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How’s it looking in Far Rockaway? What are we coming home to?
I would like to know that also. How badly did we get flooded? Any damage anywhere? How soon can we head back?
😀 Zuberman! 😀
I’d like to third that- I’m supposed to be heading into Sh’or Yoshuv tomorrow or Tuesday, was there any damage there?
I heard there was looting…
I’m a refugee from Bayswater. I tried calling home, as well as a bunch of neighbors. No one’s answering machine picked up, so I suspect either power is out or telephones are out. From what I’ve read, the roads are mostly passable.
Routine teuton eiffel-lootin’
My yeshiva starts on Wednesday. Do you think things will be back to normal by then?
Yes
I never left. B”H all is well. Looks like zero to minimal flooding, just from rainwater in a few spots and intersections, and nothing more than a few inches. Some trees and branches are down. Most of the power is up, I hear (at least I have power, but I have LIPA). Rumors of some looting in a couple of places, including Oak Drive – but I took a drive down there this morning and there didn’t seem to be anything amiss, so I can’t confirm.
Bottom line – come back, clean out your gutters, and push the twigs off your car. Nothing much more than that for the most part except for a couple of isolated incidents.
LIPA serves Far Rockaway, Queens?
Yes, LIPA serves Far Rockaway, but apparently Mayor Bloomberg doesn’t know it (at least he only had a Con Ed spokesman at his drasha). I looked on the LIPA website, and there seems to be an outage in parts of FR, though it’s not very specific. My answering machine still isn’t responding, so I suspect we’re out. RSRH, did you go to shul Shabbos morning? How many showed up?
lipa the singer?
Long Island Power Authority…
I daven at Sharrey, which was filled pretty much like regular for shachris, mincha, and maariv on shabbos. They also had minyanim this morning as usual. I heard the White Shul was closed after 1 PM on shabbos afternoon, but on shabbos morning it was business as usual. I can’t speak to other shuls in Far Rockaway, especially those closer to Seagirt Blvd, but I did see people closing up the Sulitzer Bais Midrash at around 9 PM on motzai shabbos, so I assume they had minyanim as well.
Brach’s is open, as are some of the stores on Central Ave. The neighborhood is a bit dirty and there is an occasional tree blocking a lane here and there but really not as bad as that tornado last year or the storm we had that motzai shabbos in March.
Jarvis by Tag and Lanett by Rabbi Brown’s shul were very badly flooded. Like halfway up the mailboxes but the water receded already. There definitely was a lot of damage done to trees in this area too. I saw the entire sidewalk torn up because of a tree that was completely uprooted.
The surf at the beach is very high too!
I wasn’t home for Shabbos, but came back this afternoon. Power is on, boruch HaShem. I don’t know if there was an outage over Shabbos. Please, be very, very, very cautious re trees and wires. As mentioned – the flooding loosens trees and the trees fall. Some trees fell in Boro Park. Please be very cautious!
Also, it’s very windy out there right now.
power was out since 730 am- now just turned back on- damage is not so bad- i dont know about damage from inside houses though- there was looting on cedar lawn- and a few failed attempts of lootin in bayswater and reads lane- BH” ppl were suspicious tackled them and called the cops!
haha lipa the singer! good one! LIPA ROCKS!!!
Gee I didn’t realize that so many posters lived in far rockaway too. Cool! So I am not the only one! I still haven’t gotten home yet (public transportation is still down) so I will hopefully be going home from work tomorrow (if I can get there)
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