[cuban leaf]

I am noticing that any serious damage done by this storm is limited to a pretty tight area. NYC had some flooding, a bunch of row houses were burned down by the same fire in Queens, and now this levee. Anything else I’m missing?

Was this, at a national scale, a non-event? Seems like the Colorado fires were a MUCH worse disaster.

[Kartographer]

I actually don’t know if I should laugh or cry.

[Moose4]

Not really. There’s damage and power outages from New England to North Carolina and west into West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and it’s not over yet...there’s still the potential for inland flooding in Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and New England on up into Canada as Sandy heads west and then north.

It served up a worst-case scenario for the NYC metro area in that Sandy hit near high tide on a night with a full moon to make the tides even worse. The tide gauge at Battery Park broke the 52-year-old record from Hurricane Donna by almost *four feet*. A lot of the NYC metro area is without power, the subways are flooded, the underground infrastructure is flooded.

This is not a Katrina or an Andrew in terms of massive loss of life or leveling everything in sight. But it is a very large storm that is going to cause a lot of financial damage due to the flooding in densely-populated urban areas, and a lot of disruption.

}:-)4

[Strategerist]

Thousands of houses on the Jersey shore are going to be a total loss. There’s enormous amounts of damage where the media haven’t been - like Staten Island. Fire Island has likely been savaged.

Colorado fire damage will end up being trivial in comparison. The population density of this area is beyond belief. The media right now will be focusing on the most photogenic areas.

[Wallace T.]

Any disaster in non-flyover country (the Northeast and Southern California) is overhyped by the MSM. Hundreds of square miles of Colorado might burn down, but a few dozen homes in Queens will get more coverage. A hurricane can flatten thousands of homes in Florida, and a tornado do similar damage in Missouri, but a few roofs lost in New Jersey will get more coverage. The MSM’s focus on their home regions is as predictable as their liberal bias.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“Anything else I’m missing?”

Yeah I guess it's nothing.

Water in the streets around Wall Street; probably thousands of homes damaged severely, a huge amount of the US population at an economic standstill.

It's nothing really; I guess....

[dirtboy]

Anything else I’m missing?

Well, there is this place called the Jersey Shore with a lot of valuable real estate that got flooded. Likewise with a place called Long Island. But we all know how cheap real estate is in NYC, so it can't cost that much when a large part of the city gets flooded. Dittoes when the subways flood and five million people now can't get to work for at least a week.

[arasina]

What I found interesting is that on FNC they had a graphic with the words “16 Americans” killed as a result of Hurricane Sandy. Americans in America, whodathunkit.

[wideawake]

Wow. You are deeply clueless. Millions of people have been evacuated. Several communities likely wiped out. Thousands of homes destroyed. Tens of billions of property damages. Something like 5-7% of the US population missing a week of work (in other words billions of GDP lost).

No one around here belittled the devastating Colorado fires.

Bunch of nasty morons on this thread.

[cherry]

I’ve got contacts in upstate ny...Binghamton area...which had horrible flooding two years ago...and contacts in central pa and Philly...my nephew in Philly is fine, no power loss, did lose cable last night, but he’s on his way to work....

[verum ago]

I am noticing that any serious damage done by this storm is limited to a pretty tight area. NYC had some flooding, a bunch of row houses were burned down by the same fire in Queens, and now this levee. Anything else I’m missing?

Yes, you're missing the great majority of the damage. NYC and environs is photogenic and sells copy, but the damage is widespread. And that's the storm surge and initial storm damage.

What's left of Sandy is still in the process of dumping absolute sh*tloads of rain on land; there's going to be widespread damage from streams flooding next plus the usual power outages, fallen trees etc from what's still a strong storm.

Was this, at a national scale, a non-event? Seems like the Colorado fires were a MUCH worse disaster.

There are far more people in the affected area than the Colorado fires, and there's going to be the additional effect of supply shortages and probably rioting too (sometimes I hate humanity). To be perfectly clear- I'm not saying the Colorado fires weren't/aren't a big deal- but the scale of this storm is simply larger.

One of the problems we face is that the media hypes every large storm there is, so after all the false-alarms, well, it's like the Boy Who Cried Wolf. At the moment, it would appear that the Wolf actually showed up this time.

I hope it didn't; I'd rather be wrong about widespread destruction existing than right about it.

[gnarledmaw]

I have to admit Im a bit surprised by your post. Youve been here all this time and havent learned that the lives and personal belongings of those on the coasts are more valuable than yours? Dont deny it, Ive seen your posts. Youre one of those people who believes in responsibility! How DARE you recognize the ignorance of building a house on an ocean shore! Ill bet youre probably one of those bastards who thinks Californians shouldnt build houses hanging off of cliffs in earthquake prone territory too!

The fact that lemmings continue to pile around various urban centers created by accidents of history driving up the price of land makes the land cost more FRNs and by extention makes them more valuable than you.

We must all stop our lives, comiserate in their unpreparedness and dependence, and lobby our representatives for increased taxes to protect them. Until you learn that lesson you are hereby tossed from the Republican party.

ZZZZzzzotttt!!!

-insert childish picture of flying cat here-

(Total non-event. Dont get angry at the ignorant replies you are getting. Feel pity for them, they really are that clueless)

[Drill Thrawl]

Your forgetting about 100 miles or NJ coast line.

And 8 million without power.

Heavy flooing in PA. Severe damage in Long Island and Nantucket Sounds.

Yeah a pretty small area I'd say.

[ottbmare]

I am noticing that any serious damage done by this storm is limited to a pretty tight area. NYC had some flooding, a bunch of row houses were burned down by the same fire in Queens, and now this levee. Anything else I’m missing?

Yes, because all the reporting has been by and about those narcissistic journos in New York, you may have missed this: the Delmarva Peninsula has been devastated. People in New York City have been inconvenienced, but in eastern Maryland and Delaware, whole towns have been demolished, businesses destroyed, houses washed away or undermined,islands in the Chesapeake submerged. Salisbury, Maryland is under water, Ocean City has been badly damaged. There will be great hardship. And no, not all the places were built on the ocean, not by any means; the storm just swept across the peninsula.