All I know is that if friggen Vs. had kept the USCPC on VERSES and not let CBS take it I could have watched it instead of some inane prattle about a failed rain storm all afternoon.

Some news pictures show some bad flooding there, see, e.g., this.

MrGrumpy, I caught the stage on Steephilltv.com. I don't know if you've heard of that site before. I thought the same thing as you(ugh CBS) and then it hit me to check out Steephill.

I tried to make it to the big apple, but all roads to the George Washington Bridge were flooded. Hopefully the water recedes by tomorrow's commute to work.

My power back at 8:00 pm. Probably off just long enough to ruin the contents of the fridge.

I wish the shutdown of bus and subway remains in effect for one week. How I will miss the empty streets.

I rode into Prospect Park at the Lincoln Road entrance and right behind me a cop car with the loudspeaker comes up behind me and starts announcing "park closed, everybody must leave". They were totally ignored by everybody, walkers, joggers, people with strollers, cyclists. If the park is really closed they need to put up barriers at the entrances. The car proceeded to go around the road and make that announcement. By the time they got back to the beginning there was a whole new load of people in the park.

If I go into the office tomorrow I'm going to ride in.

They themselves should be the first to leave :D

wow, i honestly would think those were photshopped. I went out at 3pm and did a full circumnavigation of manhattan. there was barely evidence of any of that. just about eveyrthing was bone dry, including battery park. the water was still pretty choppy in battery park and it was windy as hell. I struggled to do 10mph coming down the west side path when I normally can cruise it at about 20mph.

My house in coastal CT has a basement floor about 4 feet above mean high tide - so after returning from the evacuation, I was greatly relieved to find the flood strand line two feet from my garage (which is in my basement) WHEW! About a half mile from my house, three whole houses were washed into the water... just gone. Dodged a slow bullet...this time. Wonder what it would have been like if it had remained a Cat 3?
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....Replace "our" with "my" ? Half a million people are without power, some people are dead, and some people are still waiting to see if their local rivers will destroy their home or not.

No offense, but show a little respect.

CrankyFranky, you are a lucky guy! Glad your house escaped flooding narrowly. I doubt the evacuation was a pleasant experience, though. Did you have a place to stay with friends/relatives, or had to share some shelter with strangers?:rolleyes:

Indeed. One thing new Bikeforums members should learn is never to disrespect Miss Kenton.

We were quite lucky on my street near Hartford. Just lots of rain and some moderately strong but steady wind. Dry basement, no power outage. However, nearby there were those who were wiped out and much of the state lost power.

Oh, and Salmosebago, let's face it, high bush and low bush blueberries can hardly be called the same fruit. I can confidently say this having been born and raised in the NJ blueberry region and then living for the past 30 years in New England with much travel to Downeast Maine. High bush berries are larger and juicier, while the lowbush berries are smaller with a much more concentrated blueberry flavor. I like them both, but the best ones are the wild ones that you pick while hiking around the coastal hills of Maine. Or maybe the best ones are the wild ones that you pick while hiking through the Pine Barrens of So. Jersey. I'm still working on it.

Silly Yanks. The best blueberries are the ones you pick and eat while wandering around in the wild. Doesn't matter where you are. Every minute off the branch, the berries lose flavor. BC produces 89 million pounds annually compared to 52 million from NJ and 83 million from Michigan. Maine is around 65 million, primarily wild. BC doesn't include wild berries in crop volumes so make all the claims you like! :p

..and back to the news, I am glad things went pretty well relative to the storm. It could have been much worse.

any word on what river road looks like?

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D & R Canal near princeton yesterday before the river finished rising. The tow path is about 500 feet behind the edge of the water (behind those trees) - a true blow to recreation and commuting by bicycle. More importantly, hopefully the emergency responders in who were hospitalized recover quickly. A street sign hundreds of feet from Carnege lake was submerged up to the actual sign itself - I haven't seen that since we traveled by Mississipi river flooding in the late nineties.

The Millstone drained alot this morning by me, not sure about about the Canal & river down there though...

A couple roadies were out the morning of the storm, trying to make the best of the earily quiet roads. A lot of bikers were biking the local paths' last night - there was water past the top of my chain even where no body of water existed. From what I hear, it sounds like the trails at the bottom of Jamesburg Municiple are likely to be quite washed out, too.

I'm glad the wind around here hadn't gotten high enough to pick up all the old abandoned wal-mart kids' bikes people left unsecured in the parking lots.

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Things got beautiful by yesterday evening though - the reflective areas were deep standing water (bike path and field) where none had existed the day before.

Large parts of Somerset County, New Jersey look like a war zone. I tried to drive through the Warren / Martinsville area this morning, and it seemed like every other road was unpassable. Trees and power lines were down, other trees were leaning against power lines, streams were flowing across roads, etc. Power is out for the entire area, and for large parts of Bridgewater, including my home. :-(

Fortunately, my 9-year old daughter knows how to turn lemons into lemonade. We had a very enjoyable "dark party" yesterday from 8 to 10, with a wide range of events planned. It was fun, but I'm hoping it doesn't turn into a nightly event for the rest of the week.

Words that invariably precede an offensive remark. I am an employee of a New Jersey county agency that serves its citizens to the best of our abilities on a daily basis. Your assumption that my choice of the word "our" encompassed the entire population of New Jersey rather than the members of my own domicile, coupled with the insinuation that I have little regard for the unfortunate residents of this state is both presumptuous and offensive. I bid you good day, sir/madam.

get some reading comprehension will ya? for a lot of us the storm was a complete joke vs how it was hyped. She stated that but also said she wasn't complaining. there was no disrespect towards anyone.

Given that 'reports of our impending doom' is an exaggeration in its own right, but some peoples' doom did indeed come, pending the individuals definition of doom, I thought it was either callous or disrespectful to define said doom simply in terms of personal kin.

I don't think the national media has necessarily covered the worse hit areas - just the well known ones.

There SHOULD be respect towards the people who lost alot, and the people who helped people from loosing alot more.

I for one lost almost nothing, and am new to this whole 'hurricane' thing.

Better hear it on the net than several months later walking around an area still waiting for insurance claims to come through, IMHO.

Thanks for asking! I had the great fortune of having my son (who had rented for the last two decades) offering to put us up about 20 miles north in his newly-purchased home of four months... sufficiently inland and away from trees so it wasn't completely scary. No damage there, unlike northwestern CT, New York state, Vermont, etc. etc. Our Rat terrier really appreciated being close to his family during the howling winds!
Oh - make that four houses were washed away, with at least eight more with severe structural damage. No lives lost, but the emergency crews had a heck of a time because lots for people stayed in their houses so they could "watch the waves"!

This storm taught me a few things about hurricane predictions.

Namely that it's very complicated. A Cat 1 with a 4 ft storm surge may mean zip to many communities. Except if the storm speeds up in the 12-18 hrs preceding (Like Irene) and now hits at or near high tide (Like Irene). Then maybe throw in a full moon (Like Irene) and suddenly you have a surge that would be expected with a Cat 2. And maybe you're on the east side of the storm where you've got more wind speed to push the water ahead of the storm and suddenly it's a lot more surge.

So you live in a zone where the FEMA map says is safe from a Cat 3, but suddenly your not. This BTW, is something the FEMA maps do not address, all the variables of forward speed, tide schedule, moon position, eye landfall, etc...

Didn't happen to that extent with Irene, as the storm headed over NJ a bit and lost some strength, but it was friggin close !

Thus the authorities are telling you to get out as all these variables don't come into play until those final 12 - 18 hrs and that's not enough time to warn 300,000 people to get out, so they HAVE to play it safe and the media has a job to get that message out. Is it hype ?. Only when your not the one with a flooded house.

I for one, will never again question the government for making a tough call.