Sandy

It was a non-event in my immediate hood. Had a fun jeeb with Dan Fredman here. A few blocks north of me and east of 1st Avenue there was some flooding, I think around 89th-95th street. South of 40th Street street in the city is another story, though. I believe there's still mostly no power south of there, which also means no water. It's going to be a while before they get subways back up and running due to the flooding.

I heard a transformer blew on Leonard St. due to the flooding, which I think is a block away from Dougherty and I think that sucky winemaker Texier is staying with him, too.
 
I walked up 6th ave to Times Square this AM; lights were on from 26th Street north.

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I wonder whether the various wine storage places, e.g., Chelsea, have back-up power. (Mine is in Queens; and I have no idea if there is power generally in its neighborhood.)

I may need to keep the windows open at home: the bottles in the apartment will take priority over the human inhabitents. we can wear sweaters.
 
Watched some pretty horrific footage from Queens (fires) and coastal New Jersey (flooding) this morning. We had no real discomfort down where I am, barely lost power, but the damage up the coast looks stupendous.
 
Uptown Manhattan has fared well, considering. We never lost power. Lots of trees down tho, and (like everywhere) surprisingly deep flooding along the waterfront.

We played ping pong while finishing off a 97 Closel Cuvee Isa and a Pinon Rose.
 
Boston area escaped major damage (at least my neighborhood, which is far away from the coast)... we had one 2 minute power outage when a nearby transformer blew but not much else. Sis-in-law in Park Slope seemingly escaped major problems as well. It'll clearly be awhile before lower Manhattan and lots of Jersey gets out from under.
 
Chelsea Wine Storage has power backup.

In my part of Brooklyn there was no flooding and only a single tree down. Lots of leaves and branches down, of course.

We lost cable/phone/internet around 8pm last night but power remained on. The services were back on when I got up.

Local food stores have been picked clean. Several restos are open.

Saw the Mayor and the Governor talk on the TV earlier. Power is available below 39th St only sporadically. All 7 subway tunnels under the East River are flooded; they are pumping now. Some time last night, the mayor said he was traveling on 34th St and he encountered the East River between 1st and 2nd Ave.
 
Rough time all the way down in the financial district. We had no power or water from about 7:30 pm last night and won't for another day or so. Floods destroyed shops and restaurants on the ground floor and uprooted the precious few trees that used to exist down here. Our cell reception went out as well despite having fully charged our phones in anticipation of losing power (note to self: ditch AT&T at the next opportunity). We were completely cut off from the outside world. Back to the stone age. Fortunately, we finished cooking a simple, early dinner minutes before the power went out. During that, we polished off a bottle of 2011 Lauer Schonfels, which is a lovely Riesling that would appeal to a wide range of people, with just a touch of sweetness (in the wine, that is - I don't know about the people). Next, we sipped a half-bottle of 2001 Muller Catoir Mussbacher Eselshaut Riesling Auslese over a candle-lit game of cribbage.

We got up this morning and descended eleven flights of stairs to get information and take stock of the carnage. Fortunately some friends with water and power further uptown were kind enough to take us in, as it is not pretty all the way downtown.
 
hope the cleanup goes well for everyone. it was scary watching the updates over the past 48 hours.

over here in the midwest, lake michigan is supposed to have 17-22ft waves tonight/tomorrow with flooding predicted for low-lying coastal areas. should be interesting...
 
No power, water, web, or cell service at CNDJ. I bail to Brooklyn for a bit.

Odd long walk north to work today through nearly-empty downtown. No stoplights on Park Ave until the 40s, though Park seemed to have them in the high 20s.

But everyone is safe.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
No power, water, web, or cell service at CNDJ. I bail to Brooklyn for a bit.

Odd long walk north to work today through nearly-empty downtown. No stoplights on Park Ave until the 40s, though Park seemed to have them in the high 20s.

But everyone is safe.
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Excellent news.

How are the Texiers enjoying hurricane season?
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by SFJoe:
No power, water, web, or cell service at CNDJ. I bail to Brooklyn for a bit.

Odd long walk north to work today through nearly-empty downtown. No stoplights on Park Ave until the 40s, though Park seemed to have them in the high 20s.

But everyone is safe.
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Excellent news.

How are the Texiers enjoying hurricane season?
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They say that at home, they have real windstorms. Something about a mistral.
 
I think mistral is typically 50 kph with gusts to 90 kph. That's 31 mph gusting to 56 mph... a bit less than Sandy (though not all that much less).
 
I think mistral is typically 50 kph with gusts to 90 kph.
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"Gust at 158 km/h clocked at Bec de l'Aigle" - a few days ago, from a Facebook friend who lives in Provence (with photo).
 
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Nasa Observatory photo.
 
Didn't mean to liken the latest mistral to what New York just went through, but it was blowing uncommonly hard.
 
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