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Hurricane Sandy (3 Viewers)

Just got internet and cable in my new place. Denied by FEMA cause the wife mentioned that she had to stay at her folks for a couple nights. Still have friends in the Island Park/Long Beach areas that can't rebuild because insurance is dragging on payouts.

Hope everyone else is starting to get back to normal.

 
'Gawain said:
Just got internet and cable in my new place. Denied by FEMA cause the wife mentioned that she had to stay at her folks for a couple nights. Still have friends in the Island Park/Long Beach areas that can't rebuild because insurance is dragging on payouts. Hope everyone else is starting to get back to normal.
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What was their issue? Why are there no FEMA trailers for this thing?
 
Those of you renting who were put out, remember you don't owe for time your place was inhabitable. My buddy in Rockaway Beach had 40% of his November rent credited to December. I was just up there and while they've definitely come a long way, it's still a mess. Boardwalk gone, giant piles of random crap, sand still on the road, work crews still everywhere, cops with lights on everywhere you look. Pretty surreal. Between 9/11, the AA crash, and now this, it's crazy how much that neighborhood has been through in the last 11 years.

 
FYI

Weatherboy Weather

A very strong storm system will plow through the northeast tomorrow, setting the stage for a significant winter storm next week. Strong winds, potentially damaging, and heavy rains are possible along the NJ shore and south shore of Long Island tomorrow. Because this area is still recovering from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, residents here should be on alert for damaging gusts, coastal flooding, beach erosion, and flash flooding from rain. Wind gusts may be over tropical storm strength at times.

 
'3C said:
FYI Weatherboy WeatherA very strong storm system will plow through the northeast tomorrow, setting the stage for a significant winter storm next week. Strong winds, potentially damaging, and heavy rains are possible along the NJ shore and south shore of Long Island tomorrow. Because this area is still recovering from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, residents here should be on alert for damaging gusts, coastal flooding, beach erosion, and flash flooding from rain. Wind gusts may be over tropical storm strength at times.
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:o
 
Heh, so the wife and I moved out of the apartment in Oceanside and bought a bungalow in Bay Park. We have the harbor across the street to the east and a canal three houses to the west. Our apartment complex never made repairs. The lower units are just six feet of exposed 2X4s. Summer caused the mold smell to kick in.

In our new neighborhood a lot of people who needed to demolish are putting modular homes onto 10 foot concrete foundations. It's a pretty cool process. We are planning on staying two years until we need something bigger when we are ready to have a kid. If anyone ever wanted a house on the water of the south shore of LI, now is a great time to buy. Just need to hope, like I do, that Sandy was a once in a lifetime type of deal.

Hope all the other LI guys are back to normalcy. Still haven't landed a job like I had before the storm, but the wife's doing good for the both of us. I do freelance and some months I'm a little ahead and some a little behind, but can't really complain too much. I see my new neighbors who lost everything and it's still surreal. I can't believe sometimes that I lived through the whole thing.

Local elections are coming up and I can't believe how little Sandy talk is getting. I'm not sure what races occur in 2013, but I'd love to be involved in planning the campaign of the next person to run against Mangano. He and Murray are absolute garbage and had zero presence during the storm.

 
I still get people walking into my bank with home issues and some even just getting some of their insurance money finally. It is so easy to forget these people, but when you hear their stories and see the anguish in their faces it tears you up.

Can you imagine paying your mortgage for the last year AND paying rent at the same time? Now add the fact that your mortgage is paying what is currently an empty lot where you once lived. Tragic.

 
Btw, thoughts and prayers (my own special Jewy/agnostic kind) to those who suffered, and still suffer, from this tragedy.

 
Koya said:
Btw, thoughts and prayers (my own special Jewy/agnostic kind) to those who suffered, and still suffer, from this tragedy.
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T & P as well (my own special lapsed Catholic/Lutheran non-practicing kind) to all. I lost a couple of branches and power for two weeks. VERY lucky.

I now have several very large gas cans and a generator that I paid through the ### for- and am still thankful.

 
The Big Guy said:
I still get people walking into my bank with home issues and some even just getting some of their insurance money finally. It is so easy to forget these people, but when you hear their stories and see the anguish in their faces it tears you up.

Can you imagine paying your mortgage for the last year AND paying rent at the same time? Now add the fact that your mortgage is paying what is currently an empty lot where you once lived. Tragic.
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Maybe this is a dumb question but what is the incentive on paying your mortgage for a home you cant live in or isnt even there?

 
The City of Long Beach, which was ravaged by Sandy (the Ocean met the Bay) actually reached out to my company about potentially revitalizing their downtown. Through those efforts I've made some new friends from there area. Some great and harrowing stories that have extended even to this day. Friends living in garages, so many still displaced - and when insurance premiums catch up it will really change the nature of the community.

It's been pretty emotional for them today. We on the North Shore really got lucky, in comparison.

 
shadyridr said:
The Big Guy said:
I still get people walking into my bank with home issues and some even just getting some of their insurance money finally. It is so easy to forget these people, but when you hear their stories and see the anguish in their faces it tears you up.

Can you imagine paying your mortgage for the last year AND paying rent at the same time? Now add the fact that your mortgage is paying what is currently an empty lot where you once lived. Tragic.
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Maybe this is a dumb question but what is the incentive on paying your mortgage for a home you cant live in or isnt even there?
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Not a dumb question at all. Think about it this way, even the empty lot can be worth a half a million dollars and you might only owe 200k and when you get rebuilt it will be worth back over one million again. So you are still paying your loan because you are not willing to give up your equity.

 
Where I am in NJ, things are both good and bad. A lot of rebuilding has been done and a lot of people are pissed off that things are going slowly for themselves. Grants are not being doled out. Why some are going unclaimed is beyond me.

 
like it never happened in the EVil.

good/interesting to remember back though- trick or treating in the neighborhood was pretty great because it was only the people who HAD to stay that were here (or had nowhere else to go), including a handful of businesses that were doling out candy and grown-up food. Felt like more of a close community than ever before or since.

 
My uncle's beach house was destroyed beyond repair. He's still battling with FEMA over reimbursement. Last time they sent an adjustor, it ended with my uncle threatening to throw him into the canal and the guy running back to his car and taking off (my uncle is 6' 7" and 305 lbs.)

 
This was such a surreal time. We were very lucky - lost one big tree but it missed the house, and lost power for two weeks. Going without power that long was a pain but looking back it was such a unique experience. We stayed with my inlaws because they had a wood stove for heat. We just lit candles and actually talked instead of watching TV, checking our phones, etc. My son wasn't even 2 at the time so he had no idea, he just loved that we were all together. I don't mean this to diminish the tragedy that it was in many ways, but as I said we were very fortunate, all things considered, and I kind of look back on it fondly.

 
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