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Sandy loses 'hurricane' title, keeps powerful punch
FoxNews.com ^ | 10/29/12 | FoxNews.com

Posted on 10/29/2012 7:37:24 PM PDT by Ron C.

Sandy's no longer a hurricane, but it still packs a wallop.

The massive storm was downgraded just after it barged ashore in southern New Jersey, bringing 90-mph winds and a roiling wall of seawater as it moved inland and north toward New York City. It sent 90-mph gusts through the Wall Street canyons and water surging to a record 13 feet in Lower Manhattan, surging into two major commuter tunnels and into subway stations and tracks. It was unclear how much water had come in.

The MTA also cut power to some subway tunnels in lower Manhattan, after water came into the stations and tracks. The MTA couldn't say at this point how much damage had been done, and how much time it would take to restore everything to normal.

Consolidated Edison was prompted to cut power to part of the area to avoid storm damage. Manhattan's FDR Drive was under water south of 20th Street. The storm was expected to lash the nation's biggest city -- and surrounding metro area - until midnight.

Fatal car crashes in Maryland and West Virginia, and the death of a man in Queens, N.Y., when a tree fell on his home were blamed on the storm. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office confirmed at least four other storm-related deaths in the state. The hurricane-turned-post-tropical cyclone, still a powerful, 900-mile-wide hybrid of several weather systems, sent 30-foot-high swells toward the Garden State, and as its eye passed over the shoreline, a surge as high as 10 feet tore into dunes and washed across boardwalks.

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To: weston
"....won’t have to see or hear nasty Obama ads for a while."

Hey - that's a big plus all by itself!

21 posted on 10/29/2012 8:20:41 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: mylife

Don’t know if you’ve heard about PEPCO or not but they are the worst electric providers in the country. Their power outages are infamous and the reason why I spent a small fortune putting in a generator and transfer switch.

Sandy never got above 45mph and our lights never went off...so far. Much ado nothing.


22 posted on 10/29/2012 8:25:33 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (St.Peter:"Upon this rock, I will build my church" 0:"If you've got a church, you didn't build that!")
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To: mylife

A little rain? A stiff breeze? Some puddles on the streets? Agh agh agh, the world just ended in Mary Mary Quite Contraryland.


23 posted on 10/29/2012 8:25:42 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (cat dog, cat dog, alone in the world is a little cat dog)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

At least dysPEPCO doesn’t have power lines strung all over on telephone poles like they do in most of Shoot Cago.


24 posted on 10/29/2012 8:27:20 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (cat dog, cat dog, alone in the world is a little cat dog)
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To: weston

You haven’t seen Obama’s “secret weapon.” A giant a$$ megaphone and a rough terrain TelelPromter. They’re not getting off that easy.


25 posted on 10/29/2012 8:27:38 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

We have the same trouble here because the city does not keep the trees trimmed back from the powerlines.
I’ve seen power drop in a 15mph wind.


26 posted on 10/29/2012 8:28:51 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

LOL!


27 posted on 10/29/2012 8:29:37 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Mark for tomorrow when the sun comes up.


28 posted on 10/29/2012 8:33:05 PM PDT by Frapster (There you go again....)
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To: Frapster

I’m holed up in Hagerstown, 2 counties northwest of Monkey. The power blunk for a second, once. Agh agh agh, they shut down Valley Mall for weather in which Chicago area malls would be defiantly blazing with light. McDonalds the only eatery still open and almost no customers.


29 posted on 10/29/2012 8:37:42 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (cat dog, cat dog, alone in the world is a little cat dog)
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To: Ron C.

Savage said on his program tonight, “It was the cleanest NYC has been in fiftey years.”


30 posted on 10/29/2012 8:38:17 PM PDT by Leep (Are you smarter than a 7th grade math student and or Barack 0bama?)
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To: Leep
Savage said on his program tonight, “It was the cleanest NYC has been in fiftey years.”

Might be Travis Bickle's "Real Rain."

31 posted on 10/29/2012 8:39:19 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Ron C.

Yeah, I’m thinking this is going to make Carter/Reagan 80 look like a close contest.

Democrat turnout is HEAVILY depressed and Indy Romney turnout is way up. America’s survival is at stake.


32 posted on 10/29/2012 8:39:37 PM PDT by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: Leep

fifty


33 posted on 10/29/2012 8:39:37 PM PDT by Leep (Are you smarter than a 7th grade math student and or Barack 0bama?)
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To: rovenstinez

Never trust first reports after a storm.


34 posted on 10/29/2012 8:43:28 PM PDT by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Au Contraire, PEPCO is all above ground on telephone polls. The reason they have so many outages is because they didn’t cut down branches from large trees their lines go through.

LOL our electricity just went out as we spoke!!!!. Had to go start er up.


35 posted on 10/29/2012 8:51:41 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (St.Peter:"Upon this rock, I will build my church" 0:"If you've got a church, you didn't build that!")
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To: Clint N. Suhks

YMMV, in Hagerstown they look to be buried cables. Maybe the Monkeys won’t ever issue the permits to do that.


36 posted on 10/29/2012 8:53:49 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (cat dog, cat dog, alone in the world is a little cat dog)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

DC is all underground so when we had Snowmageddon, pre generator, we had to hold up there.

You lobby your state congesscritter and get underground electric, where you are I’m sure it’s a lot cheaper than around here. It’s so worth it.


37 posted on 10/29/2012 8:58:44 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (St.Peter:"Upon this rock, I will build my church" 0:"If you've got a church, you didn't build that!")
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To: Ron C.

Unclear how much water came in?

Enough.


38 posted on 10/29/2012 9:04:43 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (cat dog, cat dog, alone in the world is a little cat dog)
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To: mplsconservative
you know I have the webcam looking out at Times Square and people are milling about....its wet outthere but no standing water....

this storm will be much like Katrina in that some areas will be hit very very hard and just a mile or two away, very little....except losing electricty or safe water will affect everyone...

39 posted on 10/29/2012 9:06:26 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

Losing the subways and rail transportation will also affect everyone.

I have a really bad feeling about this from reading the hurricane thread. 10 dead so far. Who knows what it will be tomorrow?


40 posted on 10/29/2012 9:19:00 PM PDT by mplsconservative (Barack Hussein 0bama has American blood on HIS hands!)
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