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Up in the lower W 90s I just feel so oddly disconnected. Wind is gusting and power is flickering, but people are still going about their business.

Wow-- really? My mother-- who is very stoic and matter-of-fact and tends to dismiss these things (total anti-weenie)-- and who's lived in NYC/LI her whole life-- is just like, "Whoa-- this is the worst I've seen in NYC." She said the force of the wind hitting her building-- a solid old brownstone-- was creeping her out.

She says it's lessening now.

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It won't stop!!! 3 hours now! Its not entertaining anymore...

Improvement on the way, much quieter here now in SE Nassau, still gusting 45-50kts at times but the absolute horrifying gusts have really stopped...Islip/FRG and HWV obs showing the decrease too. Should be an hour for queens, probably 2 more though ERN NJ and NYC.

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Improvement on the way, much quieter here now in SE Nassau, still gusting 45-50kts at times but the absolute horrifying gusts have really stopped...Islip/FRG and HWV obs showing the decrease too. Should be an hour for queens, probably 2 more though ERN NJ and NYC.

I don't know. Look at those bands in the ocean. Those have to have major gusts in them.

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Wow-- really? My mother-- who is very stoic and matter-of-fact and tends to dismiss these things (total anti-weenie)-- and who's lived in NYC/LI her whole life-- is just like, "Whoa-- this is the worst I've seen in NYC." She said the force of the wind hitting her building-- a solid old brownstone-- was creeping her out.

She says it's lessening now.

I don't know if it's our street orientation, building (like a fortress), location, or what. Haven't felt threatened all day. We've had our windows open all day.

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Improvement on the way, much quieter here now in SE Nassau, still gusting 45-50kts at times but the absolute horrifying gusts have really stopped...Islip/FRG and HWV obs showing the decrease too. Should be an hour for queens, probably 2 more though ERN NJ and NYC.

Huddled with my wife and son in a dark room with a 50 ft tree in my backyard. We just moved to SP 2 weeks ago. Worst weather I've ever experienced. I'm 34.

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Brother just called, lives in Garden City and said about 7pm transformer out back went on fire and the entire lawn and fence started blazing, they had to call the FD and evacuate to his brother in law a couple of miles away....said the drive took almost 30 minutes to go the 2 miles due to blocked streets.

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I don't know if it's our street orientation, building (like a fortress), location, or what. Haven't felt threatened all day. We've had our windows open all day.

It's weird, because my mother's place is like that, too. She always says that she doesn't get any wind because her house is kind of cozy and tucked in-- and this time, she felt it. She kept talking about the front door-- how it was shaking-- and how she hadn't ever noticed that before. And the large glass door in living-room-- that leads outside-- kept blowing open-- she couldn't secure it. She never gets any wind effects and she did this time.

Thank God, she's near the River but very high up-- I'd be worried sick if she were in Lower Manhattan.

She says it's calming.

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Last hour at Battery. Likely nearing its peak -

8518750 20121029 20:12 4.60 13.26 7.11

8518750 20121029 20:18 4.64 13.34 7.15

8518750 20121029 20:24 4.67 13.40 7.26

8518750 20121029 20:30 4.69 13.46 7.13

8518750 20121029 20:36 4.71 13.54 7.00

8518750 20121029 20:42 4.73 13.65 6.68

8518750 20121029 20:48 4.74 13.72 6.85

8518750 20121029 20:54 4.74 13.78 7.12

8518750 20121029 21:00 4.74 13.81 7.07

8518750 20121029 21:06 4.72 13.85 7.30

8518750 20121029 21:12 4.71 13.87 7.30

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