IMPORTANT: OFFICIAL HURRICANE THREAD

[Anti Federalist]

Fines are tripled, of course.

Gold and silver are confiscated.

I was figuring you just got dragged out of your hovel and shot, but those are both good too.

 

[Anti Federalist]

D'Oh!

If that's the RR overpass I'm thinking it is, (Rt 22), that ALWAYS floods there.

Hackensack, NJ:

*facepalm*

 

[CaptUSA]

JCP&L has about 35,000 out. The number is growing.

Went from 35K to 45K in the last 10 minutes. I expect it to keep going...

 

[Anti Federalist]

Goodbye, Cruel World

Posted by Becky Akers on October 28, 2012 08:04 PM

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/124546.html

We’re all gonna die in the “Frankenstorm.” Or so New York City’s rulers want us to fear. Nanny-sorry, Mayor Mike Bloomberg has warned us of the dire weather over and over: maybe he not only deems us stupid but hard of hearing, too. He’s also dispensed such insultingly obvious advice as “remain calm” — even as he tries his hardest to scare the pants off us.

Meanwhile, without so much as a single drop of rain yet fallen, Nanny has commanded serfs unlucky enough to live in what bureaucrats designate as “low areas” to evacuate. And he closed the subways at 7 PM tonight. Consider our wimpy, cowardly age: The subways in their century-plus of existence have remained open through blizzards, floods, hurricanes, thunderstorms, torrential rains. New York’s previous führers, however pusillanimous, never shut them down — until a year ago last August, when Nanny did, for the Hurricane That Wasn’t (at least in most of New York City). Now, for the second time in 14 months, Nanny has proclaimed subterranean track and trains vulnerable to a storm above-ground. Halting the subways immobilizes the city, whose rulers have warred so tirelessly against drivers that millions long ago surrendered to unreliable and crowded public transit.

Providing I survive this newest threat to western civilization, I’ll be most interested to learn how much overtime Nanny’s hysteria wrangled for the city’s employees. And, of course, how much more power for himself.

 

[Acala]

Hackensack, NJ:

*facepalm*

Must be visiting from Arizona. We are experts in car surfing.

 

[Acala]

Goodbye, Cruel World

Posted by Becky Akers on October 28, 2012 08:04 PM

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/124546.html

We’re all gonna die in the “Frankenstorm.” Or so New York City’s rulers want us to fear. Nanny-sorry, Mayor Mike Bloomberg has warned us of the dire weather over and over: maybe he not only deems us stupid but hard of hearing, too. He’s also dispensed such insultingly obvious advice as “remain calm” — even as he tries his hardest to scare the pants off us.

Meanwhile, without so much as a single drop of rain yet fallen, Nanny has commanded serfs unlucky enough to live in what bureaucrats designate as “low areas” to evacuate. And he closed the subways at 7 PM tonight. Consider our wimpy, cowardly age: The subways in their century-plus of existence have remained open through blizzards, floods, hurricanes, thunderstorms, torrential rains. New York’s previous führers, however pusillanimous, never shut them down — until a year ago last August, when Nanny did, for the Hurricane That Wasn’t (at least in most of New York City). Now, for the second time in 14 months, Nanny has proclaimed subterranean track and trains vulnerable to a storm above-ground. Halting the subways immobilizes the city, whose rulers have warred so tirelessly against drivers that millions long ago surrendered to unreliable and crowded public transit.

Providing I survive this newest threat to western civilization, I’ll be most interested to learn how much overtime Nanny’s hysteria wrangled for the city’s employees. And, of course, how much more power for himself.

The nature of top-down emergency management. Endlessly stupid, inefficient, expensive, and destructive of individual responsibility and liberty.

 

[VoluntaryAmerican]

Irony @ Ocean City, NJ:

"Praise God from whom all blessings flow." Probably not a good idea to have that as a caption as a hurricane flows in...

Went to Highschool in OC. Some streets flood there every time there is a decent rain, it ought to be interesting to see how this affects them.

 

[kathy88]

 

[Bruno]

HOLD!!!

 

[Carlybee]

Thoughts and prayers to all affected. Having been through Ike, I can safely say..you ain't seen nothing yet. Stay safe!

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

Yah, I have even seen some media reports about how this will be "worse than Katrina".

Umm, no.

I don't see how. I will say if a lot of people are evacuating, it could turn into quite the giant lootfest.

Just saw people trying to swim in FDR Drive in the 70's.

None of you want to swim in that water unless you have a real serious reason. That will be some of the nastiest liquid on earth by the time people start cleaning up.

 

[Nirvikalpa]

The Garden State Parkway will close in both directions south of Woodbridge (Interchange 129) @ 4PM today.

 

[KCIndy]

LOL!! Okay, I call shenanigans!!!

 

[CaptUSA]

Went from 35K to 45K in the last 10 minutes. I expect it to keep going...

Up to 70K now without power in JCP&L. biggest impacts are still not being felt yet...

 

[brandon]

The wind is just starting to pick up here. Maybe this thing will actually live up to the hype after all.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

I can't believe the local NYC CBS2, banner feed... "NY Fed is open today all other financial markets closed" even though Maiden Lane is right there in lower tip near Battery Park area.

I presume since the FIAT confetti money counterfeiting never rests... it must be 1) very profitable and 2) maintains power to the inner elites.

 

[Acala]

I can't believe the local NYC CBS2, banner feed... "NY Fed is open today all other financial markets closed" even though Maiden Lane is right there in lower tip near Battery Park area.

I presume since the FIAT confetti money counterfeiting never rests... it must be 1) very profitable and 2) maintains power to the inner elites.

"Hey Germany, all your gold washed away. Sorry."

 

[brandon]

where the hell is weather bill at?

 

[CaptUSA]

Up to 70K now without power in JCP&L. biggest impacts are still not being felt yet...

115K out of power and still counting. 5:00 + estimate for landfall.

 

[S.Shorland]

Crane hanging broken on 57th street manhattan