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Double Bass Irene
- Thread starter Don Higdon
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- Mar 22, 2000
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- Big Cheese Emeritus: Gollihur Music (retired)
I'm very relieved that we moved Gollihur Music from Ocean View NJ (a little over a mile from the bay near Sea Isle City, exit 17 of the GSParkway) 65 miles inland a few weeks ago. I'd have been plenty nervous about all the bass gear in that location.
Now I am only worried about my home.
I hope all my many musician friends in Cape May County NJ and beyond stay safe. The evacuation orders were coincident with our travel to a family wedding in PA this weekend, so we're out of town.
Now I am only worried about my home.
I hope all my many musician friends in Cape May County NJ and beyond stay safe. The evacuation orders were coincident with our travel to a family wedding in PA this weekend, so we're out of town.
Yes be safe everybody. All of my family is on the east coast (NYC, LI, and NJ) so I'm watching this storm closely.
She's getting close! The outer bands are hammering us now and it's bad- but worse weather is on the way! I'm far enough inland and enough above sea level that I should be okay, but I've got friends and family in some dodgy areas.
Time to batten down the hatches!
I'm most worried about friends in NYC- they're gonna get a beating!
Joe
Time to batten down the hatches!
I'm most worried about friends in NYC- they're gonna get a beating!
Joe
Good luck, everyone, and stay safe. I've been through some doozies in North Queensland, but this one looks nasty.
Fine. Nothing's gone except television. Some of my relatives are without power, though--and it's not expected to come back on for a week or so.
I heard from my family stretching from NJ to LI and they say it was windy and rainy, but not too bad. The power seems to be out for most. I have some NY friends that are posting of facebook and some NYC talkbass members seem to be posting so maybe the power outages are spotty.
Not bad north of Boston.... Still have power, not a ton of rain, but still substantial. Wind gusts from time to time. I think N. Carolina and the mid atlantic area took the major hit....
I went through a number of these in Miami and most of them really just amounted to "bad weather", but occasionally a hurricane can be devastating. What I learned in Miami is that local news always puts someone on the beach clinging to a light pole like their about to blown out to see, when I can stand on my porch a mile away and realize it's not that bad. National news ignores most of the hurricanes that do or might hit the South East every year.
So, I've been hoping that that's what was going on with this one, you'd all get soggy and not much else, but I did hear that it's claimed 8 lives so far. Hoping that you're all okay, keep us posted.
So, I've been hoping that that's what was going on with this one, you'd all get soggy and not much else, but I did hear that it's claimed 8 lives so far. Hoping that you're all okay, keep us posted.
I have been calling my Mom on Little Neck Bay in North East Queens since yesterday and no answer not even a connection or a fast busy. Finally I called the manager at Darryl Strawberry's Sports Grill in Douglaston Manor a mile away and had him go over to Moms. He called me on his cel phone when he located her. No power, no phone and no internet. He said my Dad had the barby going with steaks. He could smell them from Douglaston Parkway. Most of the trees are old swamp maples in Douglaston. They took a beating and the swamp overflowed up to Marinette Street.
I'm very relieved that we moved Gollihur Music from Ocean View NJ (a little over a mile from the bay near Sea Isle City, exit 17 of the GSParkway) 65 miles inland a few weeks ago. I'd have been plenty nervous about all the bass gear in that location.
Now I am only worried about my home.
I hope all my many musician friends in Cape May County NJ and beyond stay safe. The evacuation orders were coincident with our travel to a family wedding in PA this weekend, so we're out of town.
Whew!! Glad all was well at the store ! I'd sure hate to lose that resource
Wayne
IMHO, Chris Christie was on this thing from the get-go. One million people were evacuated from the shore to shelters before she hit. Now they have to be rotated out for inland people forced out of their homes by flooding.
No lectures, no self-aggrandizing, no drama, command of the facts, all business, well thought-out plans, frequent updates. Good job.
No lectures, no self-aggrandizing, no drama, command of the facts, all business, well thought-out plans, frequent updates. Good job.
I just wrote and then erased a long post about conditions. Some bad stuff happened, and there are a million people without power, but this is nothing like what happened to Joplin, Missouri. I'm counting my blessings.
Interestingly enough in my neck of Long Island some of the worst winds were on Sunday night well after Irene had passed.
I lost a couple of bricks in my chimney but that was it. No power loss, though much of the surrounding area lost power and there were a number of streets closed with downed power lines. Huntington Village, a couple of miles north of me, had some serious flooding, but nothing to speak of here.
LIRR isn't running so I'm working from home for the time being.
I lost a couple of bricks in my chimney but that was it. No power loss, though much of the surrounding area lost power and there were a number of streets closed with downed power lines. Huntington Village, a couple of miles north of me, had some serious flooding, but nothing to speak of here.
LIRR isn't running so I'm working from home for the time being.
