The MRH website is hosted at a facility in Manhattan, which, as has been widely broadcast, just got hit by "Superstorm Sandy." As a result, there are a lot of fiber cuts, a lot of flooded basements, and a very uncertain power situation.

As we understand it, the first outage on Monday night/Tuesday morning was caused by a the failure of a fuel tank pump when the basement it was in was flooded.

The outage today was caused by two other facilities experiencing problems that effectively cut our hosting facility off.

There may be additional outages - all of these facilities are currently on generator power as ConEd both waits for the water to recede and then dries out their salt-water soaked substations and transformers.

The good news is that the facilities hosting the actual magazine itself have not gone down - you can still use these links to access or download MRH itself:

Read the October issue ONLINE
(read online)

Our PDF download host is also stil up and can be accessed with these links:
Direct access to the October issue PDF version - primary
(PDF download - primary host)

Direct access to the October issue PDF version - mirror backup
(PDF download - backup mirror host)

We also recommend "Liking" our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/mrhmag for upated information when the website goes down as well as other information and links we may post there.

In the meantime we remain grateful for your support and ask that you keep those people affected by Sandy on the East Coast of the United States, Canada, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba in your thoughts.

Thank you.

Hi guys,

I'm putting out a call for some assistance for my brother in-law who is currently stuck about 25 miles out of New Jersey. He has been in New York on business and was in New Jersey in a hotel and has since been evacuated from there. He is away from his wife and two girls and like so many is displaced and has little to no food, and is a foreigner.

I'm hoping that all our East Coast members weather this Frankin-storm. Keep save and hope to see you guys posting after this is over.

Ken Rickman, I'm thinking of you, plus you Michael in Florida and others that are along the East Coast.

Be Safe.

Bernd

I was just reading (and posting) to Douglas's thread ( http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/9678 ) on puff trees (which I used on my former layout) and thought:  Why not have a puff tree contest?  People could post pictures of their puff trees and an objective judging panel could choose the best looking entries and maybe be awarded a prize (like 6 months free of MRH magazine?