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Aug. 28th, 2011 03:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* A nuclear Reactor on the Chesapeake Bay went down due to an aluminum panel ripped free by wind hitting a transformer, but it sounds like the cooling system kept working.
* At the time I wrote this the hurricane death toll was only ten, mostly people hit by trees or debris. Again, this could have been so much worse.
* Five NYC hospitals were evacuated due to flood risk. This makes sense to me. Loss of power kills. best to move in advance than risk trying to do it in a hurry in emergency.
* People waiting for the storm, in areas where the storm is, and in areas it has already passed are advised to stay the fuck inside and out of the way of first responders, falling trees, and downed electrical wires.
* They expect it to be a tropical storm by the time it hits Boston, and pretty much just rain by the time it hits Canada.
* Flooding and power outages continue to be an issue, and likely will for days after the storm passes.
* More than a million people in North Carolina and Virginia are without power.
* People wishing to help, might want to donate to the Red Cross, as they are already serving the areas hardest hit.
* They have footage of the shops in downtown Annapolis surrounded by sand bags. Storefronts I actually remember from College, with that characteristic patterned brick paving. (New readers: I did just over two years at St. John's as a philosophy monk, not the naval Academy). The down town is right on the water, with docks for boats right there. It is easy to imagine the sort of danger high water could do. I have no love for that town, as it's pretty much the armpit of the East coast, but I wish those shop and restaurant owners well, as college there would have been hell without those small businesses. It is seriously weird seeing somewhere I have lived and recognize in disaster footage.
* The flooding footage from Philly was less visceral to me, as Downtown has changed so much as to be barely recognizable. They say Manayunk is flooding, the area we commuted through every day of school after we inhereted the Aunt's house. In my memory it is a long traffic jamb either way, past crumbling brownstones and the occasional pub. I didn't see any footage though. The road was one property length from the river. And the ground rises sharply on the other side of the road. I hope those families along the river are safe. I am having trouble processing the idea of the Schuylkill flooding, of boathouse row doused by muddy water. I wonder if they are okay in the the low lying areas of Conchie.
* It is surreal watching the storm from so far away. We've been alternating pleasantly warm days with gentle rain for weeks. Our fall rains aren't here yet, nor are the Autumn winds off the bay. It's been hard reconciling shorts weather with the footage from back east.
* The footage of the evacuated Jersey Shore is so bizarre to me. Remember that my father's family is from New Jersey. Many of my cousins worked boardwalk summer jobs in high school. We used to go every summer for a while. My Father favoured Brigantine, with day trips to Ocean City. My Mother and Grandmom Hazel used to take us to Wildwood other times, as there was a hotel right on the boardwalk that meant Aunt Heidi could have some independence. My cousins and I would run free, looking out for younger siblings. I've not spent much time at Atlantic City, but I've been a few times, though never to gamble. It is so strange seeing it empty and deserted before Labor day.
(Clarification: My Father's extended family is extremely extended. When I said cousins, above, not all of them are exactly cousins and the age rage is huge. My Father was Grandmom Hazel's second child. For example, my "cousin" Angel was my Father's older sister's great grand child and she was about a year younger than me. I have no idea what you'd call that, so we just said cousins. Similarly, anyone descended from one or more of my Grand parents, and more than ten years older than me was "Aunt" or "Uncle," even if the individual was actually cousin. This does not even get into the even further extended family on both sides, descended from various Great or Great Great Grandparents, who we saw more rarely and whom we generally all had to do mutual introductions as everyone looked different after a few years.)
* At the time I wrote this the hurricane death toll was only ten, mostly people hit by trees or debris. Again, this could have been so much worse.
* Five NYC hospitals were evacuated due to flood risk. This makes sense to me. Loss of power kills. best to move in advance than risk trying to do it in a hurry in emergency.
* People waiting for the storm, in areas where the storm is, and in areas it has already passed are advised to stay the fuck inside and out of the way of first responders, falling trees, and downed electrical wires.
* They expect it to be a tropical storm by the time it hits Boston, and pretty much just rain by the time it hits Canada.
* Flooding and power outages continue to be an issue, and likely will for days after the storm passes.
* More than a million people in North Carolina and Virginia are without power.
* People wishing to help, might want to donate to the Red Cross, as they are already serving the areas hardest hit.
* They have footage of the shops in downtown Annapolis surrounded by sand bags. Storefronts I actually remember from College, with that characteristic patterned brick paving. (New readers: I did just over two years at St. John's as a philosophy monk, not the naval Academy). The down town is right on the water, with docks for boats right there. It is easy to imagine the sort of danger high water could do. I have no love for that town, as it's pretty much the armpit of the East coast, but I wish those shop and restaurant owners well, as college there would have been hell without those small businesses. It is seriously weird seeing somewhere I have lived and recognize in disaster footage.
* The flooding footage from Philly was less visceral to me, as Downtown has changed so much as to be barely recognizable. They say Manayunk is flooding, the area we commuted through every day of school after we inhereted the Aunt's house. In my memory it is a long traffic jamb either way, past crumbling brownstones and the occasional pub. I didn't see any footage though. The road was one property length from the river. And the ground rises sharply on the other side of the road. I hope those families along the river are safe. I am having trouble processing the idea of the Schuylkill flooding, of boathouse row doused by muddy water. I wonder if they are okay in the the low lying areas of Conchie.
* It is surreal watching the storm from so far away. We've been alternating pleasantly warm days with gentle rain for weeks. Our fall rains aren't here yet, nor are the Autumn winds off the bay. It's been hard reconciling shorts weather with the footage from back east.
* The footage of the evacuated Jersey Shore is so bizarre to me. Remember that my father's family is from New Jersey. Many of my cousins worked boardwalk summer jobs in high school. We used to go every summer for a while. My Father favoured Brigantine, with day trips to Ocean City. My Mother and Grandmom Hazel used to take us to Wildwood other times, as there was a hotel right on the boardwalk that meant Aunt Heidi could have some independence. My cousins and I would run free, looking out for younger siblings. I've not spent much time at Atlantic City, but I've been a few times, though never to gamble. It is so strange seeing it empty and deserted before Labor day.
(Clarification: My Father's extended family is extremely extended. When I said cousins, above, not all of them are exactly cousins and the age rage is huge. My Father was Grandmom Hazel's second child. For example, my "cousin" Angel was my Father's older sister's great grand child and she was about a year younger than me. I have no idea what you'd call that, so we just said cousins. Similarly, anyone descended from one or more of my Grand parents, and more than ten years older than me was "Aunt" or "Uncle," even if the individual was actually cousin. This does not even get into the even further extended family on both sides, descended from various Great or Great Great Grandparents, who we saw more rarely and whom we generally all had to do mutual introductions as everyone looked different after a few years.)