Hurricane sandy: Yt'r check in please!

[Yorkiemom1]

OK.............NOW!! Is everyone from the storm ravaged area that is in our YT family, present and accounted for??

[Lil Sis]

I am trying to think of who I talk to ... how about baci's mom?

[Hopesmom]

Some in our area are still without power. Most of our gas stations are out of gas & there are lines a mile long waiting at the others. Reminds me of the 70's! Praying for all those dealing with the after effects of Sandy!

Blessings!

Hopesmom

[Oddsock]

Originally Posted by Harrysmum

Wooooooo Hooooooo! Thank you Kathy - and God bless all of you that have gone through this terrible time. With love from all your friends in the UK x

Second that.

[stanziog]

We live in lower Manhattan in a high rise. Just got power back monday. no heat or hot water yet. cannot wait for a hot shower. my furbabies are ok. keeping them warm and happy with full bellies....

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by stanziog

We live in lower Manhattan in a high rise. Just got power back monday. no heat or hot water yet. cannot wait for a hot shower. my furbabies are ok. keeping them warm and happy with full bellies....

That's is awful. Cannot imagine how awful it must be living all that time in the dark witout hardly any media, etc. How in the world did you and the babies make it down and up the stairs several times a day, etc., for so long? Was there any emergency lighting in the stairwells? Did you have to have groceries delivered or live a lot on take-out? Wasn't it awfully, awfully cold at night?

I can't imagine how it felt to hear that first clicking sound & the little alarm noise the system makes when the electicity came back on after so long! Were you at home and awake when it happened? That had to feel like he very best present in the world to have lights and warmth and TV, etc.! So glad you are finally back up and running as they say.

[JakesMom]

Thanks to many YT friends for the status of those of us living on Long Island.
Having lived on Long Island for 60 years, I can say I have never seen such devastation. Many people have lost their homes, power, cars, etc.
We have all been helping each other and feel very blessed to have survived this. Our fur babies were shaken up but they are doing well.

[Sammy Mommy]

My friend just got her electric on today and tomorrow the plumber is coming to install a new hot water heater and heating system. My son's friend has been staying with us. His family still has no electric or heat. Hopefully by the end of the week they will. He's a sweetheart and I enjoy having him with us. The President is coming here (Staten Island) tomorrow and I hope he can offer support and services to people. Some have lost everything. It's just too sad.

[carmen in nj]

we are ok, lost power for 5 days, cable, internet and phone for 13 days, and gas was rationed for 2 weeks, but life is slowly coming back to as normal as is going to get, we loose power for hours they still cutting trees that are close to the power lines and son on, I posted a video of my little town by the lake to show the damage we suffer..thanks for caring..
hugs,

[Yorkiemom1]

I remember sitting in a gas line for almost 2 hours....and they ran out of gas....4 hours later, the tanker arrived and dropped gasoline.....alot of the cars had left and I had managed to end up second in line to the pump....car in front filled up with just dropped gasoline, and then filled up gas cans for their generator, and it was my turn....I just needed gas for the generator.....as I was filling up my cans, that first car that had JUST filled up, had pulled out onto the street and their car had gone about 50 feet and DIED!!!! I didnt think anything about it, took my own gas cans home filled up my BRAND NEW, $2000.00 GENERAC GENERATOR, AND COME TO FIND OUT, IT WAS BAD GASOLINE WE HAD JUST GOTTEN AT THE SERVICE STATION!!!! Which is why that car had died in the middle of the street as it was leaving the station.....it ruined my generator.....thank God I had not put it into my car.....this was 12 days into no electricity, no phones....I just sat and cried, as more of my rain soaked ceiling and isulation fell down into the bedroom......FEMA was absolutely useless to me....they were supposed to cover what insurance did not pay for....I got zip, nada, zilch, zero from FEMA......Have your insurance companies told you they are not covering any damage caused by the storm surge??? We all got THAT news when they started assessing damage on the handful of homes that were not washed completely away on Boliver by the 22 foot storm surge...damage not covered by homeowners (not wind driven rain)NOR by flood insurance (not rising water).....we all empathsize with you up there....we have also lived the nightmare you are living now....it takes forever to get back to a point where you can start to get back to some kind of "normal". Gird up your loins....you have yet to encounter all those insurance adjusters.....if you believe you are getting rooked by your insurance company, here in Texas we contacted the State Board of Insurance in Austin....they really did put their noses to the grindstone and help people get what they were due to get from insurance adjusters, who were called in from all over the country, given a 2 day course in adjustments, and sent down here with a little book, "to look stuff up as they went along", and use us as "on the job training".....TIP: If the wind lifted your shingle up off the decking on your roof, the integrity of the roof and shingles has been comprimised and you are entitled to a new roof....not just tacking down the dislodged shingles....they will try to get out of replacing your roof by just repairing the peeld back shingles....NOT GOOD!!! NOT ACCEPTABLE!!!

[carmen in nj]

oh wow, our roof is brand new just put up last august, and it held up, I had the roofing company come and check on it, still under warranty of 6 months. the only damage we had was a garbage can hit the back gate and broke it, hubby replaced it when Home Depot had a piece of panel that we could buy. is all done, FEMA is a JOKE, I have friends that lost their homes and they still walking around here like zombies, we call them the Fema walking dead, their answer to everything is they just "DONT KNOW". insurances gave the people a 4 to 8 week waiting period to get an answer on their claims, this is a travesty. I drove to PA for gas, it got to the point here that people were arguing and trying to kill each other with guns for a gallon of gas, very scary and depresing. every other day we got up at 4 am and drove to PA to get gas and some normalcy. the babies did very well thru the storm mama kept them warm and we all hurdle in my bedroom where we had a small heater run by the small generator running all night. My son's put a camping tent in the hall upstairs and slept inside their winter sleeping bags.. they thought it was cool since I never allowed them to do that inside the house when they were young..LOL , we still loose power for a couple of hours since the crews still removing trees and debris from the power lines and sorrownding areas.
I thank God that hubby was able to stay home for 5 days during the no power days,between him and the boys they kept the generator running...
so sad about your generator, was it still under warranty, I would rather NOT eat for a month but have a generator, now we have 2 a big one that runs the house, my house is all electric, and a small one that runs the heaters for my dogs.. yes my pack has their own generator..
hugs,

[stanziog]

We are running on generators for hot water and electric. our complex was hit with 25feet of water in our basement which destroyed boilers and electric.
this is all nothing compared to the devestation in Staten Island, Long Island, and the Jersey SHore. my heart goes out to all those people who lost everthing...

[carmen in nj]

Here's a little video that was done about my town ..

Help for Hopatcong, Hope after Sandy - YouTube

[stanziog]

Originally Posted by carmen in nj

Here's a little video that was done about my town ..
Help for Hopatcong, Hope after Sandy - YouTube

This is so sad Carmen. So much loss. Prayers for all.

[Yorkiemom1]

I got nothing for my generator Carmen....you TRY to cover your butt for EVERY concievable disaster, when you have all these poor little innocent babies totally dependent on decisions YOU make for yourself and them...I had bought that generator 13 months before the huirricane, so if I ever needed it, I would have it. I also bought two a/c and heating window units that could be put in windows to cool or heat a room where I could put all my dogs in crates, if I ever needed to do that....those units also have a separate smaller generator. Since the big expensive generator was not "bought specifically for the hurricane" that is, within a week of landfall, Insurance would not cover it....so I thought FEMA may, since they "cover damage the insurance wont pay for"........hahahahahahahaha, JOKE!!!! The video above.......brings back raw memories of what we went through....sights your eyes can not believe!