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the devastation is unbelievable, glad that all the members are - relatively - unharmed; my whole family in NJ is without power, no info when it will realistically be restored - thanks god for facebook, we at least know they too are unharmed, but shivering.

a heartwarming pic from facebook, cheers for Ralph !

Thank you. We're very fortunate that we are ok and got power back fairly quickly. There are still millions without power and just 4 miles to the east is total destruction.

The storm was moving slowly at sea until it made its left hand turn right into us, at that time it sped up to 28 mph. Yea it was only a cat 1, I can't imagine how Florida and the Gulf coast absorb a cat 5!! It actually didn't officially make landfall as a hurricane but it was still a monster. This storm was over 900 miles wide with record low pressure, lowest ever measured in Atlantic Ocean. That's two years in a row that the jersey shore got a direct hit, the weather patterns are a changin!!!!

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Even though this was resurrected with spam, as we have all seen, most of the world has moved on to topics and issues other than Hurricane Sandy. Mainstream media finished with it months ago. It frustrates me that mainstream media (at least in the US) has the attention of goldfish. But the term "finished" is anything but appropriate.

Sadly, the people in the areas hit hardest are anything but 'finished'. Every day they still wake up to a world of bitter, nasty, unfathomable, utter & complete destruction. It's a world that not many people have seen and one that is virtually impossible to understand fully unless they themselves have experienced it. They have to deal with the human loss of life. They have to deal with animal/companion animal loss of life. They have to deal with the psychological distress of realizing that most things they ever owned are gone. They have to deal with knowing that irreplaceable heirlooms, memories from a different era, patterned ritual of living, historical documents, basic things that define us as individuals...it's all gone. The road to recovery from this is going to be measured in years, not months and surely not weeks. My heart goes out to those who suffered such losses.

And I'm glad to hear your loved ones are okay, Fred.