Anyone currently posting in Brooklyn? What's the hurricane situation?

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  • #598954
    WIY
    Member

    Im currently upstate. If anyone is in Brooklyn please fill us in on what things are looking like and what you are dealing with over there. Here it is just raining non-stop but the wind is tame.

    #804722
    Tomche
    Member

    Same in Brooklyn (currently).

    #804723
    CR 1
    Member

    its getting pretty windy in flatbush i cant believe they closed the casinos and bars

    #804724
    WIY
    Member

    Thanks

    #804725

    lol CR1, I hope you’re joking right?

    #804726
    LemonySnicket
    Participant

    It’s raining heavily and pretty windy but so far not too terrible. My basement is getting flooded up though.

    #804727
    TweetTweet
    Participant

    Extremely windy now in Brooklyn with heavy rain. So far gusts have reached up to 45mph. There are tree branches scattered all over the streets, and it’s only going to get worse over the next few hours.

    #804728
    Sam2
    Participant

    I personally don’t want to see any more updates. No one should be outside or near a window to see this. It’s just silly and not safe. Don’t risk your life and/or health so that you can tell a few random people in the CR what is going on right now.

    #804729
    Tomche
    Member

    Being near a closed window is unsafe?

    #804730
    TweetTweet
    Participant

    Whoa let’s not go overboard. Maybe you shouldn’t go outside, but nothing is going to happen by looking out the window. This is not a category 3 storm.

    #804731
    WIY
    Member

    Have any trees fallen in Brooklyn?

    #804732
    TweetTweet
    Participant

    OK. Latest update on the hurricane 5 minutes ago from the National Weather Service- Irene is still a category 1 Hurricane with winds at 80mph. The eye of Irene is 189 miles away from NYC.

    #804733
    observanteen
    Member

    Just heard a massive “boom!”. A big branch probably fell on our roof, but I’m scared to go out to make sure. Whoa, the winds are strong. Hope there won’t be a blackout…:(

    #804734
    ronrsr
    Member

    I will bet lots of trees have fallen. The ground is very wet, and Brooklyn is getting lots of wind.

    I live near Boston, and my neighbor has a tree that is leaning at about a 30 degree angle towards his house. He has not taken care of it since I alerted him about it two years ago.

    The hurricane is slated to start here at 5am. Anyone care to guess what time the tree will hit his house? We can start a pool, perhaps?

    #804735
    ronrsr
    Member

    if it helps, it is a very tall pine tree.

    #804736
    always here
    Participant

    I’m upstate. it’s been raining steadily. I love the sound of the rain, but it’s dripping down in 2 spots in my bungalow bedroom. the bungalows are 80+ yrs. old & in disrepair :/ I’m afraid to go to sleep, in case I havta get outta this bungalow fast, CV’S!! I’m alone in here & hope I don’t havta run over to my daughter’s bungalow 🙁

    #804737
    ronrsr
    Member

    My roof started leaking this afternoon – I hired a roofer to replace the entire roof over two weeks ago, so I am a bit angry at him.

    #804738
    always here
    Participant

    *bungalow bedroom ceiling

    #804739
    bein_hasdorim
    Participant

    What I want to know is, if we will be able to go boating down 13th Ave tomorrow? If yes will Bloomberg find a way to give tickets.

    #804740
    HaLeiVi
    Participant

    Tweet, yeah, it’s definitely a dangerous time to go overboard.

    #804741
    WIY
    Member

    Bein hasdorim

    you will probably get a ticket for non-evacuation.

    #804742
    Queen Bee
    Member

    LOL, bein_hasdorim! That would be interesting.

    #804743
    Tomche
    Member

    At 3:30 AM, it is raining a little bit with heavy winds.

    #804744
    Y.W. Editor
    Keymaster

    Latest update from NYC just posted in storm coverage section.

    Be safe everyone.

    #804745
    cherrybim
    Participant

    Swaying trees… very scary… and six deaths have already occurred due to falling limbs. Stay home until winds have stopped, and even then be careful of tree weakened limbs.

    #804746
    mazal77
    Participant

    At 9;10 AM, Irene has been downgraded to a tropical storm. Flooding still poses a problem in some areas, but it’s just a really bad storm now. Hopefully the worst has passed us in Brooklyn.

    #804747
    brotherofurs
    Participant

    ok it wasn’t so bad b”H

    #804748
    Obaminator
    Member

    Yup, looks like it was a total bust. A big tado over nothing. A little wind, a little rain, vzeh hu. Not much to talk about other than a bunch of hype.

    The city probably used this Tropical Storm (it wasn’t even a hurricane by time it reached NY) as a drill for future preparedness.

    #804749
    yossi z.
    Member

    As a drill? As if they knew it was going to be nothing? I doubt that. I was informed that we very may well only be sitting in the eye of the storm and there is still more to come

    😀 Zuberman! 😀

    #804750
    ronrsr
    Member

    Definitrly not a drill. If things had played out a bit differently, it had the potential to be much, mich worse.

    In Boston our power is out, our ceiling is dripping, but we are safe and secure.

    #804751
    Tomche
    Member

    It’s over. Not much happened.

    #804752
    ronrsr
    Member

    It’s not over. Do not be deceived.

    #804753
    charliehall
    Participant

    high winds and flooding still to come in much of the area

    #804754
    ronrsr
    Member

    Power is back on. Many thanks to our municipal power company. I will pay this month’s bill without a single grumble.

    #804755
    Queen Bee
    Member

    I didn’t sleep at all last night. House and everyone are okay, though, B”H.

    #804756
    bein_hasdorim
    Participant

    Sorry guys, no boating in bklyn.

    Well just have to meet tomorrow by the delaware.

    B”H!!! Almost everyone seems alright, although I got some disturbing text about a boy, R”L I hope it’s not true.

    #804757
    Tomche
    Member

    bein: In Monsey or Brooklyn?

    #804758
    always here
    Participant

    I finally fell asleep a little after 5am. woke up around 8am to no power– which @ this bungalow colony means no running water, no toilet flushing(selicha). power went back up about 2 hrs. ago. lost power for 3-4 hrs. total. it’s drizzling & breezy now. B’H!

    #804759
    ronrsr
    Member

    They just arrested a guy in Hull, MA who was trying to surf and refused to leave the beach when asked by police.

    #804760
    always here
    Participant

    a tree cracked, broke & fell in our colony towards someone’s bungalow a short while ago….B”H all are okay. it’s still veryy windy up here.

    #804761
    always here
    Participant

    “@HatzolahNYC

    HATZOLAH NYC

    FLEISCHMANNS – Elderly Jewish women missing in flooded Fleischmanns, NY after bungalow swamped; Leah Rivka Bas Faiga.”

    Sullivan County 911 system is down.

    #804762
    always here
    Participant

    update:

    “HatzolahNYC HATZOLAH NYC

    FLEISCHMANS: Say Tehilim 4 Leah Rivka Bas Faiga (Skulener Rebbe’s sister-in-law) Trapped in a Bungalow, rescue workers unable to get to her.

    6 minutes ago”

    #804763
    am yisrael chai
    Participant

    “my neighbor has a tree that is leaning at about a 30 degree angle towards his house. He has not taken care of it since I alerted him about it two years ago.

    The hurricane is slated to start here at 5am. Anyone care to guess what time the tree will hit his house? We can start a pool, perhaps?”


    Whatever happened?

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