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"It's been more than a week since super storm Sandy hit this area. You can still see and feel the damage. Possibly the biggest problem still is transportation. That's where electric vehicles are standing out."
Varun Bhatia- LEAF owner in NY
01:00:24-32 "I didn't realize I would be the only one driving for a couple of days and everybody else would be just in a tough position."
Varun Bhatia owns a Nissan LEAF. He actually had one shipped from Washington State so he could be among the first in New York to own the fully electric car. He bought the car because of the way it drives and feels on the road. But now he has a new appreciation for not needing gas.
Varun Bhatia- LEAF owner in NY
01:00:08-20 "I never thought we would have a fuel shortage because that didn't happen last year. We actually had a very big storm, more water last year. And I didn't realize New Jersey got so hit that they couldn't get fuel out of there."
New York and New Jersey got hit hard by super storm Sandy. Millions lost power. Offices, homes and subways flooded. Trees tore through structures. And even now with much of the power restored and debris removed, it's not easy to get gas. Lines like this are forming all across the area. Even at two in the morning, cars are backed up for miles.
Varun Bhatia- LEAF owner in NY
01:04:26-41 "I wish they had an option. I felt truly bad for them. It's not fair for somebody to be spending 4, 5, 6 or even a day, that many hours waiting for something as simple as fuel."
But fuel is essential for most New York and New Jersey drivers.
Philip Calderone- New Hyde Park Resident
01:12:32-40 right now i'm helping out a bunch of nurses and doctors in the building behind us, and so this way they can get to and from work.
Joanne Gubitosi (Goob-eh-toe-see)- from Suffix County, works as nurse in New Hyde Park- carpooling to hospital
01:14:52-15:10 "Now we're standing in line during out lunch break to fill the gas tank to bring it home, to put it in her car, so she can then take that 2 and a half gallons and wait in line for another line back in suffix county where she lives to hopefully fill up, so we can carpool again, so its crazy."
Bhatia put 300 miles on his LEAF in the three days after the storm. He offered to siphon gas out of a gas car he rarely uses for his friend who is a police officer. And he drove miles to rescue other friends who were stranded.
Varun Bhatia- LEAF owner in NY
01:02:07-21 "One of my friend's friends was stuck out way in long island, like far. It was about 25 miles from here and she wanted to go another 40 miles back, so I charged my car to full."
Varun Bhatia- LEAF owner in NY
01:02:33-38 "She was stuck at a friend's house and she had no way of getting back, and no one had the gas to get her back."
Varun Bhatia- LEAF owner in NY
01:03:31-39 "It made them all realize how dependent we are on gas. Because kids our age, event adults, they don't realize how dependent we are on gasoline."
In times of disaster Bhatia learned his LEAF made him more flexible and more mobile.
Varun Bhatia- LEAF owner in NY
01:02:51-03:03 "I had plan b and c for this car and I noticed the gas cars didn't have that. Like I could have went to a nearby dealer which have free electricity and if they didn't have electricity I could have went to anybody with a 120 outlet."
Varun Bhatia- LEAF owner in NY
01:04:47-52 "It made me realize electricity is definitely the future because we have options."
Originally posted by Cauliflower
Wonder why Maine hasn't declared an emergency?
Originally posted by Cauliflower
Wonder why Maine hasn't declared an emergency? Looks like Portland might get one of the highest snow totals from the coastal low. Over a foot already at the Portland jetport. The forecasters said this might be an historic storm, but 18 to 24 inch snowstorms are not that unusual for Maine so I guess that's why no alarm there?
The weather service warned that the storm would be accompanied by winds almost as powerful as those packed by a hurricane.
The winter storm gathered strength as two weather systems — a so-called clipper pattern sweeping across the Midwest and a band of rain from the South — began to converge over the Northeast.
Originally posted by wdkirk
Originally posted by Cauliflower
Wonder why Maine hasn't declared an emergency? Looks like Portland might get one of the highest snow totals from the coastal low. Over a foot already at the Portland jetport. The forecasters said this might be an historic storm, but 18 to 24 inch snowstorms are not that unusual for Maine so I guess that's why no alarm there?
No one cares about Maine....its like......Delaware.
All jokes aside, keep warm and stay calm.