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Never considered the laundry issue so that's getting added to the list. Just purchased a small portable generator so will be getting needing extra fuel. My wife and I each have a car and keep a station car as a spare. Made sure those were full before the storm so gas has not been an issue so far and we carpool together so that has helped. Need to figure out an accceptable solution to running our oil hot water furnace with the new generator. My wife is paranoid and insists on using a transfer switch to power it. I want to interrupt the existing circuit and splice in a male plug on the burner side and a female receptacle on the power side but it's a nogo with the wife. Just saw furnace transfer swithes so will need to see if they are up to code and will have one professionally installed if it's legal in Nassau. Definitely need a way to keep warm if the generator cannot run the furnace. Won't consider kerosene but I like the sound of the gel fuel faux fireplace an earlier poster mentioned. Just need to keep a small area warm at a time. Didn't even know they existed. And ultimately would like to install a stand-by generator if we can run one using a diesel motor running off our existing HHO tank.
Best of luck to everybody dealing with Sandy's aftermath!
Quite honestly, if I knew the response to the storm was going to be so terribly mismanaged I would have just taken 2 weeks vacation and left the tri-state area. The gas line mess is inexcusable. I was over at Home Depot in Farmingdale the other day and saw a FEMA tour bus with nobody in it, but inside the store was a whole bunch of Army reservists and FEMA guys checking out the big screen TV's and horseplaying with each other. This whole thing has been completely mismanaged. If Long Island ever got hit with a true Category 2 hurricane there would total devastation and famine. Our govenmental leaders are totally inept from the top down it seems.
Quite honestly, if I knew the response to the storm was going to be so terribly mismanaged I would have just taken 2 weeks vacation and left the tri-state area. The gas line mess is inexcusable. I was over at Home Depot in Farmingdale the other day and saw a FEMA tour bus with nobody in it, but inside the store was a whole bunch of Army reservists and FEMA guys checking out the big screen TV's and horseplaying with each other. This whole thing has been completely mismanaged. If Long Island ever got hit with a true Category 2 hurricane there would total devastation and famine. Our govenmental leaders are totally inept from the top down it seems.
Photo and send to news media if you see this.
There's downtime they need, but if they are working, this is unacceptable.
There's downtime they need, but if they are working, this is unacceptable.
I meant to say Walmart in Farmingdale not Home Depot, but you're right it was pretty upsetting to see these guys doing nothing. I mean why have them out there just to shop at Walmart and mess around? I think there's a whole bunch of people just trying to milk this situation for all it's worth in disaster money and overtime. Still haven't heard a word from the County Executive as to what he's doing about the gas situation or the power problem. Very very bad response to this thing all around. Federal/State/Local dropped the ball on every level. At least Cuomo should enforce Odd/Even days for gasoline to alleviate the gas lines out there. TOTAL MESS!
I meant to say Walmart in Farmingdale not Home Depot, but you're right it was pretty upsetting to see these guys doing nothing. I mean why have them out there just to shop at Walmart and mess around? I think there's a whole bunch of people just trying to milk this situation for all it's worth in disaster money and overtime. Still haven't heard a word from the County Executive as to what he's doing about the gas situation or the power problem. Very very bad response to this thing all around. Federal/State/Local dropped the ball on every level. At least Cuomo should enforce Odd/Even days for gasoline to alleviate the gas lines out there. TOTAL MESS!
We have a county executive in suffolk? I havent seen or heard from Steve Baloney in days.
You don't know what those guys were up to. Maybe they're claims guys or lawyers who got there early before their office or whatever was opened, or they were there to distribute food and the food truck hadn't arrived yet. FEMA doesn't employ line workers so it's not like they should have been up in a bucket.
I don't have too much of a problem with the government's response. We just have to face facts - our infrastructure is crumbling, and we got hit - twice - by very bad weather. If anything comes out of this it's that I hope we'll take the necessary steps to improve what we have. You could cut unemployment down to a sliver just by investing in fixing everything that's broken. The bridges, the power delivery systems, the roads, modernizing the railroads and subways, pipelines, building power generation, building a bridge or tunnel to CT, whatever - they're plenty of WORK to be done just no JOBS.
-had gas tanks filled
-filled up our portable 5 gallon gas container
-checked the flashlight
-have generator - changed oil for the first time since purchase 14 years ago...
-have a portable heater -
-cells and laptops charge.
-brought extra bottles of wine....
We didn't lose power so we got so lucky.
What would you get or do differently to prepare for the next storm?
Last year we were without power for two weeks - broke out a generator had in our shed, that hadn't been used for years. Being without power makes you more attentive to what you could do to prevent future situations without power.
This year installed Solar energy - 20 panels in the roof. Despite the strong winds, they held firm. (The installer said the panels could withstand winds over 125 mph).
This year got a snow thrower - was prepared to remove the 8 inches of wet snow that fell this morning. My neighbor was short gas for his snow thrower, gave him a gallon.
Yes many of us were lucky; compared to the folks in New Jersey, nobody could of prepared to what happened to them...
Last year we were without power for two weeks - broke out a generator had in our shed, that hadn't been used for years. Being without power makes you more attentive to what you could do to prevent future situations without power.
This year installed Solar energy - 20 panels in the roof. Despite the strong winds, they held firm. (The installer said the panels could withstand winds over 125 mph).
This year got a snow thrower - was prepared to remove the 8 inches of wet snow that fell this morning. My neighbor was short gas for his snow thrower, gave him a gallon.
Yes many of us were lucky; compared to the folks in New Jersey, nobody could of prepared to what happened to them...
Do you really think NJ was hit that much harder than us?
Next time we're going to get my in-laws airline tickets to get the hell out of there. We're worried sick- no power since the beginning of the storm and it is getting mighty cold in their house. They keep their cell phone off to conserve power because re-charging is difficult and they are running out of gas trying to find places during the day (such as senior center or library which are closed). Where is FEMA with generators, trailers, or any other possible help?
We live in Atlanta and our neighbors rented a truck filled with supplies to bring up.
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Great post!!!
