Thread: Stay Safe Out There-Huricane Sandy

God's speed to all of our folks and their families who will have to face this event. You will be in our hearts and prayers.

Originally Posted by earcutter

^^ that's just sad ^^^

That could easily kill someone.

Mostly nervous laughter on my part. I spent yesterday clearing my yard of anything that could turn into a projectile and someone leaves that sail out in the open and it kites its way into the power lines and just hangs out there. We're all joking about that trampoline over here but if it had hit someone's house we probably wouldn't have found it as funny. We're not used to big storms in MD so I'm really hoping not to many more people forgot to do a sweep of their yard for anything that could take flight.

Originally Posted by Steelstubble

Mostly nervous laughter on my part. I spent yesterday clearing my yard of anything that could turn into a projectile and someone leaves that sail out in the open and it kites its way into the power lines and just hangs out there. We're all joking about that trampoline over here but if it had hit someone's house we probably wouldn't have found it as funny. We're not used to big storms in MD so I'm really hoping not to many more people forgot to do a sweep of their yard for anything that could take flight.

Living in KS., I have seen those things fly before. Once over my back yard. It's not cool, but here in KS you can't get too mad... you just never know when the wind's going to blow. But it's not like we didn't know things were going to get bad out east... be safe guys. I have lived through 3 of those things in Jamaica - they can get crazy within seconds, and with no notice.

P.S. My dad lost part of his big toe during a hurricane. A poolside tables umbrella of all things fell out of the sky and landed on it.

Gettin bad now. My friend in Nashua is a fireman. 31 calls today for his unit alone. Says he has seen more lines and trees down than anytime in his career(25 years). Just spoke with Tarkus (Darl) in Philly. He is moppin the basement and says the wires are swinging, raining sideways. We know about this down here. It is no joke! A bunch of our power trucks left yesterday, bound for there.
Godspeed to all effected. Thoughts and prayers.
Tom

FP&L ( Florida Power & Light) has teams there & more on the way. These guys often work miracles in getting things put back in order. They earn their money. Great guys.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

FP&L ( Florida Power & Light) has teams there & more on the way. These guys often work miracles in getting things put back in order. They earn their money. Great guys.

They have their work cut out, I've seen 6 transformers blow in just my area. The lines outside the house were sparking where the separators are.

We're grateful for their help!

The last hurricane here, we had guys from Tenessee in our neighborhood. Folks from everywhere were working hard!
Still, I was out at home and work for 2 weeks! A monumental job, to restore what has been ongoing for decades!
I understand techniques and materials differ, as well as grid constuction. They must adapt to the place they are in!
Bless them.

Originally Posted by Steelstubble

At least the storm has a sense of humor in my area, and dagnabit people batten down the hatches. Attachment 110660

Thats not funny but it is i remember one time up here on the mountin we got a horrid storm and we had just moved in so we knew nothing about how bad the wind gets on a mountain, our trampline flipped up and was pinned on the power lines between the house and shed. the wind was too strong for 2 of us to get the (sail) flipped back up so i had to run inside and get my hunting knife and litterly climb up it and slash the center right out of it so we could flipp it down so it dident rip the lines. needles to say my younger siblings were not happy that i cut it.

Originally Posted by Steelstubble

Also its good fun watching all my friends and family with Iphones and their texting freak right the heck out when they're cut off from it.

Actually text messages are probably the best way to communicate during a disaster. When the cell towers are flooded with people trying to use voice, SMS is likely to go through.

well guys the worst is over here in pa, up here we lost one light post in the front yard, sheared it off and a few shingles from the shed came off over all not to bad hopefully everyone else made it thru