IMPORTANT: OFFICIAL HURRICANE THREAD

[Bruno]

Just came back from a driving inspection and flooding in my area is imminent. Thinking of sending my Wife and kids to her Mom's.

Good plan, be on the safe side!

 

[ghengis86]

Pics of NY underwater here:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-29/postcards-underwater-new-york

 

[devil21]

Be safe out there everyone. Its windy and cold even down here in western NC.

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

I'm definitely glad it wasn't too bad. I think a lot of people around here are going to stop trusting the weather people after this. So much hype over Irene last year, which turned out to be pretty much nothing. Then exponentially more hype this year for Sandy. All the weather people were coming down hard on the skeptics, calling us fools and what not, but it's even less than Irene.

I do really feel bad for the people in Jersey or wherever that are flooded. I'm not trying to minimize their problems. I'm just pointing out that in my specific area they were way way off, two years in a row now. They predicted 10 inches of rain here and we probably only got like 1.5 so far and it's not even raining anymore.

Its almost impossible to forecast storm impacts for specific locations. We had a storm this year, where my county saw worse conditions than places closer to the storm.

The only fool is the person who is complacent and ignores people who have years of schooling and experience. Better to be safe than sorry.

Also, this is Manhattan:

Yeah, I'm sure those people are real pissed off about the hype.

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

 

[brandon]

wow that's insane.

 

[awake]

Hate say it this early but this is an environmental Pearl Harbor.

Here is the early propaganda...

 

[presence]

www.wunderground.com/wundermap/

has evacuation zones and live storm surge levels across the coast, the storm surge numbers seem to be a new feature.

Those pics from NY included a pic from avenue c and 13, with the person hip deep at the yield sign; that was in the evacuation zone.

 

[kathy88]

NYC is an absolute nightmare from the look of those pics. North Central PA about 40 MPH winds and driving rain. I still have lights though. Kids are disappointed so far. Lol.

 

[ghengis86]

Lonely?

Hoboken

Lights out for downtown Mahattan

Lower Mahattan

 

[Bruno]

Flooding lower Manhatten tunnels amd subway stations. Imagine that will take awhile to pump out and clean up.

 

[ghengis86]

Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel

Battery park is now flooded

 

[angelatc]

NYC is an absolute nightmare from the look of those pics. North Central PA about 40 MPH winds and driving rain. I still have lights though. Kids are disappointed so far. Lol.

Yeah, it's the kids that are disappointed. I hear you.

 

[torchbearer]

now i know how people from Cali feel when they see people from Maine freaking out over a Mag 3 earthquake.

 

[Bruno]

Mega pics

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

 

[ghengis86]

Hoboken subway station about to flooded!

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

Cat 1 cane isn't much for us in the south, but this is probably the equivalent of a blizzard hitting Central Florida.

 

[kathy88]

A house in jersey just took out a bridge and there are reports of numerous huge fires.

 

[presence]

Hate say it this early but this is an environmental Pearl Harbor.

What I find interesting is that while we are about to funnel billions into continually rebuilding doomed coastal cities (I believe in global warming and eminent sea rise, don't mind me), China in funneling billions into building self sustaining inland eco cities from scratch. Its all state money; we put things back the way they were with harm reduction Keyensian "activist stabilization policy" state money, while the "command economy" at least makes progress towards a better path. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-07-15/china-building-green-cities/56219286/1 One would almost say that keyensian principles in this case are actually worse than command principles.

have you guys seen the disabled swinging crane that's on cbs new's webcam?http://www.cbsnews.com/2718-201_162-1984/live-coverage-of-superstorm-sandy/?tag=custom

also I'm a map freak, don't mind me, but there are power outage maps up for NY, NJ, and CT at their perspective power company sites:

This is some holy shit, actually journalism from CBS News that has those links many many more, I'm proud of them today:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162...ady-without-power/?tag=contentAux;mostPopular