Good news and not so much from Paul, Dammit!
I had posted about
Paul, Dammit! before -- a Sea Captain currently working in the New York City area and was hunkering down.
Today
he writes:
hunkered down
So we're in a hurricane berth, wedged between a couple of Army Corps of Engineers dredge ships, and there are 20 (!) dock lines out securing us to a dock that will probably be underwater in about 6 hours, but even so, we're in a nice protected spot up in Pt. Elizabeth NJ, which is good, because that bitch storm Sandy is about to rain on us directly overhead tomorrow.
With a 6-11 foot storm surge predicted and 2 days of sustained storm-force or better winds, my psychic alter-ego, Nostradumbass, predicts a busy time tending lines and trying to keep us in the water and not on top of the dock or floating into the warehouses across the quay.
Also, it occurs to me that my truck is sitting in Red Hook NY, which has been evacuated for fear of extensive flooding. My truck is in a lovely parking lot with a water view, only 6 feet or so above the high tide line.
Fuck.
His crew is in for a busy day or two -- 20 lines is a lot. Most ships will do six or eight under average weather. This is not average. Busier than a sailor with two fids...
Posted by DaveH at October 28, 2012 9:10 PM