Oh Sandy... (Page 2)

Mom's gonna Mom.

Lucy's FB page also says she's still standing.

I've told her a hundred million times to stop exaggerating. Man I'm kind of glad we sold the shore house, it's a wreck down there. We were right on a lagoon and the flooding there is intense.

My boyfriend's hometown. Thankfully, both of our famalies in the Philly area are safe - and his family doesn't live in Seaside Heights anymore.

WOW...... just.  WOW!

Sure that isn't Camden BEFORE the storm?

Nah. The water is too clean and I don't see people with guns.

disregard

What is this a picture of? Is that a roller coaster? I saw this on the news and don't understand it. How did it get so far out to sea? The surge is up that high or was it swept out?

I have seen my share of hurricanes, but we are lucky not to get large storm surges here due to deep water right offshore.

Used to look like this:

I heard earlier today that there's another town (near Brick, N.J., maybe) that's burning but crews can't get to it because the town's been cut off by flood waters. I heard that several hours ago, but haven't heard any updates. What happened at Breezy Point was just terrible. That same town suffered terrible loss on 9/11 as many of its residents are fire fighters.

Did anyone see ABC World News Tonight last night? That segment about how they evacuated patients from NYU Medical Center (back-up generators failed) was really inspiring. So great to see an emergency plan put into place and come together successfully through the hard work of hundreds of people.

Unions do a lot of good for many of those they represent, but it is times like this that I relish the thought of every last union getting busted up.

Update.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/non-union_utility_crew_from_al.html

Was just going to post the same thing.

Here is the important part:

Jersey Central Power & Light spokesman Ron Morano said in an interview with News 12 New Jersey that JCP&L has welcomed all out-of-state crews.

"We have not turned away any help," he said. "Absolutely not."

Hopefully that is true the the story is a rumor. 

I like how the JCP&L guy threw the municipal guys under the bus...

A Jersey Central Power & Light spokesman.... did suggest that municipal companies might have issues working side-by-side with non-unionized contractors.

I've been asked to leave union job sites in NJ, even though I was an authorized non-union sub contractor. This doesn't surprise me.

As I'm watching various headlines and listening to the radio talking about NYC continuing to melt down.  I wonder if it's going to come back to bite the President over the weekend.

He pretty much took ownership of the relief effort and I honestly think did do a good job out of the gate.  However, if things continue to melt down I'm wondering if he will he get bogged down in the muck.  Bush obviously got a lot of crap for Katrina going to pot.

Maybe it is too close to the election and doesn't matter.  Just wondering what you guys think.

It is all of 3 days after the incident.  You really think things are melting down like they did in NO?

No, not at all, NO will likely likely never be topped.

I'm mostly referring to the impact on the people that's been on the news the last day or so.  no food, no water, no power, no transportation.  Obama made it a point to state that he was in charge of the disaster relief and things were going to go well.  If they don't go well the next few days I'm just wondering if you guys thought it would/could effect him.

Ironically Obama heads straight to Vegas again after his tour of NJ.  Somebody wasn't thinking on that one after Benghazi.

Interesting, I'm sure more will come out on this story.  Here's an interview with one of the crew leaders who was turned away.

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1942089923001