Posted on 10/29/2012 7:51:38 PM PDT by Kartographer
Sandy knocked out power to at least 3.1 million people, and New York's main utility said large sections of Manhattan had been plunged into darkness by the storm. Water pressed into the island from three sides. Just before its centre reached land, the storm was stripped of hurricane status, but the distinction was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature. It still packed hurricane-force wind, and forecasters were careful to say it remained every bit as dangerous to the 50 million people in its path. As the storm closed in, it smacked the boarded-up big cities of the Northeast corridor — Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston — with stinging rain and gusts of more than 85 mph. It also converged with a cold-weather system that turned it into a superstorm, a monstrous hybrid consisting not only of rain and high wind but snow. Sandy made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, which was already mostly under water and saw a piece of its world-famous Boardwalk washed away earlier in the day.
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I’ve never seen anything quite like Sandy. I guess ‘Super Storm’ may be the best description. Phenomenal even. Prayers up for the safety of those in the Northeast/Eastern seaboard.
Look and find one time I said it was. But it isn’t just some made up fantasy or a plot be ‘Bama’ of just a spring breeze. As far as fighting for food, well that is most unlikely, but the storm is still roaring wait a see what the next few days bring. There was thugs tweeting today about organized looting and now there’s this:
http://news.yahoo.com/nations-oldest-nuclear-plant-alert-024720174.html
Stay safe FRiend. I’m a midwesterner that has total sympathy and prayers for everyone in the path of Sandy.
A tornado knocked down a huge 50 year old Maple on my parent’s house a couple of years ago. Scary stuff.
I dread the damage that will be revealed in the morning. This is one horrifying storm. Hope you can get some sleep!
The water damage will be great.
Katrina had 1,833 fatality’s.
I am not making light of Sandy.
I never thought you were. I've just never seen anything like this one...and i've been in and near a few Texas hurricanes. ;o)
So glad my kid is ok ...she got whisked up to Connecticut by her company and is in a better place.
God be with the people of NYC as they weather this horrific night.
Prayers for all.
Many of Katrina’s death came after the storm passed and the levees collapsed. The storm hasn’t passed yet.
It has pretty much collapsed at this point.
Post tropical storm.
"yes, just got off the phone with her. 3rd time today. she's fine. lots of wind and water, but her apt is on fairly high ground. i'll let you know what i hear in the morning. it's a mess for sure. NYC is a very resilient bunch tho :)"
Looks to me like it has plenty of life left in it:
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/flash-wv.html
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=dox&product=NCR&overlay=11101111&loop=no
I’ve heard from relatives west of Philadelphia and as far north as Vermont, both seeing a lot of wind, but not so much rain. My sister, west of Philadelphia said that there is a lot of power outages and transformers popping all over the place, but just not that much rain.
Wow. DC to Pittsburg looks frozen.
Naw, Its just cold light rain.
The jetstream in Wi is like 38 deg
It is good to hear from them even if the news might not be the best. You know they’re still there. ;o)
A few tree limbs down in the street. I feel that the 2010 tornado thinned the herd already of weak branches.
Con Ed reports 250,000 people in Manhattan are without power (a transformer blew up) and 68,700 customers in the other boroughs. They have no idea when power will be restored. The winds are still knocking over trees, so power outages are expected to go up throughout the night.
A major hospital in Manhattan (NYU Langone Medical Center) had its generator blow, so 200+ patients had to be evacuated to another hospital.
A new record was set in Battery Park with a 13.88 foot storm surge, broke the old 10.1 foot record. You should see the photos of seawater pouring into subway tunnels or the cars floating down the street in lower Manhattan!
It is still raining and blowing outside, but thank G-d our street lights are still on.
The E had no reason to step one foot outside today, having laid in supplies aplenty. If it's still rotten tomorrow, ditto. Plenty of work to be done about the house indoors.
I am just grateful to G-d that nothing bad happened to my neighborhood, and may I wake up to the same. Five unfortunates can't say the same in New York state, having been crushed by trees or had other Sandy-related catastrophes occur to them. May they rest in peace.
Global warming must indeed be true. Sea levels are rising in NYC.
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