We are fortunate to live in a newer area, in which all of the hurricane codes resulting from Andrew were in place. As a result, when the three hurricanes passed through in the early 2000s, the interruption, if any, was minimal. It's amazing how little the changes were in residential construction and how much difference they made in the integrity of the homes built with the revised hurricane codes.
All of our infrastructure is underground, so no power outages or loss of Internet/cable/phone. When you consider that the area where this hurricane hit is relatively unchanged (residential areas, that is) for easily 50 years or more, it's easy to comprehend why services will take so long to restore. I hope they don't allow construction on the barrier islands, as they will be damaged or disappear again. Consider that these areas can only be insured through the Federal flood insurance program, meaning that we, as taxpayers, cover the losses... Dan Sent from my iPad On Nov 1, 2012, at 4:08 PM, andrew strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > We got between 5 and 6 inches of rain betwewen Sunday at 6 pm and > Tuesday morining, accompanied by wind gusts to 60 mph. The entire DC > metropolitan area was basically shut down for 2 days (Monday and > Tuesday) but mercifully there was little wind damage in our > neighborhood. This may be as a result of the violent derecho storm in > late June that ripped out huge numbers of mature, weakened trees. Our > power went out twice on Monday, the scond time for 3 hours, but that > caused miniscule hardship in comparison to what others suffered. The > local utility (Pepco) was able to plan in advance and request crews > from other parts of the region (1800 workers) which helped speed up > reconnection times. > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> wrote: >> On 01/11/2012 2:55 PM, andrew strasfogel wrote: >>> >>> Sounds grim. The photo of the NJ roller coaster (formerly on dry >>> land) that's now resting offshore in the lapping ocean is a vivid >>> display of the power of this storm. My friend's brother in Stamford, >>> CT has his home under water. In my lifetime I have never seen >>> anything this devastating and widespread. >> How are things in DC, Andrew? >> >> Randy >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
