[nrv-hams] Hurricane Sandy

Wed Oct 31 15:40:38 EDT 2012

We in the NRV are the fortunate ones. My relatives whom I just reported on live outside of Beckley, West Virginia, about 2.5 hours from here. I was there one day before Sandy hit. They have no personal generator, no medical care in their town, only one grocery store in their town, etc. They both have worked all their lives in very responsible professional positions (math teacher in the high school and the former post master), have stayed in their home town to take care of a 91 year old mother.

They remain snowed in with the last measurement being 21 inches and piling up. They have no electricity and the one snow plow that came down their street got stuck and had to be pulled out by another. Neither finished plowing their street nor have they been back. They still have running water and only their cellphone with no way to recharge their battery. They have 3 days of food because the forcast for their small town wasn't that bad; they anticipated being able to get out as usual to go to their one grocery store. This has never happened to them before. Small town rural areas are typically left for last for services to rescue them.

The below was forwarded to me. I have no direct way of checking out the generalities but have spent much time working with our blue colar or working class friends who can not afford to live in the city or neighborhood or community where they work. They thus drive back and forth to work.

A hotel bellman said he was worried about his mother uptown. A maid said she had been calling her family in Queens. A garage attendant said he hadn’t been able to contact his only relative – a sister in New Jersey – since the storm hit. Asked where he weathered the hurricane, his answer was simple. 
“I slept in my car,” he said. 

Sandy humbled every one of the 19 million people in the New York City metropolitan area. But it humbled some more than others in an increasingly economically divided city. 
Editor's Notes:

Dennis W4ODY
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My son, his wife, and my ex live in Central New Jersey.  They can
barely get out but suffered no house damage.  No electricity, gas
intermittent,  and being told it might be a week.  No hype about how
devastating it was going to be to that area.

The only exaggeration was the forecast for Blacksburg and that only
slightly.  The "gist of it" was right.

Bob

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Cogswell, Dennis <dcogswel at radford.edu> wrote:
> Not according to my relatives who have 21 inches at their in town location, no electricity, enough food for 3days they are snowed in as plow got stuck on their street, got pulled out and hasn't been back.  Yes it is quite real to them and everyone else in town. W4ODY
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Oct 31, 2012, at 7:05 AM, "dwylam at verizon.net<mailto:dwylam at verizon.net>" <dwylam at verizon.net<mailto:dwylam at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
> 50 people dead, 8million without power, 20 billion in damage estimates, 3 feet of snow in parts of WV. Hype ?
>    Danny
>
>
> On 10/30/12, Kenneth Walker<kjwalk at gmail.com<mailto:kjwalk at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I'm with you on this. I don't own a TV except to watch movies, but when I'm
> at the hospital it's the same old junk - "Snow in the forecast" - which
> makes the whole county population run out and buy all the milk and bread it
> can get it's hands on".
>
> Warning fatigue is a real problem. I try to listen to NOAH on the radio.
>
> Ken
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Kay Craigie <n3kn at verizon.net<mailto:n3kn at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>> Over-hyping storms really rubs me the wrong way because it makes people
>> less
>> likely to pay attention when the real deal is going to happen. However, the
>> 5-day forecast for Hurricane Sandy's path that was issued today by the
>> National Weather Service shows that the New River Valley could be affected
>> somewhat. Carter N3AO has gone over to the National Weather Service office
>> this afternoon (Friday) to talk with them about their present thinking on
>> the storm's likely effect on our area next week.
>>
>> The NOAA link for the storm is
>>
>> http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/180855.shtml?5-daynl#cont
>> ents
>>
>> Looking at the storm's projected track, I'm glad I don't live in
>> southeastern Pennsylvania any more.
>> 73 - Kay N3KN
>>
>>
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