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Good luck to all during Hurricane Sandy

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Yoc:
Thanks for letting us know you are ok John.  We were getting a bit worried.
The footage of the Long Island area were scary stuff.  I sure hope you all recover soon.

Keep us in the loop if you can, thanks,
-Yoc

John C:
There are still people I'm hoping eventually check in who I know are in New Jersey and Connecticut, and I'm sure we have even more members out there who are stranded.

Talking to my coworkers today, though (very annoying--while I was in my house with no heat or way to tell people I was OK, my office was up and running!), I'm mostly feeling better about the area.  Power is still going to take forever, unfortunately, but it's sounding like most of the bad spots were relatively isolated and the worst (like the sewage issues) either is or will be cleaned up shortly.

Not to downplay, of course, just that from the sampling of people I've been talking to, the recovery is largely in sight.  The exceptions in the metropolitan area seem to be in Staten Island.  Like Long Beach, there are many reports of cars totaled by the waves pushing them away from where they were parked.  I know one guy over there who recently reduced his flood insurance, so I hope he'll be OK.

Mind you, the new problem is people being stupid.  Because the gas (petrol, for the Europeans) pumps here are all electric, so there was a day or so of pumping stations that had plenty of fuel, but no way to pump it or take money.  As power comes online, people low on gas have been flooding in to fill up their tanks.  That started a shortage, so now people with half a tank are grabbing what they can, to make sure they don't run out.

So...since the Coast Guard closed New York Harbor, we've now been seeing a real shortage.  Mind you, the ports have been re-opened (with what sounds like an "our bad" from the Coast Guard), so gas will start showing up again tomorrow.  But that's not stopping people from sitting on line for hours, burning gas that could've gotten them through the weekend...

Oh, speaking of gas, generators are still in stock.  I'm pretty amazed.  Usually, they're sold out in hours.  But since they're not, that increases the odds of people being comfortable over a cold weekend.

(Unrelated, I disagree with Bloomberg cancelling the marathon.  His "people need something to cheer about" idea was stupid, but the money and attention would've been a very good thing at a time when it could use both.  I mean, the race starts in Staten Island.)

Do we have anybody else (currently reading, not in the abstract) in the area dealing with this?  I know it was a huge storm and I've only seen a tiny, tiny part of it.  Second-hand reports from down by Philadelphia don't sound so bad.

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