Damage seems to be spotty in those states. Those numbers don't include NC, VA, PA, DE or CT.
A similarly large number in NJ were affected. On Long Island alone, the authorities estimate 100,000 homes and commercial buildings were damaged or destroyed (not sure if that includes parts of NYCity, e.g., Brooklyn and Queens).
300 miles of coastline affectedĪctually, about 350 to 400 miles of coastline just in NJ and Long Island were affected - flooded and/or affected by high wind. I lived through hurricane Carla in houston. It covered a large area and as was mentioned earlier that makes restoral efforts slower since you can't concentrate crews in a small area. I hate it when things like this get so exaggerated. It was still only a category 1 hurricane and did damage expected of a cat 1 hurricane, no worse. One last note: The President's approval rating has now moved into positive territory. Polls in Ohio (which just missed the brunt of Sandy) are moving even further from Romney, and Florida (which has far too much experience with hurricanes) are moving in the direction of Obama (but still training Romney). Romney's past words on FEMA don't help his cause. There's no way that New Jersey or New York could handle the extreme damage to those states without federal assistance. Maybe not a big federal government, but not a "turn everything over to the states" federal government, either. Sandy has upstaged Romney, showing the need for a strong federal government with respect to emergencies. Since Sandy hit just a week before the election, people who are still without power on election day aren't quite so prone to take it out on the powers that be in the election as they would have been had it hit a week earlier. Obama in the news for these last few critical days before the election. Now in 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit just at the right time to give a boost to Obama. The 2008 economic collapse hit early and hard enough, and then kept on collapsing, making a victory for McCain all but impossible. It's looking like this may well have been the October surprise. Is this the October surprise for this election? Just in our neighborhood, we had tree cutting crews hauled in from Tennessee and Minnesota working on clearing the damage, power crews from California and North Carolina working on restoring power. It takes a bit of time to get all those people on board. They'll instead have come in from all parts of the country to help out. You don't have enough such people on the Eastern seaboard. It takes a lot of people to cut down all the trees that caused the damage, a lot more to restore the power lines once the trees are cleared. Count your blessings if it is quick less than a week is quick. Don't get your hopes up for a quick recovery. The lowest priority: Residential housing. Major industry and downtowns comes first, then other concentrated work areas, shopping areas and gas stations, and then little businesses. The next priority is to get the economy rolling again. Hospitals, fire stations, and police stations get top priority because the first thing that has to be done after a major storm is to make things safe. You are at the bottom of the pecking order unless you're lucky and happen to live in the same subgrid as a hospital, fire station, police station, or major industry. It's going to take quite some time to get power back up for everyone who lost it. The widespread nature of that damage will make logistics much more difficult. The damage from Sandy is extremely widespread. Ike and Sandy resulted in similar numbers of people losing power, but with Ike the greatest damage was concentrated in a few counties in Texas. I wouldn't be at all surprised if next Friday you report "Here it is Friday yet again and still no power." We were without power for over six days thanks to Hurricane Ike. You can see how the water washed away some of the ground. It was still closed off when I was walking today. I guess during the surge it was probably covered with water.
No idea what that is, but I guess it blew up from the river? Especially where the trees fell across the road. Many places had trees removed already and there were just gaping holes left behind. The park was closed for the storm so no one got hurt there, but the whole place was pretty much a mess.Īlso Riverside Park. Riverside park a couple blocks from my house. Bridges and tunnels are closed too, so I'm pretty much stuck on the island. Not a very exciting photo, but subway could be closed for the rest of the week. Saw a lot of tree branches on top of cars today. This is near Broadway and 100th st I think. I saw a few buildings with some damaged roofs but the photos didn't turn out well. I live in uptown NYC which is basically up on a hill so it wasn't too terrible, and definitely less flooding than downtown.
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