Hurricane Sandy

fozzybear · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:03

NY police and fire feeds here.

One · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:05

Bellevue hospital has had its generators flooded. Uh oh!

Doohickey · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:08

All the focus on NYC... What happened to New Jersey, Atlantic City etc? Apart from CNN Aquaman we haven't seen much...

Edit: there he is, he hasn't drowned yet.

One · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:09

This is a pretty cool link

http://hint.fm/wind/index.html

6thElement · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:10

That's right downtown near 14th St I imagine from looking at the street marking.

edit:slow reply to the 1st ave photo.

One · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:11

Here's a live news feed
http://www.ustream.tv/cbsnews

Doohickey · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:14

Piers Morgan about to be replaced by shouty shouty Richard Quest according to the planner...

Mickie · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:18

because its the east side everyone should care? we get flooded just as bad

One · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:18

Just flooding and trees falling from the sounds of it. I'm going to bed. Yawn. From the hype I was expecting the empire state building to snap.

Castiel · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:31

desires said:
Just flooding and trees falling from the sounds of it. I'm going to bed. Yawn. From the hype I was expecting the empire state building to snap.

It was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone just before landfall from what I was told...

PsychoPigeon · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:31

Atlantic City... someone make sure Nucky is ok!!

new york city

fozzybear · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:32

Haha, Ali Velshi almost getting blown over on CNN.

6thElement · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:35

PsychoPigeon said:
new york city

Incorrect, that's Hoboken Path train station in NJ

Mickie · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:39

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63122000/jpg/_63122812_63122811.jpg

block of flats very close to coming down in nyc

ToxicTBag · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:40

They need to get to higher ground hey they should try the public library, do not stop to help stranded strangers and watch there backs for oil tankers ... oh wait

Well fingers crossed it does not seem as bad as was predicted or maybe I am just so chuffed I got my windows 8 updates done now Microsoft and Virginia can do one g'night

Kutter · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:46

lunarwolf said:
do you know Aesop's fable of the Boy who cried wolf?

sure it's a storm, people should take precautions. but this is not the first storm to hit the US east coast. this is completely being blown out of proportion by media to almost hysterical level. the picture in OP just illustrates this

stop drinking the kool aid. it makes for entertaining and sensational news, but let's keep it real.

what were you saying again?

Castiel · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:51

doofski said:
what were you saying again?

What's it like where you are? Friends of mine in NJ are saying its pretty grim where they are (outside Atlantic City somewhere) with no power and quite a lot of flooding.....

lunarwolf · 30 Oct 2012 at 03:05

doofski said:
what were you saying again?

lunarwolf said:
much ado about nothing.

i was living in boston during the so called "perfect storm" back in early 90s and it wasn't bad on land. maybe different story for ppl out at sea.

Sandy was classed as a cat 1 hurricane and has been downgraded to a storm. max wind speed is 85mph now and will probably decrease before it hits land. hardly the end of the world.

sure some beach front property may see a surge, some old tree branches may fall to the ground; but they are going nuts in US and overhyping this. election is around the corner, and gov wants to look like it's more prepared than katrina. big difference is that New Orleans is below sea level - NY is not

lunarwolf said:
spare me your diatribe. This storm was downgraded on saturday already http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/27/hurricane-sandy-regains-strength?newsfeed=true. then storm regained hurricane cat 1 strength and it is expected to be downgraded again.

FYI Hurricane Irene in 2011 was a Cat 3 then downgraded to Cat 1 when it hit US eastern shore and the hype wasnt as big as this one.

I actually lived through a stronger hurricane in Long Island sound NY back in 1985 - Gloria which was a Cat 3 and even stepped outside in the eye of the storm. sure there was a surge, branches fell, some damage was done to property, some beach houses too close to the waterfront even were gobled up, even a few recorded deaths, but it wasn't the end of the world.

the storm will pass, damage will be done and it will be forgotten before Christmas shopping season begins

seems you have selective memory

saying that this was completely overhyped. which it is. superstorm, monster storm, biggest storm in history lol even Irene wasnt this hyped up.

Mississippi river gets bigger floods :rolleyes:

. hardly the disaster/tragedy we saw in Japan not so long ago

Curio · 30 Oct 2012 at 03:16

lunarwolf said:
seems you have selective memory

saying that this was completely overhyped. which it is. superstorm, monster storm, biggest storm in history lol even Irene wasnt this hyped up.

Mississippi river gets bigger floods . hardly the disaster/tragedy we saw in Japan not so long ago

Just stop posting before you embarrass yourself any more. This isn't a disaster competition.......nobody said it would be anything like the Japan earthquake......and this IS a historic storm which is still a long way from being over.

But yeah, just keep posting rolleyes and "lols" to make yourself feel better...while people are losing everything, including their lives in this "over-hyped" storm.

Kutter · 30 Oct 2012 at 03:33

Castiel said:
What's it like where you are? Friends of mine in NJ are saying its pretty grim where they are (outside Atlantic City somewhere) with no power and quite a lot of flooding.....

its not too bad here but I haven't been out since I came home from work at 630 this morning
we had some heavy rain and high winds but we didn't lose power. it looks worse on the coast though.