81 mph Winds Sweep Rochester/Lake Ontario Shore Wednesday

[MrRochesterNY]

The National Weather Service warned that Wednesday would be a windy day in our area, but nobody envisioned what happened. 100,000 people without electricity or heat, with outdoor temperatures around freezing and falling. People out on the street, walking or waiting for a bus, clutching lamp posts or street-sign poles to keep from being blown down. Trees crashing onto parked cars or house rooftops. Century old trees, rooted in soil thawed by the warmest February in decades, toppled, with their massive ten-foot diameter root balls torn out of the ground. Grocery stores, without electricity, emptying their freezers and shipping the thawing food to area food pantries rather than let it waste.

With the help of crews from other cities, power is slowly being restored. But insurance companies are swamped with the avalanche of damage claims by local policy holders. Schools still closed, but expected to reopen Monday. McDonalds, Pizza Hut, KFC doing a booming take-out business.

 

[nycguydowntown]

fuck March and it's shitty weather in the North East---it's been a roller coaster ride of 75 to 25.

 

[rareboy]

It certainly was breezy.

 

[ronboy]

Sir Ron is doing all right.
Aside from a pine tree falling in my front yard, I made out pretty well.
Luckily it missed my house entirely.
Two days off from school was an unexpected windfall!
Also, my power only flickered, but didn't go out! For that, I am most grateful!

 

[gsdx]

In like a lion. Out like a lamb.

 

[MrRochesterNY]

Sir Ron is doing all right.
Aside from a pine tree falling in my front yard, I made out pretty well.
Luckily it missed my house entirely.
Two days off from school was an unexpected windfall!
Also, my power only flickered, but didn't go out! For that, I am most grateful!

We were without power for a little more than 24 houts. Had a huge tree limb and braches fall on our garage, where it still sits entangled with power and cable lines. My daughter, who works for BOCES and is also an EMT leader at the liocal fire house, was also off from school but working like a dog fielding 911 emergency calls.

(For those not from this area, BOCES is the Board of Cooperative Educational Services)

 

[rareboy]

It is pretty fucking windy here again today.

Raw and cold.

 

[star-warrior]

Batten down the hatches!

 

[peeonme]

Yesterday (Thursday) we had winds with gusts up to 60plus mph, my mobile home shook some during this but we have our utilities underground and didn't lose power.

 

[ronboy]

We were without power for a little more than 24 houts. Had a huge tree limb and braches fall on our garage, where it still sits entangled with power and cable lines. My daughter, who works for BOCES and is also an EMT leader at the liocal fire house, was also off from school but working like a dog fielding 911 emergency calls.

(For those not from this area, BOCES is the Board of Cooperative Educational Services)

So sorry to hear that. I know that people in Irondequoit, Spencerport, Webster, Ogden, and Greece were hit really bad! I do have lots of yard clean up to do ...branches from older trees and finding someone to grind the stump from the pine that fell. (The tree is already cut up and at the curb...my day yesterday).