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National guard everwhere in total darkness tonight and I actually love it. Cooked in the fireplace and actual talking with the kids around the dinner table. Lots of peeps suffering, jerzey is hurting along with all coastal communities. Power should be back by Friday. Raw sewage in the water an zero utilities at the beach. Residents closest to beach still can't get back due to flooding major structural damage and fire risk. I think coastal zoning will change in town.

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Fairfield coastal areas are still flooded. Wish I could post pics through my phone, but the Fairfield police department has posted some devastating pics via Facebook. Some houses are completely off their foundation and floating in the water, as well as some that have mostly collapsed and are unrepairable.

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The East Haven fire chief was at the SNE WX conference. He was pretty somber after he spoke of the damage from Irene. He said new homes were just sitting there by the beach not anchored and waiting to go up. Ugh. I bet they got really lit up. He specifically mentioned Cosey Beach.

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Even dunes, that's gonna be tough to stop the water. But like you said..it's a risk you take. I think this storm may change some planning going forward.

they rebuilt the dunes along dune road barrier island on the S shore of long island near hampton bays/westhampton about 20 years ago.

right next to there is fire island which it sounds like was overwashed.

i got some friends who live out in westhampton and they are saying that while dune road was compromised with a breach at tiana beach, with major damage to the road itself and impassable bridges there...however reports are that their is no major structural damage on the barrier island itself, and that is a testament to the rebuilding of the dunes 20 years ago.

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just the raw numbers john, most people here were knowledgeable enough to know it was going to be very bad...and record breaking in some areas.

Yeah ...I understand that, the numbers seem surreal, but honestly none of it is coming as a surprise to me - in fact, I'm a "little" surprised it wasn't worse for NYC, because much to my chagrin, the Euro appears more correct for the hard left that I figured was a bit bias.

At risk of sounding like a petty soured douche, I honest didn't recuperate many responses when I elaborated some 10 days ago that the pattern appeared ripe for a rare "hook" scenario - it seems some writers/contributors garner a bit more attention up front for whatever reason - more power to them. I am not one of them - and it kind of sucks when guy has a good insight on something and it's not readily heard.

Oh well - such is life.

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