Hurricane Sandy

[Dick Butler]

Snowing in Dayton Ohio 5:00Am. Heavy wind last pm. Stay safe to all in the East. Dont take any chances getting out and around.

[Jack Matyas]

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel

Going to be huge amounts of damage in NY and NJ.......Flooding mostly from storm surge.....Not fun right now here in northwestern NJ.....Very high wind gusts that are over 50 mph....

Ken Miele.....lives near where the eye of the storm is coming ashore right now......

and Jack Matyas spends a lot of time at AC.....Hope they are both undercover!!!!

Ken is fine - just a little soggy .I was to leave for Atlantic City this past Thursday but cancelled all plans for that trip .Good news is the building super stayed at my place last night and its OK - no power - cable or Internet but the building isn't under water ( probably won't happen as its 33 stories ) at least yet - water is still rising but they've sandbagged plenty . Some of the Boardwalk in front of the building is hurt but repairable .

Much worse here in the Christmas City - we have more than 40,000 homes in the area with no power - and we're told it could be 5 to 10 days till we get back online .Hello Mr. Winnebago Journey ..........

[Dennis P Chapman]

Just got power back 20 mins ago lost it yesterday at about noon. Have some big pine trees down in the yard took out the shed lots of cleanup. Still is raining and still windy.

[treessavoy]

To all our fellow racers and their loved ones, stay safe and take care of each other so we can see you ready to go next Spring.

JimR

[Keith 944]

a few pics. we just drove around the block. a lot of trees down and some flooding. this was at 1:00pm today (Tue).
Del. state police block entrance to st. Augustine beach. in port Penn.
the Del river going into Delaware city.
C&D canal entrance to Del city and Del river
looking into New Jersey (nuclear power plant) at Pennsville, from C&D canal.

New Jersey and the coast of MD. and De. got nailed hard.
we are lucky, not much more than a lot of wind and this localized flooding, even my home in fruitland, Md. was unhurt

[gmonde]

Originally Posted by Jack Matyas

Ken is fine - just a little soggy .I was to leave for Atlantic City this past Thursday but cancelled all plans for that trip .Good news is the building super stayed at my place last night and its OK - no power - cable or Internet but the building isn't under water ( probably won't happen as its 33 stories ) at least yet - water is still rising but they've sandbagged plenty . Some of the Boardwalk in front of the building is hurt but repairable .

Much worse here in the Christmas City - we have more than 40,000 homes in the area with no power - and we're told it could be 5 to 10 days till we get back online .Hello Mr. Winnebago Journey ..........

it was windy here ,a few transformers blew up but could have been alot worse
been to the movie last year when the october storm hit and broke every tree in newengland
the generator ran for 7 days and its one of those jr dragster engines with a pipe ,the neighbors loved it

[vic guilmino]

a little rain and 40mph wind that all

[Bob Don]

Some flooding along the coast. My power went out yesterday around 2pm and just came back. Still raining. Drove around and many trees are down. From what I've seen on TV, we made out a lot better than NYC and New Jersey.

[Rich Biebel]

Originally Posted by Ken Miele

Rich,

The eye came through about 6:30, we where lucky no damage or flooding. The shore however is under water from the surge. For a hour or so it was dead calm when the eye went through. No rain no wind, kind of weird. Now the wind's have picked up, but still not bad.

A few months ago we got a storm that was a lot worse than this, lost power for 5 days, looked like a war zone. This time the coast took the brunt of it. Jack is not in AC, he is at his home in PA. He said it was raining but I have not heard from him in a while. The storm is heading his way, but should be a little diminished by now.

How are things up there?

Hi Ken.....Wicked winds here last night and damage everywhere. We are off the charts busy and it is beyond anything we have ever had and we have had some biggies before.....I never lost power for more than a few minutes at home and have very little damage but it was not a nice night.....We are on generator power at the shop and all the towns around us are out......

Glad your ok.......See you at the track my friend....Rich

[Dave Ley]

Minimal damage at my place but the surrounding area was hit pretty hard. Lots of road closures, power outages and tree damage.
Gonna be a long cleanup in South Jersey.