Wind/Rainstorm (Massapequa: prices, moving, tree removal)

[hotkarl]

Originally Posted by TeamExit

a neighbors tree fell into my yard, is it their responsibility to remove it or mine?

Whatever is on your side of the property is your responsibility.

[TeamExit]

Originally Posted by JosephPicarilloJr.

No you don't. FIOS didn't go out - enough with the cheerleading for Cablevision already, it's growing tired.

im pretty sure FIOS uses wires, just like cablevision. and im also pretty sure that if the wires are damaged, the service goes out, whether cable or fios. my cable didnt so much as flicker over the whole weekend, meanwhile my electric was off and on all day saturday

[Infamous92]

There's so much debris and trees tossed around. This morning I saw a half of a large tree hanging upside down like a bat on power lines. I've never seen so many downed trees in my life. I've heard them call it the "Unnamed Hurricane" on the news this morning.

I was out in this storm, lets just say I had some bad experiences that I never want to go through again including the front of our car being lifted up by the wind (on the GWB).

Originally Posted by Johninwestbury

Quite a few power outages on the south shore, many entire towns out. This storm is turning out worse than expected, this the closest I've seen to a hurricane since I experienced Gloria. Power has flickered here but hasn't gone out, amazingly.
There will be alot of damage come daylight, loads of trees down.

Moderator cut: John, please do not make every subject turn into an anti-immigrant post :

Northern NJ is getting hit hard as well, Garden State Plaza lost power and had to be evacuated! Roosevelt Field was still up and running when I was there at 6pm. Seeing those traffic lights sway...well that was something else!
I wonder how those pine barrens are faring...

Are you serious? It had to be evacuated? I was there on Saturday and we left at like 6:30-8:00 PM, we also saw trees falling right before our eyes on our way home.

[RoleModel]

I have not seen the scope of damage like this in my lifetime - I was a baby during Gloria.

Trees down all over the place, signs, poles, fences blown over. I was going north on 101 and one of the traffic lights at Gazzola is gone. Not broken - gone.

[Thehouse]

Is it me or the trees here in American are weak and not planted in the ground properly? Some of these down tree seem to be sitting just below the surface. Yep I would cut down all trees around my house. I saw a tree in Mount Vernon today relaxing on someones house.

[Elke Mariotti]

Originally Posted by Thehouse

Is it me or the trees here in American are weak and not planted in the ground properly? Some of these down tree seem to be sitting just below the surface. Yep I would cut down all trees around my house. I saw a tree in Mount Vernon today relaxing on someones house.

I don't know where you're from, but if the trees weren't properly planted "here in America", they wouldn't grow to be 50+ years old and 80+ ft tall, now would they? They'd come down way before then... Are you an experienced gardener?

[Coney]

Originally Posted by sean sean sean sean

Holy cow your roof blew off? The whole thing or just a small section??

I really don't recall hearing any bad weather predictions outside of the typical "heavy rain" - and this storm really was worse than any hurricane or Nor'easter I can remember. I was too young to remember Gloria, but I remember whatever one we had in 1991 and that wasn't anything close to the amount of destruction I saw Saturday and Sunday.

I lost my cable very early Sunday morning (2AM?) and it's still out. I'm stealing a wireless connection off one of my neighbors who must have Verizon. Pissed that I missed the first episode of The Pacific. Electricity flickered a lot but never went out, at least not while I was home.

Driving around eastern Nassau during the storm was surreal. 20ft+ pine trees in the middle of the street, live electrical wires dangling, traffic/street lights out for miles, car accidents, massive flooding - even very far inland. I started hearing constant sirens around 11AM on Saturday and they didn't stop until well into the morning hours yesterday. Wantagh and Seaford seem to have gotten the worst out of the areas I've driven through.

Yes, Sean, basically the whole roof lifted off like an airplane wing getting lift. Then it smashed against things and broke up. I've been living here almost 30 years and this has never happened. The roof was reinforced and repaired last May. My back storm door also broke off at the hinges, but it didn't fly away. The damage is incredible. On Saturday night, I might have been able to salvage more items in the house, if I could have seen what I was doing. This was an incredible double whammy. No electricty at night time and losing a roof. I didn't realize how much water was coming in because I couldn't really see exactly where it was coming from or how much there was with the use of flashlights. We all got wet and went to bed soaked and cold since there was no heat.

Still no cable here either. I got a constant busy signal all day on Sunday but finally reached them at around 1 AM Monday morning. They couldn't give me a time when it would be fixed. I have a regular landline phone that was fine until today (Monday) and I keep getting bumped off the internet. It's pretty isolating, no TV, no phone, no internet.

[Smash255]

I have seen a few posts complaining about LIPA, most of the time IPA complaints are warranted, but I don't think its fair in this case. Granted, I didn't lose power, though plenty of areas around me did, including my old neighborhood.

With that being said this was the biggest storm we have seen in almost 20 years. We have widespread damage not only all over Long Island, but in NYC, Westchester, New Jersey, Connecticut, etc. Seeing this type of wind may happen from time to time during spring and summer storm, but 20-30 minutes or so and its over. The heavy winds were all day Saturday and even when they dies down early Sunday morning were not exactly light either. This was a major storm which caused a ton of destruction in a widespread area. You can be critical for LIPA about many things, and most of that criticism is well deserved, this case I really don't think you can say it was well deserved. A bad storm was predicited but not a once in 20 years type of storm.

[sean sean sean sean]

Originally Posted by Coney

Yes, Sean, basically the whole roof lifted off like an airplane wing getting lift. Then it smashed against things and broke up. I've been living here almost 30 years and this has never happened. The roof was reinforced and repaired last May. My back storm door also broke off at the hinges, but it didn't fly away. The damage is incredible. On Saturday night, I might have been able to salvage more items in the house, if I could have seen what I was doing. This was an incredible double whammy. No electricty at night time and losing a roof. I didn't realize how much water was coming in because I couldn't really see exactly where it was coming from or how much there was with the use of flashlights. We all got wet and went to bed soaked and cold since there was no heat.

Still no cable here either. I got a constant busy signal all day on Sunday but finally reached them at around 1 AM Monday morning. They couldn't give me a time when it would be fixed. I have a regular landline phone that was fine until today (Monday) and I keep getting bumped off the internet. It's pretty isolating, no TV, no phone, no internet.

That's the worst damage I've heard of....jeez. Even from the pictures on Newsday.com I haven't seen anything that bad. What town are you in? I hope everything works out for you and the insurance company treats you right.

My cable finally came back on around 3:15PM yesterday....so it was basically out for about 36 hours. That's not horrible, and my area had major damage from the storm. If I wasn't able to jack my neighbor's wireless connection I might have been slightly more POed LOL. Even right now I'm still using it because I've been too lazy to hook my router back up haha....maybe I'll just cancel my internet service, this is just as fast!

[PONYPULR]

My husband, the 'fessional tree trimmer, explained to me that the reason that the trees are so vulnerable is because their roots don't grow down around here because they are primarily in our yards which are treated and watered too excess. Consequently their roots grow closer to the surface, and not down deep to look for nourishment.