just got power back today after a week, live on the West Side area in Jersey City...lots of substations were badly damaged not only through flooding but wind damage knocked down a good number of utility poles and trees to make things worse. Not sure how much of the vaunted New Jersey corruption(Hudson County gets a gold star in that department, where I live btw)factored into the long recovery effort but there was lots of real damage out there. City curfew for vehicles and pedestrians after sunset just lifted tonight, thankfully as most(but not yet all) of the city has power restored. One problem that will absolutely take time to remedy is our PATH train service to Newark and to the World Trade Center will not resume until structural damage to our substations there are fixed and all signals are working for thee trains to navigate through successfully. There was record flooding of some stations in lower Manhattan, Hoboken and Exchange Place here in Jersey City and those stations will take time to be reopened for regular service. Our buses are running pretty much as scheduled though our light rail is just expected to come back on line this week. Thankfully PATH trains from Journal Square to 33rd Street in Mahattan will resume tomorrow morning and run until further notice from 5am to 10pm on a regular basis daily. That after all that flooding we should get back to that level of seervice is a testament to the workers in the PATH system clearing out millions of gallons of river water and fixing what often is corrosive salt water structural damage to our system and great credit to them....I know in relatively short order the system will be back fully online for the tens of thousands of straphangers riding daily.

Glad to hear loki reporting back as getting through his ordal in Hoboken just fine after the initial harrowing events but still concerned about our other Hobokener, croistior who has been discussed by several others here. Just hoping he can check in soon as Hoboken is slowly recovering from its terrible flooding and damage and maybe he just doesn't have internet access as of yet.

[Sausy]

judging from this, wouldn't be surprised at all. the housing and the structures are completely damaged BUT i hope nobody died over there though. there was some rumor floating around about 23 bodies over there. the police are denying it though.

that whole entire small amusement park is gone and the boardwalk too. wow.

The shore got pounded last year by Hurricane Irene but this just devastated much of the recovery effort in the meantime. Some of the saddest sights in this whole damn Sandy mess is that devastation wrought on our shore communities from the Jersey Shore to the coastal areas of NYC and Long Island...words just can't express the utter loss and unfathomability of the scale. Thoughts and prayers to all those impacted so directly by Sandy's wrath.

[FPNY]

"They" are saying my power will be back tomorrow nite at 11. I was at my house today, it's 50 degrees in there. I'm worried that there is going to be nor'easter Wednesday and my pipes are going to freeze.......

[Sausy]

Glad you're experience wasn't too terrible,loki...like most of us not caught directly in the flooding or wind driven damage itwas lots of darkness and just doing stuff to get by until power comes back. Fortunately you had that trip coming and you had your tank full, so you could escape all this for a few days and get restocked and refueled. Just heard so much of Hoboken was flooded, so much damage and wasn't sure what part of the city you live in. Absolutely right about the lessons learned, though as one who doesn't drive it is admittedly convenient to have the car battery chargers available for cellphone recharging. Thankfully bus service downtown to the Newport Mall so my brother and I could charge our phones in their Food Court....he works at Sears and also could charge it there. PSE&G also opened a charge station for cell phones and devices as well as MRE(military style meals) and ice along with water and other needed supplies were provided in our neighborhood. Anyway, just glad your experience was not too bad.

[JOHN B]

My power went out overnite on Monday. It had flickered a bit Monday nite, when i got home from work...and I thought I was safe when I went to bed WITH power.....but, guess not. I had hot water for showers, here in my apartment, but since there was no electricity to turn on the thermostat, there was no heat thru the radiators. I had three little push button battery operated LED lights luckily, which have been a godsend when I have had brief power outages before. So, I just ended up going to bed early each nite, even though out of those three days, I only had to work/get up early for work, one of those days. I ended up finally getting around to reading a book I bought THREE years ago ("The Time Traveler's Wife"...almost done with it. Awesome book..afraid to see the watered down movie version).
From a sociological perspective (have a degree, never used it) it was interesting to see just how connected everyone has to be to the internet/technology these days. I got a kick out of going to the coffee shops and seeing just how many people were waiting to....who HAD to...(like me ) sit around and wait for a plug to be free so as to power up their phones and such. If this had happened 15 years ago, even less, most people would just stay at home, read a book, play board games, etc.... But in the 21st century we all were desperate to "stay connected" to the outside world/internet. The libraries and small restaurants and coffee shops were PACKED. It was cool to talk to these strangers, who all had this power outage in common, and hear their stories. Most people were relatively polite to eachother, and would unplug to let someone else plug, after about an hour or two, so that everyone had a turn. (60 people in a coffee shop, and only 10 plugs at the most equaled long lines, lol)
...One funny incident was when I when to a late nite restaurant, sat next to a plug, and finished recharging my one little phone. A guy came in, sat nearby, and asked if he could use the plug opening above mine. "No problem" I said. ...He took off his backpack, ..pulled out a power strip.....then pulled out a SECOND power strip....connected one to the other, then the remaining part into the plug underneath my table. THEN he pulls out a laptop computer. A bluetooth. A cellphone. And a tablet.....and proceeds to plug aaaalllll of those items in to the powerstrips before going over to his table to eat. I had to be careful with my feet, and make sure I did not kick any of them..lol

[refujiunderground]

Glad you're experience wasn't too terrible,loki...like most of us not caught directly in the flooding or wind driven damage itwas lots of darkness and just doing stuff to get by until power comes back. Fortunately you had that trip coming and you had your tank full, so you could escape all this for a few days and get restocked and refueled. Just heard so much of Hoboken was flooded, so much damage and wasn't sure what part of the city you live in. Absolutely right about the lessons learned, though as one who doesn't drive it is admittedly convenient to have the car battery chargers available for cellphone recharging. Thankfully bus service downtown to the Newport Mall so my brother and I could charge our phones in their Food Court....he works at Sears and also could charge it there. PSE&G also opened a charge station for cell phones and devices as well as MRE(military style meals) and ice along with water and other needed supplies were provided in our neighborhood. Anyway, just glad your experience was not too bad.

it's crazy how PSE&G is helping you guys outthere BUT they can't do the same thing in townships like maplewood, irvington, union, springfield and etc. it's fucked up. you can't even call them because they'll just give an automated response. i was fortunate to be next to a town that had light and had a starbucks where i could go on the internet to find out what was going on. there are towns over here that have no places that have power or anywhere where they can get info. the radio doesn't even provide information needed. 1010 wins for the most part was focused on what's happening in new york. the only info that was going on in new jersey was about the gas station/license plates bullshit and chris christie talking about power companies from out of state coming to help. ridiculous. some of my people living in the affected areas STILL have no power and are being told that they're not going to get any by the next week. this is terrible.

one thing that i know for sure is that i most definitely am thinking about moving the hell out of new jersey. last year was another drama with irene where our township and others nearby were on "water restrictions" while other towns within the area could use their water. now it's this bullshit. some of these townships actually have like 30 people without power while others have like 1,000 or more. they're slacking.

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...One funny incident was when I when to a late nite restaurant, sat next to a plug, and finished recharging my one little phone. A guy came in, sat nearby, and asked if he could use the plug opening above mine. "No problem" I said. ...He took off his backpack, ..pulled out a power strip.....then pulled out a SECOND power strip....connected one to the other, then the remaining part into the plug underneath my table. THEN he pulls out a laptop computer. A bluetooth. A cellphone. And a tablet.....and proceeds to plug aaaalllll of those items in to the powerstrips before going over to his table to eat. I had to be careful with my feet, and make sure I did not kick any of them..lol

W...T....F?????? that dude is a jackass.

[frankfrank]

SOME GREAT NEWS HERE!!!

I can confirm that Criostoir is INDEED ALIVE, WELL, AND OK. Some of us were worried because Hoboken was half-flooded, but apparently he missed that. He was without power for about a week, though.

[Essex Boy]

There hasn't been a word (I use the term in the loosest sense) from Sloppyseconds for ten days now. Does anyone know his whereabouts? He went quiet for a week when the storm hit, so I presume he was affected. Maybe he's not everyone's cup of tea but he is family when all's said and done.

[Críostóir]

Yes, I am OK. Yes, I lost power for a week. Yes, my posts have been infrequent. By the time I got the PM here this thread had vanished into the back pages!

Hoboken has not finished recovering, and won't for months. Biden was just looking at the damage. My building is OK, but many others have lost everything. A local food pantry was completely wiped out...but donations put it back in "business" within a few days.

I opined halfway through the first week that they had to have been screening the National Guard guys for looks before sending them to Hoboken. I didn't see any that were even close to ugly, and some of them were Very Much Not Ugly, if you receive my meaning!