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Crap my niece in PA was taking her infant first born upstairs to bed and the bedroom ceiling collapsed. Than God no one was injured. what a mess.

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SHARKMAN

Could've been far worse. Sounds like a very lucky and fortunate escape.

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Driver8

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Wow that's amazing that they weren't injured, they're very lucky!! It was really really bad here on the jersey coast. My neighborhood is lined with beautiful pear trees in front of everyone's homes.... They're all down, it looks like a tornado ripped through here but fortunately no home damage that I've seen so far. Millions without power, phones are down, and cell phones work sparingly. It's gonna be a messy week. Hope everyone is safe.

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"I don't own any watches, I just lease them"

I feel pretty fortunate. Every person I work with that I have been able to contact is without power. We have lost land line phone service but not power. No damage to the house I can see yet. Trees really bent and moved but none down on the property so far as I can see. I spent the mid-80s in Virginia Beach and rode out several hurricanes, last 10 years in Maryland so a couple more. This was by far the worst...not even close.

No kidding - they might have been laying and playing on that bed which is now gone. My other niece and her husband then payed closer attention to the ceilings and began poking holes in some and letting the water drain. I mean these folks and their homes are used to very bad weather. They didn't catch the eye and the worst rain and wind was on the back side of the storm - at least for that area.

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SHARKMAN

My wife sent me this pic by her cousin's former neighbor who lives in Atlantic City. This is shot from the second floor of their home, the first floor obviously flooded




Oh, honey, there's a shark at the door.. Amazing.

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Scott

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Breitling Superocean 57, rose/stainless

I feel terrible for all the loses around me. My family and I are fine and experienced no damage. But we have no power and non expected for the next several days.

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Peter

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Except that the photo is a fake.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/149209

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Sergio says the devastation is terrible. Still without power at home.


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SHARKMAN

Finally got power back, have some family staying with me who have no power and had 4 feet of water in their house.

Just 4 miles from me there are houses that were washed away. Houses in the middle of the roads, boats scattered around like toys, mattresses floating in the bay, and natural gas leaks all over the barrier islands. There are lines up to 5 miles long to get car gas, and food stores are mass chaos. Just devastating. If this storm hit in August during peak vacation season there would have been mass casualties, the population during the summer increases by about 10x along the coast here.

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"I don't own any watches, I just lease them"

Except that the photo is a fake.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/149209[/quote]



... and so I forward this back to my wife, who can tell me how she got the backstory wrong. Or maybe she "got" me. Actually, good, something like that would have been surreal.

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Scott

AP Royal Oak 15400, silver
Zenith Chronomaster El Primero Classic Cars
Vintage gold Corum
Rolex DJ 36 TT, oyster dial, oyster/smooth
Baume & Mercier Riviera 200m, silver dial/aquamarine bezel
Breitling Superocean 57, rose/stainless

Here's just one of thousands of devastating photos. This is a popular beach here at the jersey shore named Normandy Beach. Before and after

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"I don't own any watches, I just lease them"

Here's another popular beach neighborhood at the shore, this is an affluent area with all multimillion dollar homes. Destroyed.

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"I don't own any watches, I just lease them"

Jesus Serge, you story and pics really bring it home. Well as much as anything can without being there. Heartbreaking stuff. This frigging storm was only a Cat 1 but became a Superstorm with record low barometer. Too make its sheer size worse, it moved so damn slow - 10mph?

Glad you are safe and on dry ground and able to help out some family. What a nightmare.


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SHARKMAN

Glad you guys are safe! I have lots of families in NJ & have told them all to prep well with gazzilion bottled water, instant food & fill up all cars full of gas & charge cellphones from car chargers. 'Cept when the power went down, so did cell service in their area. Only finally got back in touch (Facebook!) & thank God they're fine too. Fukushima without the radiation was accurate

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