umestazzuele wrote:
Does anyone know what the driving situation is like around 10th & Jersey? Been camping out at a friend's house in PA since Saturday, but I was hoping to head back today since it sounds like I might have power back in my place...

CatDog wrote:
I think you need to call PSE&G to ask about that. Hopefully the lines won't be jammed.

Are there any volunteer efforts around town or in Hoboken? I'd like to help out during my free time if possible.

Azul_the_Cat wrote:
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Just saw this fyi for those in town:

https://twitter.com/jcindependent/status/263272826973343745
Attention Jersey City: The water is NOT safe to drink unless boiled.

Any other source for this? There is no alert on the united water website. So far it looks like this us the only news source saying the water is bad.

trees wrote:
I'm out of town and trying to get a sense of what things look like on the ground, particularly by Pacific Ave in back of Liberty State Park. Anybody able to get online from around there? Is there power? Roads flooded? How easy or difficult is it to get in at this point? Via which main roads? Thanks for the help?

jcity wrote:
Having a difficult time estimating how high the water will get in downtown. We live near city hall - corner of Marin Blvd and Mercer. During Irene, we had 3 feet in the basement. What should we expect now?

Is this something where those on the "parlor" level of a brownstone should be concerned? We are on the first floor - but that's a good 5 feet above street level.

Thoughts?

Moto wrote:
Has anyone heard if the mall is offering a discount day rate? My car is one of my only assets I'm not sure if I'm taking too much of a risk keeping it on Hamilton Park...

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pinkydapimp wrote:
saw this on FB:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbi ... 7583470121&type=1&theater

Flooding in wildwood. Not even raining!

The barrier islands areas are basically glorified sandbars. It doesn't take much of a surge to inundate them.

NOAA updated the storm path farther south. This drops rain totals for us under 5 inches, but ups the storm surge. They are 9 to 11 ft surge. A good part of Hoboken and a lot of the waterfront is less than 5 ft above sea level.

ladybert wrote:
did anyone put their car in a parking deck for irene? where, and how much did it cost?

during irene i evacuated, but would rather just stay and put my car somewhere safe for this one...

Azul_the_Cat wrote:
Yes this is a big storm, but picking the worst paragraph out a 2 page article can make anything look bad. Here are some other choice paragraphs:

There’s reason to believe the models may be overdoing it. First off, what’s happening right now doesn’t have a clear precedence in the weather records. Our best available number-crunching simulations of the atmosphere simply weren’t designed for this scenario.

The Hydrometeorological Prediction Center — the same folks at the National Weather Service that gave Sandy its “Frankenstorm” name — have had to manually adjust their official forecasts to tone down the exceptional scenarios that the weather models are currently showing.

Right now, the most reliable model tracks have clustered in a relatively tight range from Delaware to New York City. Counterintuitively, should the center of the storm make a direct strike on New York City, the city may actually be spared some of the more serious coastal impacts from the storm.

Should Sandy veer further north of its current track and make landfall right over the city, storm surge could be dramatically lessened, though the city could receive about double the amount of rainfall — up to a foot or more.

For these reasons, if I were a resident of New York right now, I’d be rooting for a direct hit. If given a choice, I’d take 12 inches of rain over six feet of coastal flooding any day.



Will there be some flooding? Yes.
Will we lose power? Depends on where you live, but it a real possibility.
Are windows going to get blown out? No
Is this going to be like New Orleans after Katrina? No way.