On October 29 2012 23:06 DueleR wrote: lol, I live in low lying area of NYC (Battery Park, right next to the Hudson river) in a mandatory evacuation zone.Was too lazy to leave though, and I wanted to enjoy my day off from work by staying in my apartment. Hoping it's not going to be too bad!
Rain didn't start til late last night, and the rain itself isn't that bad yet. But my window looks out over the Hudson, and it definitely looks like the winds are pretty strong.
Question... and this may be a dumb one, so I apologize... but doesn't a "mandatory" evacuation zone imply that you're forced to go somewhere else? Can you get in trouble with the law if you don't?
You're supposed to, but there's no way they have the time or resources to round up all ~375,000 who live in the evacuation zones. I would say about 1/3 of my building stayed behind. You really just can't be seen out in the street - there are NYPD trucks riding around with megaphones telling people to get out of the area, but you don't get in legal trouble for staying.
Yeah...... I live 10 minutes outside of Atlantic City. All the shores have evacuated. Atlantic City and most of the shore towns are already under water and the hurricane hasn't even hit yet.
On October 29 2012 23:50 Metal[x] wrote: this shit looks weak so far. I'm in Philly. I want it to be so bad by 4pm that I can have the excuse of not going into work. -_-
Don't worry by 4pm you'll have solid tropical storm winds and by 10pm tonight you'll have 90mph+ gusts. glhf.
People who ignored to evacuate in coastal areas of DE/NJ are going to be regretting it big time when 25 foot waves are going to literally be taller than coastal buildings and bridges go down. Like literally there could be mass deaths depending on who didn't leave high risk areas.
12pm and I still have power here just outside of DC, and more importantly, internet! Christ I hope my legendary power grid holds up or bad things are gonna start happening here.
On October 29 2012 23:06 DueleR wrote: lol, I live in low lying area of NYC (Battery Park, right next to the Hudson river) in a mandatory evacuation zone. Was too lazy to leave though, and I wanted to enjoy my day off from work by staying in my apartment. Hoping it's not going to be too bad!
Rain didn't start til late last night, and the rain itself isn't that bad yet. But my window looks out over the Hudson, and it definitely looks like the winds are pretty strong.
On October 29 2012 23:50 Metal[x] wrote: this shit looks weak so far. I'm in Philly. I want it to be so bad by 4pm that I can have the excuse of not going into work. -_-
Don't worry by 4pm you'll have solid tropical storm winds and by 10pm tonight you'll have 90mph+ gusts. glhf.
People who ignored to evacuate in coastal areas of DE/NJ are going to be regretting it big time when 25 foot waves are going to literally be taller than coastal buildings and bridges go down. Like literally there could be mass deaths depending on who didn't leave high risk areas.
Where the fuck do you work that they would make you work then LOL. It's literally life threatening conditions to be driving/walking/doing anything outside during those times.
On October 29 2012 23:06 DueleR wrote: lol, I live in low lying area of NYC (Battery Park, right next to the Hudson river) in a mandatory evacuation zone. Was too lazy to leave though, and I wanted to enjoy my day off from work by staying in my apartment. Hoping it's not going to be too bad!
Rain didn't start til late last night, and the rain itself isn't that bad yet. But my window looks out over the Hudson, and it definitely looks like the winds are pretty strong.
Guys, I envy you so much. We get almost no extreme weather here It's so cool to watch all this nature power in its best. Sure, it is also dangerous, but you can do a lot to help keeping yourselves safe, as you get the warning ahead.
Last time we had a reasonable natural disaster was 2002 floods.
On October 30 2012 02:39 opisska wrote: Guys, I envy you so much. We get almost no extreme weather here It's so cool to watch all this nature power in its best. Sure, it is also dangerous, but you can do a lot to help keeping yourselves safe, as you get the warning ahead.
Last time we had a reasonable natural disaster was 2002 floods.
I remember being in Florida once and seeing a "Hurricane" (turned out it was just a smaller thing that dissolved rather quickly) live, that shit is still scary as hell.
Some days it just feels like the best choice I ever made to leave the east coast of the states and move to Canada. Best of luck to all my east coast TL brethren and family though.
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