Sandy, aka here we go again...

[ny biker]

Update, the stock exchange did not flood. Though there is plenty of street flooding in lower Manhattan and along the edges, e.g., the FDR Drive. Con Ed turned off power to some neighborhoods. NYU Hospital lost power and their generators failed so it's being evacuated. All county roads in Nassau County are closed, and the parkways on Long Island are also closed.

I read early this afternoon that Atlantic City was pretty much completely flooded. I think there's lots of damage along the shore in Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey.

And there is 14 inches of snow in Davis, WV.

I think the worst is pretty much done in the DC area now, though winds will be slow to decrease.

There are relatively few without power in the DC area, but something like 1.5 million lost power in NY state. My parents and my sister lost power around lunch time today.

On the other hand, I was able to work from home all day long and was able to be very productive. I was remotely connected to my pc at work, which rebooted several times but I was able to reconnect each time. And I had real-time weather information from NYC and Long Island on Twitter. Technology can be pretty great.

[Crankin]

New York looks terrible. We have pretty bad damage along the shoreline here, the usual tree damage, and power outages. It's too early for me to contact my friends and my son who live in different towns/cities, but I suspect I may be one of the few with power. I was supposed to see a new client at her school today, and school there is cancelled, so I am waiting to see if my professional development seminar in our office in the same city as that school is open. I suspect not. I really don't want to be out and driving today. I just heard there's a severe thunderstorm alert out for New England today; we just finished a really torrential downpour about 20 minutes ago.

[Catrin]

Be safe Crankin, and everyone out there. Please continue to keep us posted as you are able to. This is the first time in a long time that I've regretted not having some form of cable tv...

[Crankin]

Spoke to my son. They did not lose power, which is amazing. He had a huge tree come down in the empty lot next to his house (the lot is part of his property). He was happy, as he wanted to get rid of it. My DH is now raring to go over there and wield his chain saw, to cut it up. I haven't been outside, but the only thing i see amiss is that the cover flew off of the grill on my deck. I am glad I took my canoe off of the stand we have it bungeed to. It would have flown off and been damaged. Ugh, it's raining again.
Going to get on the treadmill.

[SheFly]

Crankin - glad you are ok and have power. We ALWAYS lose power in these storms, and went out last year after Irene and bought a generator, had the house wired and were all set. Of course, it figures - we didn't lose power in this storm, though the outage tracker showed that about 42% of town was out at one point last night. We lost one big limb from a shared tree (it's on the line between us and the neighbor) that took out the neighbor's fence. Otherwise, all is good here.

Hope others faired ok also!

SheFly

[Shellyrides]

I am so glad those who have checked in are ok.

[Trek420]

There are relatively few without power in the DC area, but something like 1.5 million lost power in NY state. My parents and my sister lost power around lunch time today.

2.4 million without power in New Jersey alone.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/20...w-meaning?lite

As our TE gals and guys check in ok my thoughts go to those who can't. Stay safe, East Coast.

[IBrakeforPastry]

I hope she's okay. I have nephews at Univ of New Haven and SUNY Farmingdale, and both are home with their parents on Long Island because their schools were closed. The UNH nephew is a volunteer fireman so I imagine he will be at the firehouse for the next few days to be ready for whatever happens.

My parents are in Bayville, where the storm surge will be bad. Once again I'm glad my grandfather chose to build the house up on a hill instead of near the beach.

Did you grow up in Bayville? I'm from a few miles from there. My friend lives there now, and they always evacuate during big storms. I just read that Bayville Ave has partially washed away. I hope your parents aren't stranded! I'm pretty sure the rest of my family on the north shore is just without power, although there is always concern for the big old trees.

[Eden]

Be safe Crankin, and everyone out there. Please continue to keep us posted as you are able to. This is the first time in a long time that I've regretted not having some form of cable tv...

You can probably get most of the news clips on the web these days. They tend to get them up pretty quick and even at times have live streaming. NBC specifically mentioned the live streaming, that they said they were doing for their viewers who were without power (I guess cell service must have been relatively unaffected?)

[OakLeaf]

Most news and iconic photos go up on Twitter these days before the broadcast media ever get them.

This next week or two is going to be rough for a whole lot of people. Prayers that all stay safe and warm.

[Koronin]

Glad to hear all of you are doing alright. I have a friend who lives on the New Jersey coast (one of the small islands). She posted this morning that they made it through alright and the part of the home they built is structurally sound. The old part may or may not be and the houses on both sides of her are destroyed. She didn't evacuate due to the number of cats she has. She had no where to go with them, so she stayed, but they are all ok.

[emily_in_nc]

Amazing storm. Have been watching TWC and getting lots of updates on Facebook as well. Ironic that I am down here in Belize and the mid-Atlantic and northeast US is being hit by this one. Hope everyone in the HUGE area affected by the storm here on TE is safe and sound. Been through multi-day power outages from tropical and winter systems in NC, and it's not fun, but much less bad than flooding and some of the other horrible impacts of this monster storm. Stay safe, everyone.

[jyyanks]

We made it through. My entire town does not have power and there are downed power lines and trees all over the place. I had my neighbor's tree fall in my yard but thankfully, missed my house. I'm temporarily at my inlaws as we don't anticipate getting power back any time soon. My husband works in Finance and I know they are frantically preparing for the markets to open tomorrow. He has been working for the past 2 days behind the scenes even though the stock exchange is closed.

Some of my coworkers did not fare so well. One lost all 4 of her cars (not sure why she has 4) from a downed tree which fell on her driveway. AT least it did not harm her or her family. Another coworker in Hoboken had her building completely flooded and had to be evacuated by the National Guard . It's very crazy here but I consider myself lucky as my friends and family are safe.

[ny biker]

Did you grow up in Bayville? I'm from a few miles from there. My friend lives there now, and they always evacuate during big storms. I just read that Bayville Ave has partially washed away. I hope your parents aren't stranded! I'm pretty sure the rest of my family on the north shore is just without power, although there is always concern for the big old trees.

I hope your friend's house was not damaged.

I did grow up in Bayville. I think it was West Shore Rd in Mill Neck that partially collapsed. But the Bayville Bridge is closed because Shore Rd is closed. For a time during the storm Bayville Ave was flooded at the other end of town so everyone was cut off, but that road is open now so it's possible to get in and out of town through Locust Valley. I did read that the causeway was blocked and there's no access to Center Island.

And I've seen photos of shrimp floating in flood waters on the roads. I had no idea there was shrimp in Oyster Bay until today.

I spent a fair amount of time this afternoon searching news sites for information about storm damage. I even registered for Newsday's website using my parents' subscription. My sister has to work tomorrow (she's a nurse) so I was checking road conditions for her commute since she has no electricity or internet. She also needed to know if one son's college was open tomorrow (it's not) and if the other would be able to drive back to his school in New Haven (looks like he can since they re-opened the bridges). I was also texting information about closed roads to my parents, for when they want to try to leave the house.

Everyone in my family that was affected by the storm is safe, though some cousins had some problems -- two had houses on the south shore of LI that flooded, and the restaurant where one worked was damaged by fire. But for the most part the news has been good.

I also had some sad non-storm news today -- there was a fire in one of the condos in my neighborhood and one man died. I knew him, and I'm friends with the women who lives in the unit below his. She's now displaced due to damage to her home.

I've been working from home but I had to take a long break this afternoon. Between the anxiety from the storm and the awful news about my neighbors I was just tired. So I wound up working until 10 pm to make up for the break.

I'm glad everyone so far is okay. I'm concerned about Pam and her dog, though. I hope she's just muddling through the power outage and we'll hear from her soon.

[Selkie]

We lost power for 37 hours, just restored late this morning. No damage to the house, cars, etc. Since we are surrounded by tall, old oaks, we were concerned about falling trees/limbs. The house got progressively colder, the longer we were without power, so I ended up swimming two hours this morning. Took a long hot shower at the pool and was loathe to return to the cold house.

Two blocks east, a big old oak fell on a house, Pretty much destroyed it.

Hope everyone else impacted by Sandy is doing ok, particularly those in NJ and NY.