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Guess what is the name of it? Irene. Last time it stood test of storm. After storm was gone, I was imaging North America and Pelican. The skies were darker than usual because of power loss in nearby areas. While imaging I was hearing sirens and voices around but did not pay much attention. Next morning I came to know that my neighbors just few hundred feet were flooded and had to evacuate. Alex Post Extras:       FrankenCub member Reged: 08/26/11 Loc: Whitney Point, NY Re: Sandy [Re: avarakin]       #5491163 - 10/27/12 02:05 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   SO what are ya sayin, when you open the roof you also open the clouds ??? lol I can subscribe to that. Recently bought a sexy C8, two weeks ago bought an iPad 2 so I could use Sky Safari. Two days ago I bought Sky Safari Pro, today my 7 day forecast shows 7 days of rain !! Global warming my butt .... Post Extras:       Mirzam Post Laureate Reged: 04/01/08 Loc: Lovettsville, VA Re: Sandy [Re: FrankenCub]       #5491323 - 10/27/12 08:32 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I'm looking at next weekend as possibly having some light-pollution free viewing. Moonrise on Sunday night is around 10:00 EST. JimC Post Extras:       GeneT Ely Kid Reged: 11/07/08 Loc: South Texas Re: Sandy [Re: avarakin]       #5492019 - 10/27/12 06:04 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Be safe everyone. This could be a nightmare situation. Post Extras:       Glen A W sage Reged: 07/04/08 Loc: WEST VIRGINIA USA Re: Sandy [Re: GeneT]       #5492031 - 10/27/12 06:13 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   My observatory got blown down last year in a tornado. I though about putting it back up, but I did not. This year, we had the direcho! I am fairly certain I'd have been damaged again. Until I move into a more sheltered area - right now I am in a big clear valley - I have to do without a permanent installation! Good luck everyone! If you are in a target area, I'd at least think about bringing the OTAs inside. GW Edited by Glen A W (10/27/12 06:14 PM) Post Extras:       bluestar Carpal Tunnel Reged: 11/06/05 Loc: Maryland Eastern Shore Re: Sandy [Re: Glen A W]       #5492097 - 10/27/12 07:01 PM Attachment (45 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I've been having some problems with rainwater seeping behind the vinyl siding and today was a good prompter to get that problem solved toot sweet with some garage door flashing installed before Sandy comes through. I'm here on Delmarva, supposedly right in the hurricane/storms path. Roof hurricane hooks are engaged...it's gonna be an interesting couple days. BTW...in the pic...at the very point of the arrow might as well be a sign saying "BlueStar Observatory...You are HERE". Post Extras:       Bob Moore Pooh-Bah Reged: 04/07/06 Loc: New York Re: Sandy [Re: bluestar]       #5494788 - 10/29/12 02:56 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I am sitting here in our new observatory, temp in the done 53.2 humidity 89% in the warm room 71.4 & 49.7%. the wind outside is steady at 32 mph with gusts up to 63 mph. and we have NO water getting into the domwe at all not even wind driven mist as far as I can tell. Here is a link to the project " http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0... " Post Extras:       Starman27 Post Laureate Reged: 01/29/06 Loc: Illinois, Iowa Re: Sandy [Re: Bob Moore]       #5495008 - 10/29/12 05:16 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Take care all who are in the path of Sandy. Post Extras:       Bob Moore Pooh-Bah Reged: 04/07/06 Loc: New York Re: Sandy [Re: Starman27]       #5495077 - 10/29/12 05:56 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Barometer down in the last hour from 28.23 to 28.10 winds are steady at 41 gusting to 70.4 and we are high and dry Post Extras:       Raginar Carpal Tunnel Reged: 10/19/10 Loc: Rapid CIty, SD Re: Sandy [Re: Bob Moore]       #5495095 - 10/29/12 06:12 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Glad everyone seems to be doing OK! Post Extras:       FrankenCub member Reged: 08/26/11 Loc: Whitney Point, NY Re: Sandy [Re: Bob Moore]       #5495345 - 10/29/12 09:32 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Good idea to take advantage of the weather Bob, make something good from this hurricane. That is one Outstanding observatory by the way !! Getting pretty good wind and gusts with driving rain here, even being as far away from the coast as I am. Post Extras:       Glen A W sage Reged: 07/04/08 Loc: WEST VIRGINIA USA Re: Sandy [Re: FrankenCub]       #5495365 - 10/29/12 09:41 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Blizzard with wet snow here in WVa. GW Post Extras:       avarakin Carpal Tunnel Reged: 07/13/09 Loc: Parsippany NJ, USA Re: Sandy [Re: Glen A W]       #5495425 - 10/29/12 10:18 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Not so good here. Just received email from the town: State of Emergency within the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills. Effective immediately no vehicles are permitted to drive on any roadway throughout the Township of Parsippany until further notice as a result of the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy. A major portion of the township has no power. Traffic signals throughout the township have ceased to function. Street lights along roadways are no longer operational. We have live power lines across streets, utility poles and trees across roads as well as some that have fallen into homes and businesses. My losses so far are minor: one ridge cap out of two on observatory roof was blown away. Not a big deal - it needed some work anyways. Also a fir went down. Thankfully it just fallen onto the middle of lawn without making any damage. According to forecast wind speeds should start reducing soon. Alex Post Extras:       David Pavlich Transmographied Reged: 05/18/05 Loc: Mandeville, LA USA Re: Sandy [Re: avarakin]       #5495439 - 10/29/12 10:32 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Good luck everyone! My obs has survived three hurricanes so far and it's just a home made 8X8 rolloff. David Post Extras:       David81 sage Reged: 05/17/10 Loc: NE Ohio Re: Sandy [Re: David Pavlich]       #5495909 - 10/30/12 09:18 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   As of this morning, my nearly finished ROR obs still has a roof on it . I just finished the metal roofing on Thursday and finished the 300' trench for electric just before the rain started on Friday. Thankfully, the only water infiltration seems to be the main door which is on the north side of the building with little to no shelter. I see a storm door in my future. Normally nothing would be coming in, but with the powerful wind and driving rain, it just can't keep it all out. Post Extras:       hm insulators Post Laureate Reged: 01/22/07 Re: Sandy [Re: David81]       #5496179 - 10/30/12 01:21 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Hope everybody is safe! Post Extras:       Bob Griffiths Getting Grouchy Reged: 10/10/05 Loc: Frederick Maryland Re: Sandy [Re: hm insulators]       #5497385 - 10/31/12 07:45 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Power came back on during the night.... (34 hours after it went out... Have my internet back BUT the land line telephones are still non functional.. Neighbors tree is laying on the roof of one of my garages ..but not a lot of damage..(at least that I can see .. Observatory held up like a champ..not a drop of water got inside.. Still have some water in the basement.but now that the sump pump is back in operation we should have that problem taken care of this morning... Bob G. Post Extras:       csa/montana Den Mama Reged: 05/14/05 Loc: montana Re: Sandy [Re: Bob Griffiths]       #5497573 - 10/31/12 10:51 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Glad everyone here suffered little or no damage! Something of this calibur certainly makes us stop & be appreciative of what we have. Post Extras:       Lenbo member Reged: 04/08/09 Loc: Cochranville, Pa. Re: Sandy [Re: csa/montana]       #5498269 - 10/31/12 06:59 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   The eye of the storm passed a little south of us here in SE Pa. Lots of rain (8 inches)and some pretty intense wind. A few trees down around us but ours were OK. Lost a couple last year in a storm. I have some precut strips of plywood and I screw them to the roof and top plateboards to reinforce the normal tie downs. Covered up the computer, monitor, mount and scopes with plastic just in case. Brought the cameras inside. I screwed a strip of plywood across the top of the double doors to keep blowing rain out. Worked pretty good. The pad was wet just inside the door but that was it. Really weird thing is we never lost power. Couldn't believe it but I'm not complaining. We often lose power during thunderstorms. Hope everyone got though safely. Len Post Extras:       Bob Moore Pooh-Bah Reged: 04/07/06 Loc: New York Re: Sandy [Re: Lenbo]       #5498350 - 10/31/12 07:49 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   all fine here. we just got power back. The new observatory is 100% fine Post Extras:       Special Ed Postmaster Reged: 05/18/03 Loc: Greenbrier Co., WV 38N, 80W Re: Sandy [Re: Bob Moore]       #5498526 - 10/31/12 09:51 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Had a fair amount of snow blow in under the ROR--I have to work on a fix for that_but everything had covers on so no problems. We have 12" of snow so I cleared the roof off so I can open it next clear night. Power never went off (major miracle) but many others not so lucky. Things are still bad in many parts of WV. Post Extras:       Mr_T Pooh-Bah Reged: 04/06/08 Loc: NJ Re: Sandy [Re: Special Ed]       #5519097 - 11/14/12 06:09 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Well My Obs survived actually 2 of them That I built using the the Backyard Obs plans my own and the clubs that we just built. The Winds reached to 80miles and blew the roof of one of the local buildings and hundreds of trees fell after a week we got our power back thanks to the many hundreds of power Guys working there Butts off. Scary how much we depend on Power and Gasoline Les Post Extras:       Gargoyle sage Reged: 03/13/08 Loc: Long Island, New York Re: Sandy [Re: avarakin]       #5529856 - 11/20/12 11:14 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Just want to say that my BYO built ROR came through Sandy without a scratch or a leak. I just got off of National Guard Duty here and had my first opportunity to check for damage. We had substantial tree damage all around our area which would be indicative of the wind force. That observatory is built like a tank. Jerry Post Extras:       Pages: 1 | 2 | (show all) Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Extra information 9 registered and 3 anonymous users are browsing this forum. 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