IMPORTANT: OFFICIAL HURRICANE THREAD

[libertygrl]

http://classic.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/


Also, I want to point you to a thread I've started on "haarpstatus.com", please stop in and let me know your thoughts.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?393778-Haarpstatus.com-Sandy

Wow, that haarpstatus was pretty wild. Scary but wild. But who placed all those sensors around to detect HAARP??

I just turned to the Discovery channel & they had a show on called America's Most Secret Structures. They were discussing Military Weather Modification, hurricanes and HAARP. Just a coincidence, right???

 

[mad cow]

The National Data Buoy Center has nice informative sites for individual weather buoys.Click on the triangles in the columns to get a time chart of that data point.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44009
Mouth of Delaware Bay.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44025

Southeast of New York Harbor.

There are many others.All wind speeds are in knots.

http://www.militaryfactory.com/conversioncalculators/speed_knots_to_miles_per_hour.asp
Knots/MPH calculator

 

[Nirvikalpa]

http://obxcams.com/

 

[libertygrl]

Just an update of my area in S. Eastern NY. Compared to yesterday, many more people were out on the road today. I think many were last minute preppers. I started getting supplies and organizing things on Friday.

There were long car lines at several gas stations. Some stores had their windows boarded up. I've never seen that here before. The bread aisle at Stop & Shop was completely wiped out. Same thing for canned soups. The egg shelves were almost empty as well. It's beginning to get scary. Outside, the tide levels already look high. It's 3:00 est. Winds picking up even stronger now and the temperature feels like it's dropping. I'm starting to feel cold. The weird thing is my neighborhood is so quite. Too quite. People are home, but I've made several trips to stores prepping since Friday, and I haven't seen anyone bringing home bags of goods.... unless they're all preppers already??

I agree with the other posters. This doesn't look good. I'm really worried now. It'll be difficult without electricity, but I'll take that over my house being flooded or windows being shattered by the wind. Does anyone know how many mph would it take to crash in a window? Sigh.... still lots to do. My head is spinning in all directions. Looks like we now have a mandatory evacuation for tomorrow. Ugh.... this sucks. Good luck guys. I'll be checking in from time to time as along as I still have power.

 

[tod evans]

Does anyone know how many mph would it take to crash in a window?

Even late 18th century single pane sashes easily withstand 40+mph winds but very few residential sashes can withstand airborne projectiles moving as slowly as 5-10 mph.

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

Just an update of my area in S. Eastern NY. Compared to yesterday, many more people were out on the road today. I think many were last minute preppers. I started getting supplies and organizing things on Friday.

There were long car lines at several gas stations. Some stores had their windows boarded up. I've never seen that here before. The bread aisle at Stop & Shop was completely wiped out. Same thing for canned soups. The egg shelves were almost empty as well. It's beginning to get scary.

That is why I said preppers don't need to go to the store. In any disaster, those stores will empty fast. It will happen from buying or stealing, but they will become empty one way or another.

 

[CrissyNY]

Just an update of my area in S. Eastern NY. Compared to yesterday, many more people were out on the road today. I think many were last minute preppers. I started getting supplies and organizing things on Friday.

There were long car lines at several gas stations. Some stores had their windows boarded up. I've never seen that here before. The bread aisle at Stop & Shop was completely wiped out. Same thing for canned soups. The egg shelves were almost empty as well. It's beginning to get scary. Outside, the tide levels already look high. It's 3:00 est. Winds picking up even stronger now and the temperature feels like it's dropping. I'm starting to feel cold. The weird thing is my neighborhood is so quite. Too quite. People are home, but I've made several trips to stores prepping since Friday, and I haven't seen anyone bringing home bags of goods.... unless they're all preppers already??

I agree with the other posters. This doesn't look good. I'm really worried now. It'll be difficult without electricity, but I'll take that over my house being flooded or windows being shattered by the wind. Does anyone know how many mph would it take to crash in a window? Sigh.... still lots to do. My head is spinning in all directions. Looks like we now have a mandatory evacuation for tomorrow. Ugh.... this sucks. Good luck guys. I'll be checking in from time to time as along as I still have power.

Sounds very eerie; glad you are prepared though.

I am worried too, my dad is in south Nassau and he is getting everything off the ground in his warehouse. Last year during Irene there was 3 feet of water in there, and this is supposed to be worse.

I will be praying for him and for everyone out there!

 

[MozoVote]

http://www.pictureshack.us/images/34062_SuperSandy20121030.gif

Nice image series of Sandy's forecast track. What a huge storm... even Michigan and Wisconsin could see rain from this.

 

[libertygrl]

That is why I said preppers don't need to go to the store. In any disaster, those stores will empty fast. It will happen from buying or stealing, but they will become empty one way or another.

Yeah, I think we heard you the first time. Sorry, I don't mean to be snarky, but that's not really helpful right now for those of us struggling at the moment. Not everyone can afford to be prepping. I did start it at one time, but I just couldn't continue.

 

[brandon]

Anyone have any good ideas for some good hurricane comfort food that I can make tonight?

 

[libertygrl]

Sounds very eerie; glad you are prepared though.

I am worried too, my dad is in south Nassau and he is getting everything off the ground in his warehouse. Last year during Irene there was 3 feet of water in there, and this is supposed to be worse.

I will be praying for him and for everyone out there!

Thanks Chrissy NY. Same to you & your dad as well. Sounds like he's doing everything he can.

 

[MozoVote]

Getting closer. Wow, that storm is huge.

 

[kathy88]

Getting closer. Wow, that storm is huge.

DAMN

 

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

Wal-Mart and other big box retailers in my area are packed. Yesterday, the Wal-Mart nearest me in DE was so packed that people were parking out on the side of the highway and walking into their lot.

 

[MozoVote]

The recurvature towards the north is beginning.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

Wal-Mart and other big box retailers in my area are packed. Yesterday, the Wal-Mart nearest me in DE was so packed that people were parking out on the side of the highway and walking into their lot.

You need to shop at different times. Midnight, 6am... DEAD! Except we got stuck behind some guy that looked like he was buying for 2 months at one place. Main problem was places being sold out of stuff. Varied.

-t

 

[malkusm]

I'm in Brooklyn about half a block from "Zone A" which the mayor ordered an evacuation of. I'm in a first-floor apt, so kind of nervous about the potential storm surge....but riding it out here nonetheless. I estimate something like 6.5-8 feet of vertical water rise would need to happen to get to floor level of my apt.

Here are some "before" pics from my neighborhood, I plan on taking some "after" pics in the same locations if I am able to get out and do so.

 

[AuH20]

Nassau County already started their mandatory evacs on the South Shore. It's going to be a lootfest. Idiots.

 

[libertygrl]

I was just helping my dad clean out the gutters and a fire truck is going around saying mandatory evacuations at 6am tomorrow! Geez... I thought we had more time than that. I heard the storm gets worse Mon. night. I was going to leave in the afternoon but now I'm scrambling to get things all done tonight!

 

[Nirvikalpa]

Just want to also kindly remind everyone/make everyone aware of the fact many EMS agencies are receiving word to NOT go out on emergency calls if the wind speeds are over 40mph, unless it is a critical medical emergency (heart attack, stroke, etc).