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Double Bass Sandy

#2
Plinking away on my classical guitars. Troubleshooting the Epiphone Sheraton that belongs to the lead guitarist of our Praise Band, the toggle switch needed a good cleaning and it needed new strings. Will check into work on email shortly as I watch the branches of the trees sway more violently by the hour.
 
#6
Got sent home from work before it got too bad. Watching it rain, blow and keeping an eye on the workshop. We have big trees all around us. We are batten down and prepared the best way we know how. If all those basses need to come to the second floor we will get our exercise running steps. Not complaining, just happy to be home with hubby and dry for now. :)
 
#7
Windy as all hell, lots of sirens, but very little rain at the moment. Can't get into the city to the day gig, so I'm taking advantage of the practice time. If either or both of the trees across the street go down, they'll take the power lines with them...maybe I should be practicing electric right now....

Thanks to all for the good wishes. This is going to be interesting....
 
#10
Thanks for the concern guys.

From where we were, it wasn't but a bunch of wind. Though I saw some gnarly pics of parking garages underwater and the subway's gonna be a mess for days, maybe longer in spots.

Hope nobody had to deal with anything too inconvenient. Most of us scored a four day weekend out of it.
 
#13
We've got 50mph winds here near Detroit, and a lovely rain/snow mix. Power's out in a lot of places. The weather isn't especially hazardous or scary here, just nasty...still, I can only imagine what it was like over where the storm actually hit.
 
#14
It came in right over us on the Jersey shore, my home and the old Gollihur Music building is on the coast between Atlantic City and Cape May, on the mainland less than a mile from the bay. Amazingly, we never lost power; lots of branches and leaves are the only damage. Lucky!
 
#15
Everything okay in my direct vicinity. I know there's no power in Manhattan south of 39th St on the east side/31st St on the west side, and they're saying it could be out for days. Still waiting on what the deal is with the subways but it doesn't sound so good for a few lines. Found this picture in the comments section on secondavenuesagas.com (86th St stop in Brooklyn): https://twitpic.com/b8ntyj

Hope everyone's safe and okay.
 
#16
All good here in southern PA. We got 8” of rain and wind but never lost power. The side yard is flooded but that minor stuff…no worries. Work remained closed for the day…that’s a first in 30 years.

Take care all…this storm was huge by a meteorological stand point. My good friends and customers at AMS in Boston will be studying this one for a while.
 
#18
Things here in the Poconos are pretty much back to normal.
For most of us the power is back on thanks to the tireless efforts of the linemen from PP&L, MetEd and other states who have literally been putting their lives on the line working around the clock. We were lucky! I can only hope that things soon go as well for the many people who are homeless or still without water, power, or even gas for their cars.
It kinda gives a different slant to the old, moody Jim Webb/Glen Campbell tune, don't it?
 
#19
I spoke to Jeff Bollbach today. Things in Freeport, Long Island are really bad. Jeff said surf-able waves were coming down his street during the storm. His workshop was inundated with 6 feet of salt water, and all his tools are trashed. Fortunately Jeff and his family are fine, and no instruments were destroyed. But his entire electrical and heating systems are kaput. According to Jeff, his homestead fared better than most in his neighborhood.
 
#20
Arrgh. Being a seaside resident myself, I've watched with horror as the ocean went pouring into the streets and people's homes and workshops.

I was thinking today about guys like Jeff Bollbach and Flip Scipio and John Monteleone, all of whom live pretty close to sea level too. :(
 

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