I've been reading and listening to some rough stories of the eastern seaboard taking what seems to be as bad a hit as the gulf coast. Just thought I'd see if folks are doing ok - hopefully not taking swim lesssons in your rides.
I've been reading and listening to some rough stories of the eastern seaboard taking what seems to be as bad a hit as the gulf coast. Just thought I'd see if folks are doing ok - hopefully not taking swim lesssons in your rides.
Not much here, bunch of rain in Saratoga, NY. My brother is in NJ where they have a state of emergency, my son is in Norwalk, CT where he got 2" of water in his basement bubbling up from below. But he's at the TOP of the hill.
Woody, how you doing?
I'm in Lower Bucks Co, near the Delaware River, a bit north of Philly. The bulk of the storm passed to the north of me but I still got over 5" of rain. There was a tornado a few miles away from me to the east - this is after a tornado severely damaged a car dealership a few miles to the west of me about a month ago. The large creek near me is over its banks and has flooded out a few buildings, but nothing out of the ordinary - water levels are similar to when Sandy came through. Otherwise, it wasn't as bad as Sandy. My power didn't even blip.
Philly normally
Philly currently apparently, the same road as above
That's a pretty river running through town there!
One of my 150 cousins just posted up a picture from Staten Island and the streets are about 18"-24" deep. I'm sure some places are inaccessible.
Tom1200 said:One of my 150 cousins just posted up a picture from Staten Island and the streets are about 18"-24" deep. I'm sure some places are inaccessible.
Huge amount of basement apartments in NYC and surrounding areas as well.
Weird coincidence, place I interviewed with yesterday does flood mitigation. They are currently wrapping up a project for the Port Authority and one of the tunnels up there.
My parents got caught in a flood in the Bronx when the car in front stalled out. Water ended up up to the door handles, with intrusion up the seat cushions. Car was basically floating during the worst of it. Four hours later (water was down by then) NYPD got them out and to the precinct house, and I got them from there. They're fine now, but certainly not a pleasant experience. Insurance agent said he had put in 60+ claims this morning, and the local Audi dealer told me that Audi Greenwich lost 70 cars.
Oh, they're also getting a new Audi. Should be home with it in an hour or so.
We're good, my drive home yesterday got pretty berkeleying dicey but I made it. A friend in NJ posted this from the lower level of his parking garage:
I wonder what Seinfelds garage looks like ?
is it below ground level ?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ said:We're good, my drive home yesterday got pretty berkeleying dicey but I made it. A friend in NJ posted this from the lower level of his parking garage:
beat me to it.
btw, Dan is on here - user name is paperpaper or somethign like that.
His garage from the outside:
and his e30 that he moved aboveground just in time, still flooded up to the seat bases later after this photo. Luckily his e30 rally car was still up in NH.
I have a cousin in Pa that had a tornado hit her house. Nobody hurt bit it tore up the house pretty good.
Down in Delaware, DW and I are fine; our house sits up a little and all we got was a few inches of water in the basement. We were able to get home without crossing deep water, but our neighborhood does kind of have low points on all sides.
DD#1 lives in Philly, not all that far from the flooding shown above. Her place is in an apartment building and her cars are in a parking structure a few levels up, but the entrance to her complex was flooded and she was stuck at home, I believe.
The poorer sections of downtown Wilmington are all flooded, unfortunately. So are the rich sections north of the city and into SEPA.
The valley the new house is in seems to miss a lot of weather somehow. Weather reports called for an apocalypse, the creek was only a foot higher than normal. At the other end of the valley, different story. But nothing like eastern PA.
The old house had water up to the porch, second time in 34 years that's happened. 80 horizontal feet, maybe 15 feet difference in elevation from the creek there, but that house is at the bottom of 3 hills and there's a lake up one hill that feeds the stream.
Tom1200 said:One of my 150 cousins just posted up a picture from Staten Island and the streets are about 18"-24" deep. I'm sure some places are inaccessible.
My brother-in law, and my nephew got feet of water in their basements, on Staten Island. My 2 kids got away unscathed. Here in Delaware County, NY, not too bad, just my driveway needs a little touching up.
Really glad to hear that folks on here all seem to be OK! We're grateful and fortunate to be safe and in much better shape than others. We are about 20 miles north of New York City, just south of the Connecticut border in a town bisected by "Blind Brook". Because of a huge catchment area, the the brook floods in even moderate rains and havoc ensues. We moved into a new house in our same town two days before Herve hit; during that storm some basement window wells flooded because the shiny happy PO didnt clean/repair the gutters. I was pretty upset at the time, but in hindsight it was probably a good thing because we were able to by some pumps and clean/repair gutters before Ida.
Things here are nothing like in New Orleans, which I can well imagine after living through Andrew 30 years ago. The strangest thing is that because of the topography some people were completely unaffected, and as early as 11am yesterday much if not most of the town looked unscathed. I thought I'd share some pics for posterity:
This is the commuter train lot where I parked daily pre-COVID. The people who live across the street say water crested 4 feet *above* the top of the sign in the center background of the pic, and you can see the wet pavement uphill. I suspect a wave of baby cars from all the Dragoning during the storm.
It sounds like Ida was particularly hard on Audis. Two very nice ones lived in our neighbor's garage. They told us the water reached a couple feet below the top of their garage door. This is about 2 miles from the first pic.
Three blocks away, friends of ours had just finished a major "live in" renovation in the house immediately to he left of the dumpster. After 1.5 years they were down to punch list... This pic is after the water had receded about 40 yards down the street.
On the PLUS side, we have had a very special 4 legged guest + family staying with us since the night of the storm. Her family lives in our old neighborhood, 3 houses from the brook. An upstream release made the brook violently breach its banks, and after water reached their ground floor I went to pick them up. It was really freaky wading through belly-deep water on a street I'd walked thousands of time, with current tugging at our legs. Water is amazingly powerful; later that night the current knocked down two women who were fleeing a flooded ground floor apartment. They ended up trapped on top of a jeep until rescued by a good samaritan driving a backhoe or other large piece of equipment. I dont have pics, but the top 4" of tarmac were torn off a city block length of street.
This is the "lake" by my house. The dam was created to back up the flood waters, normally it's just a small stream. This closes two heavily used roads by my house, which makes my road into a very busy one.
A little water in my basement but overall nothing bad.
We came out unscathed other than a very wet yard but the tornado hit about 2mi from where we are. It is amazing how bad even a "little" one can be.
Mr_Asa said:Philly normally
Philly currently apparently, the same road as above
Looking more like Chicago momentarily. Yikes that is a lot of water.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ said:We're good, my drive home yesterday got pretty berkeleying dicey but I made it. A friend in NJ posted this from the lower level of his parking garage:
Soon to be great deal on a pair of 911's?
In reply to 914Driver :
All good up here on the hill.
Thank you for your concern.
I knew the guy that died in this one. The truck went 1.5 miles in a stream before it got stuck in Milford NJ.
84FSP said:¯\_(ツ)_/¯ said:We're good, my drive home yesterday got pretty berkeleying dicey but I made it. A friend in NJ posted this from the lower level of his parking garage:
Soon to be great deal on a pair of 911's?
It's interesting that the one floated and the other didn't.
In reply to adam525i :
Porsche charges extra for the flotation option.
In reply to adam525i :
Air pressure adjustment after the last track session?
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