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37 minutes ago, FPizz said:

Thats why having solar panels is nice. I have an electric heater, so its free 

Yea I have the solar and the heat pump too. It will still take a bite out of your energy bank lol

78 today 

2 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

that'll cost you $200 to get it to 80

I’ll probably jump in tomorrow when it’s in the low 70s and call it a season 

1 hour ago, FPizz said:

Pool is getting closed next week so figured I'd just let the temp drop, but just turned the heater on.  I can probably get the water to 80 tomorrow and take one last dip.  

my pool is currently 70...not sure its worth it...

My September data. Last September was 67.3 and 3.26"

3 hours ago, STORMANLI said:

5.61" 5pm

9am Larkfield Rd south of Jericho Tpke Northbound where it becomes 2 lanes down to 1 in flooding.

Always floods there real bad. Into movie theater parking lot 

1 hour ago, uofmiami said:

You surpassed me to no surprise, 4.81" so far.  You really got nailed yesterday afternoon onward it seems.

Yea we got stuck under one of those feeder bands all evening. The yard is a swamp. Wrapping up now and 5.06”. 

26 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

still raining some here but mostly over.  About 1.75 storm total.  Happy to miss the bigger amts seen elsewhere

5.01” here. Crazy gradient 

12 minutes ago, nycwinter said:

 

From a wind/flooding perspective yes. Maybe a bit more rain since they usually come in October/November when storms are less juiced up

4.26”. Please make it stop

3.83”. Bands have been relentless 

3.08” so far in my PWS which has trees to the NE so the reading is definitely a bit low. Another big time rain event, so many this year. 

50 minutes ago, uofmiami said:

Post Sandy PSE&G has been more aggressive with cutting back trees from the lines, especially transmission lines.  They also did a lot of FEMA money replacement projects of the transmission lines too.  Perhaps it’s paying off or it’s just pure luck the outages weren’t worse. 

Most of our infrastructure and trees is battled hardened. Going to take more than 55 mph winds to do real damage anymore. They replaced many older light pole with hurricane poles and trimmed trees. 

8 hours ago, vortex95 said:

Fallacious argument. 

The trouble w/ the "ppl are dying!" argument is that it essentially dictates that anything less than death is trivial and not worth discussing.  That is among the most vapid and intellectually lazy rebuttals around.

Can you objectively say these fatalities would not have occurred anyway if there were more reaonsble and less-hyped warnings?

Not every fatality is due to not enough warnings or alerts.  Many ppl will ignore warnings and go out/take risks despite warnings b/c they have become apathetic to the relentless hype.   Some ppl just plain resist authority/being told what to do.  And some do take warnings seriously, stay home, and a tree crashes into their home, causing a fatality.  All the warnings in the world is not going to prevent something like that from happening.

So I would avoid the high-horse, virtue signaling here and understand that more is not always better and things are not a simple 1-1 correlation when it comes to complex societal issues.
 

Que?

2.74” storm total and winds topped out mid 50s. Pretty standard nor’easter for Long Island. 

29 minutes ago, vortex95 said:

Awareness is a two way street.  You don't need to be relentlessly reminded on how "dangerous" it out out there, esp. when it is not that "dangerous" overall.  Constant negative like that wears on society, promotes anxiety, and impacts zeitgeist, among other things.  You start viewing the world as worse that is actually is, and many ppl think the wx is worse and unlike anything society has ever experienced before b/c of wx hype and the ordinary is constantly turned into the extraordinary  That is not good.  Decisions and policy are made from such false perceptions, never mind needless cancellations, as a couple of examples.
 

People died from falling trees in NYC today. 

Yawn. 1.70” of rain and 45 mph winds. 

Winds underperforming tonight. Most areas gusting to 45 but nothing more. Last night probably the main show for winds 

3 minutes ago, WestBabylonWeather said:

Heavy rain and wind now 

Yea definitely picked up big time. Regularly gusting to 45 or so. Both ISP and FRG gusted to 43 at the top of the hour so it tracks. 

1 minute ago, Intensewind002 said:

Some rain showers moving through again, gusting about 35-40 mph

Definitely picking up 

Winds are roaring again. Constant to near 40. 

At the boat and winds are gusting about 33 knots per the boats instruments. Huntington harbor about 2 feet above normal but not really flooding 

Things of calmed down a bit. 1.03” so far and just some branches around the yard 

Bust

1 minute ago, GaWx said:

Suffolk outages have increased from ~3K (0.5%) to ~5K (0.8%) within the last hour.

Sitting outside and see some flashes in the sky, so transformers definitely popping