Just saw some pictures of LGA's runways under water... over on Airliners.net.... crazy

Glad to hear you're OK.  I'm seeing a lot on the news now, very bad stuff.

Interest about the pressure. 

Hurricane Sandy:

This article states 943mb, "lowest central pressure ever recorded north of Cape Hatteras."

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346084/title/Low_central_pressure_amo...

Hurricane Andrew, 922mb per Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Andrew

from myself:

Andrew was a small, very fast moving storm, very high wind speeds with a lot of tornadic activity.  It passed through in only 3 hours, not a whole lot of rain, with very little weather aftermath, (that is, once it was gone, everything calmed down quickly) however, the high winds combined with tornadic activity caused massive damage.  Certain areas around here are prone to flooding, but it wasn't anything like Sandy's flooding.  I don't recall exactly if there even was any flooding.  My area has never flooded, regardless of rain impact. 

Sandy was kind of the opposite, lower wind speeds, but huge and with a lot of moisture. 

We here in South Florida were fortunate it missed us, but having been through many of these, feel greatly for those who were affected by Sandy. 

Apex wrote on Oct 31^st, 2012 at 8:52am:

Last pressure I bothered to listen for on the KEWR ATIS was 28.51"; pretty damn low.
The windows that we lost here were all sucked out, not blown in, and the whole place shook from the wind. Being half-Irish, I got pretty nervous when the wind finally started moaning and wailing like a banshee. Or maybe it's because I live in a 100-yr-old wood-framed brick building, 4 stories high; it's impressive that it took this beating with so little damage. We have a 70-foot brick smokestack in back, with a few cracks that I  like to keep an eye on, and it is still standing. Since I moved in, that will be two hurricanes, numerous blizzards, and one earthquake that it has withstood. And I moved in about 85 years after the place was built. 

But the rain was really like blowing mist all night, thank goodness. Street flooding was minimal here, about 10 miles from the parts of Manhattan that were swamped at high tide.
Since the lights came on over in the Ironbound last night, things are pretty much back to normal in my neighborhood... but there is still a statewide fuel-rationing rule in effect: on alternating days, odd or even-numbered license plates can line up for gasoline (vanity plates are lumped in the "odd" category). I have enough in the Mustang's tank to get me where I have to go tomorrow, and there is more fuel stashed there already. 


I visited 47N today, on the outside chance that there would be glidering going on. That never happened, but I saw that overall, I think the airport made out OK, even though winds were very strong there during the storm. Three airplanes I saw had significant damage, like they'd gotten loose, and the rest appeared unscathed. The cheaper-looking canopy covers were in tatters. The rickety old T-hangars fared very well, except for one, which had major damage to the currogated-steel roof, and had both sliding doors torn off. It was on in the leeward side during the storm, so go figure.

The club's towplane hangar has a chunk missing from one door (flying debris I guess), but the towplane is fine and someone threw a tarp over the front of it.
The club gliders, despite being tied down out in the open in winds approaching Vne for both, did very well. I did see a little problem with the 2-33's rudder, but a closer look will be needed to determine how bad it is. The important thing is that neither one of them got loose... that would have been disastrous.