************Hurricane Sandy Thread************ vol. BE SAFE!!!

[rillo561]

The city doesn't have limited gasoline. The problem is that you need power to use the pumps and because power has been knocked out for some of LI, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and New Jersey you see this. They are driving from all over to find a gas station.

This, just recently down here gas stations were required to have generators so they can pump gas. Gas isn't limited, just gas stations aren't prepared for something like this.

 

[thecoldest343]

dudes trying to make a hustle out of this desrve a beating, reselling gas to make a quick buck is damn shameful in a time like this, piece of **** individuals.

Their small compared to what some are looking to make,insurance claims,FEMA claims,after the cleanup cheaper plots of goldenmine land,flood insurance numbers are going to rise and if you didn't have it before you want it now.
Now is it wrong or right?thats entirely up to the individual but in a capitalist society nothing gets in the way of profit,not even a hurricane by the name of Sandy.

 

[macbk]

Cuomo said 8 million gallons of gasoline have been delivered to the region since the Coast Guard re-opened the harbor for tanker traffic and another 28 million gallons will be delivered in the next few days.

"You will see quickly a real abatement on that pressure on the fuel system," he said.

Additionally, the Department of Defense will be setting up 5 mobile gas stations in the city and Long Island that will give motorists up to 10 gallons of free gas, he said.

"Fuel is on its way.," Cuomo said. "You don’t have to panic. We don’t need anxiety.We don’t need the lines. Be prudent but fuel is on the way."

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/da...vice-restored-60-of-power-more-gas-on-the-way

I'm not gonna bother waiting on asinine lines.

 

[diewitsjames]

anyone know how long the gas lines are right now in brooklyn (bensonhurst/bayridge)? should i just wait it out until monday?

 

[nyc game]

This whole thing is an embarrassment.
Been without power and hot water since Monday 7pm. Been going to work all week feeling dirty.
No heat freezing my balls off at night.

Me too, Still have no power or heat, people saying use more covers, ain't doing a thing when the sheets/air/quilts are ice cold :x:x

thick socks and I still feel the breeze still going to work unshaven feeling like a bum right now.

But hey the world still turns, and a capitalistic society still wants to make money at whatever cost.

What else is new with this country.

 

[heliumclinton]

Free gas? Where

 

[geoff peterson]

 Astoria Blvd and 43rd st has gas, there's a separate line for people with gas cans only waited 30 mins, but the line for cars is like 6 blocks long and there's a 40$ limit for any gas purchase.

 

[don ramon]

after i got gas for my mom last night at 3:30am i went and got my car and filled that **** up right quick.

in all i was on line for a total of like 2.5 hours for both cars. not bad. no way i would do it during the day. the lines are crazy today

good luck y'all

 

[whyhellothere]

this whole weekend should been free damn greedy MTA

"B-b-b-but we have to make money somewhere. The city needs to get back into a r-r-r-routine." - MTA

I can take the Q to 57th and walk over to Columbus Circle for school, but it would be clutch to have the B up and running again also.

hope they have it running by monday. I dont get how the Q & the D can run but the B cant yet they share the same tracks. :\

 

[krazy88s]

I had to wait 4 hours for gas yesterday. Here in central NJ most don't have any power or anything. Since the food in the freezer and fridge has gone bad by now, I hear FEMA will give you money for groceries and such. Anyone hear of such a thing

 

[shatterkneesinc]

@ the mta

some of us cant even buy a metro card or know where to buy one

 

[macbk]

anyone know how long the gas lines are right now in brooklyn (bensonhurst/bayridge)? should i just wait it out until monday?

I have friends and family in Bay Ridge and they've all said it was a zoo. This was as of yesterday, I'm sure it's the same today.

 

[squatchnt]

Havent had power since Monday night. Luckily my family is safe and no damage to my house. Haven't been to work all week because my workplace had no power either. Still had ht water so my balls don't smell and used the stove for heat, oven has electronic ignition so no bueno. BBQ'd my frozen meats as they thawed so overall I'm blessed. At my bros house for a non-pilgrim style night with heat, tv, and Internet. Power company said maybe next Friday for power! Small thing to a giant, but feel bad for those who fared waaaay worse than me. People died and lost everything so I can deal without electricity for a while. See you soon NT!

 

[gregzzy23]

It is wildly cold in my house. At least I have everything but heat and hot water. welp, let me go boil a few bowls of water

 

[downyboy]

What is the price of gas right now in NYC? Did they adjust the price or try to maintain prices at regular rates?

 

[whyhellothere]

"The public hearing scheduled for Nov. 7 in Brooklyn on the proposed increases to fares and tolls will go on as planned."

|I

 

[throwback1718]

For the most part gas is the regular price. But some places have been putting it up to 7 bucks a gallon I've heard.

I need gas.... NAOW lines are filthy

 

[Undefined]

From a friend off of facebook:

Gov Cuomo of NY has announced military refueling trucks at the direction of Predsident Obama will be deployed throughout NYC & Long Island and vehicles will be able to fill up directly from the truck for free. There will be a 10 gallon limit per vehicle. Share this with your fellow New Yorkers!

Locations they will be at:
In Staten Island: 321 Manor Road
In Long Island: 63 Babylon Turnpike Freeport, NY
In Brooklyn: 1579 Bedford Ave. Brooklyn Armory
In Bronx: 10 West 195th St.
In Queens,: 93-05 160th St in Jamaica
Trucks are being deployed through the morning and will be available all day.


...They're probably lines, but its also free gas.

 

[lucasofwg]

Filled up at Sunoco on Stewart ave in Garden City. 3.99 regular,2.5 hour wait, tank was on E. i was turning my car off and on every time I had to move up. Wasn't that bad to be honest

 

[jhawk826]

Squatch,

No power until next week? You're a trooper. I'd lose it.

Regarding the MTA meeting, at this point I could care less. They're doing what they can to get NYC up and running. After seeing what could happen when mass transit isn't available, $2.50 won't be much. I am tired of the fare hikes, but we have it good. This city can't handle everyone driving.

 

[whyhellothere]

Subways Back to 84 Percent Monday Morning, But No L or G-Train Service Until Sometime Next Week

By Matt Chaban 3:03pm

(MTA/Flickr)

So the MTA has done an unbelievable job restoring subway service after so much of the system was knocked out following Superstorm Sandy. Even MTA chief Joe Lhota said as much this morning at a press briefing. “I’m really proud of the MTA for coming back as fast as it did,” he said standing outside the 69th Regimental Armory. “It exceeded most of the public’s expectation and it exceeded my expectations, too. I didn’t think I’d be standing here today telling you we’d be at 81 percent.”

Service will be back to 84 percent by Monday, covering most of Lower Manhattan with many lines fully restored. In addition to the 4/5/6 and 7-train resuming full service this morning, the B/D/F/M lines will all be back later today. The Q-train will be back, as well, from Astoria all the way to storm-ravaged Coney Island. The 2/3 will resume full service between Brooklyn and the Bronx tonight or tomorrow. Thanks to the resumption of subway service, the MTA will stop running the bus bridge that has been bringing Brooklynites into Manhattan Saturday afternoon.

By Monday, the E-train will resume service from Jamaica to the World Trade Center and the N train will run from Astoria to 59th Street in Sunset Park though service beyond there will not be back. The A-train will also resume service downtown, from 168th Street in Harlem to Lefferts Boulevard/Ozone Park in Queens. The 1-train will be running to Rector Street but not South Ferry, where photos of flooding have been a sensation on the Internet. “We should be back to close to full service in time for the commute Monday morning,” Mr. Lhota said.

Trains to the Rockaways are still months away, due to destruction on the Broad Channel crossing, as The Observer previously reported. And North Brooklyn and their hipster-beloved trains remain out of luck—there will be no service on the L or the G trains until those lines can be pumped out at some point next week.

“The L, I’m particularly worried about because of how long the water is,” Mr. Lhota said. “My hope is it’s one day next week, I really do.” The MTA is pointing to restored M and J service into Manhattan as an alternative route for North Brooklynites into the city.

There are other outlying sections of the train without service, like the piece of the A-train in Washington Heights and Inwood north of the 168th Street station.

The system now has full power, and it is only residual flooding that is holding stations back from opening. “As of Friday night, we had 60 percent of our system up and running, by tonight we’re adding another 21 percent, so we’ll be at 81 percent, and by Monday, we’ll only have 16 percent to go,” Mr. Lhota said.

The system has been coming back “inch by inch, rail by rail,” Mr. Lhota added.

Update:An MTA spokesman just provided the following explanation for why the MTA has yet to be able to provide at least partial service along the L and G lines within Brooklyn where the tracks are not flooded:

“The answer on the L is that it’s impossible to turn trains around easily mid-route for a Brooklyn shuttle service,” Mr. Lisberg wrote in an email. “Very difficult to set up because of the track layout. They may try now that other lines are getting better service, but that’s just a discussion at this point. As for the G, enough of it is parallel to other lines—plus the naturally low ridership.”

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Glad they got so much of the system fixed already.
Still dont get the lack of B train service.

 

[chino905]

Very impressive from the MTA. Glad the A train will be back to normal come Monday

 

[whyhellothere]

Sheepshead Bay Residents Sleep With Knives To Fight Off Looters

More pics of sheepshead

Sheepshead Bay hasn't been getting as much attention as other parts of NYC that have been ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, but that doesn't mean things aren't bad for residents there. Electricity is still down in many neighborhoods, flooding has damaged countless homes, and locals say there's been an inadequate response by FEMA and Red Cross. And they've had to worry about looters as well: "We're all keeping an eye out once the sun goes down. We're trying to ward off looters and stuff like that," said Brian Otano. "It's ******g miserable here."

Brian and his brother Jason have been staying with their mother in her home at East 23rd Street, between Voorhies Avenue and Shore Parkway, where she's lived for over 30 years. The brothers told us that they've been sleeping with knives, fire extinguishers, and other weapons (no firearms): "It's common sense stuff, keeping stuff on hand, sleeping with weapons," said Brian. "It's not like Lord of the Flies, we're not fashioning spears or anything."

"There's no power on this block, no heat, no electricity," Brian continued. "We just got a hold of a generator, but it's basically useless unless we can find gas." He said the outages are spotty: you can bike two blocks in any direction and find fully-powered homes, but they're too worried to leave their home because of looters. "One person made the fortunate mistake of going into a retired officer's house," said Jason, who has previously run for state Senate in the 18th district in Brooklyn. "It didn't turn out well for him."

"Nobody on this block came out okay, there's been a massive amount of destruction," Brian said. He noted that FEMA came by to see one house on the block, but they haven't received much aid besides that. What they really need is Con Ed to come fix the power:
"It's one of those situations where we're basically fending for oursleves, until those agencies show up," Brian added. "Our basement is flooded floor to ceiling, there's a foot of water on the first floor...our story is not unique, everyone on the block is dealing with the same stuff."

But neighbors are watching out for each other: "We've been patrolling, keeping our eyes open," said Brian. "There's a family with three women down the block, they're plunged completely into darkness, no street light or anything. So we're conscious of families like that."

Matt Kerestesy saw a similar dynamic when he went to bring supplies to a friend in Sheepshead Bay. "The little bungalow community she lives in was nearly wiped out by Sandy," he told us. "Several homes were destroyed and flooding destroyed all of the personal belongings in the houses still standing. If that's not bad enough looters moved in and cleaned out all the houses of people who evacuated." You can see some more of his photos from the trip here. "It was a little scary down there," he added. "The house my friend is in probably isn't safe to be in, structurally, but she can't leave because looters will ransack the place."

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[Mactastic4167]

Had the liberty of stacking pallets today at my base here in Washington and watched as they left along with electrical company trucks on our cargo planes headed for the east coast.

For you guys still in the dark, you and your families are in my families prayers.

 

[just nikes]

My power just went out again.. And i thought i was one of the lucky ones getting it back wednesday night

EDIT - it's back along with most of my neighbors