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Tropical connection NYC forum area Sun-Wed, 8/2-5/20- Tropical Storm Isaias

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6 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

For most near the coast Sandy was definitely higher. Given the tree damage where I am though we must’ve had gusts into the 70s today. 

According to the reports, Freeport was sustained at 44mph and Carle Place's highest gust was 43 mph.  Yea....

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I don't understand how everybody thinks power restoration can happen much more quickly than it is. For instance, there's a street lower down on my hill that had over 70 trees down, those have to be cu

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Good Saturday morning everyone, Little change from what was posted yesterday and possibly my last post until Sunday morning.At that time, I may start a separate SVR topic for Sunday alone. Need more t

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Rjay

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12 minutes ago, SRRTA22 said:

For sure. That monday evening nearing high tide,  we were most definitely gusting 75-90 mph throughout nyc metro. If i remember correctly there was ~85mph wind gust around 8pm at kewr

78mph was the highest at EWR.

90mph at ISP and 85mph at JFK.

Eatons Neck was the highest recorded at 96mph on the north shore of LI (but it's slightly elevated- 71ft)

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...not too much tree damage out this way..but the lack of rain we got out here

is pretty amazing..KFOK reported only 0.05 inches of rain and with a dry forecast coming

the next few days its really going to be dry...maybe a repeat of the "sunrise highway fires"

during the summer of '95..hope not.

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Parts of the region experienced wind gusts past 70 mph. Sites reporting wind gusts of 70 mph or above included:

Berkeley Twp, NJ: 75 mph
Blue Point, NY: 71 mph
Cape May NOS, NJ: 75 mph
Grasonville, MD: 71 mph
Great Gull Island, NY: 73 mph
Great South Bay, NY: 75 mph
Farmingdale, NY: 78 mph
Jackson Heights, NY: 73 mph
New York City-JFK Airport: 70 mph
Ocean City, NJ: 72 mph
Rutgers, NJ: 70 mph
Smyrna Landing (2 NW), DE: 96 mph
Stony Brook, NY: 75 mph
Toms River, NJ: 70 mph
 

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19 minutes ago, Allsnow said:

Parts of the region experienced wind gusts past 70 mph. Sites reporting wind gusts of 70 mph or above included:

Berkeley Twp, NJ: 75 mph
Blue Point, NY: 71 mph
Cape May NOS, NJ: 75 mph
Grasonville, MD: 71 mph
Great Gull Island, NY: 73 mph
Great South Bay, NY: 75 mph
Farmingdale, NY: 78 mph
Jackson Heights, NY: 73 mph
New York City-JFK Airport: 70 mph
Ocean City, NJ: 72 mph
Rutgers, NJ: 70 mph
Smyrna Landing (2 NW), DE: 96 mph
Stony Brook, NY: 75 mph
Toms River, NJ: 70 mph
 

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So are you done downplaying wind yet?

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59 minutes ago, tim said:

...not too much tree damage out this way..but the lack of rain we got out here

is pretty amazing..KFOK reported only 0.05 inches of rain and with a dry forecast coming

the next few days its really going to be dry...maybe a repeat of the "sunrise highway fires"

during the summer of '95..hope not.

I was in Pittsburgh for Hurricane Ike.  Similar winds without a drop of rain.

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27 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Pseg updated, 338,000 out now on the island, could be a week 

LOL. So the 95k at 4:46 wasn’t even close. Yeah, 338k seems much more likely given the tree damage I’ve seen. Glad I’m not one of them this time. 

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5 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

is it really going to be a week before i get power?

Depends how many are out.  If you compare it to Sandy you may get an idea.  Long Island has 30% the number of outages compared to Sandy and that took 16 days although by Day 11 90% or more were back

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5 minutes ago, NJwx85 said:

After Sandy we had no power for ten days, but literally every single transformer in town blew up. Unless I'm mistaken, most of these power outages are related to downed wires which are easier to fix.

Around here it seems like fallen trees took wires down. After a severe storm last summer came through, PSEG trimmed branches around the wires in my neighborhood which likely helped today. That and luck. Much of the rest of my town looks like it’s out. 

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Con Ed says this is the 2nd biggest power outage in its history. Biggest being Sandy of course. Irene now moves down to 3rd. 

When the winds died down more I explored further and its really a mess. I moved my car to the most tree free spot I could find just before the onset of strong winds, now half that block has damaged cars from trees. Glad I moved in time. Also ran into random pockets of no power scattered around.

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3 hours ago, SnowGoose69 said:

Yeah if its 368K I think most are back by Day 5 but some will take 7-10, very few, but some.  I think Gloria and Sandy all were over 1 million

pseg coo just said on news 12 420,000 were out at the peak.

i think the biggest factor that made this storm so impactful on trees was the unusual wind direction. Our trees are used to NE/E winds during storms and NW winds during the cold season. My parents enormous silver maple lost 3 huge branches today and did fine during sandy. (Like you said earlier less leaves during sandy)

 

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