On October 31 2012 02:19 LeSioN wrote: so funny to see the difference in cultures. here in florida we have parties on the beach as one of these tiny storms is about to hit. in ny, people screaming armageddon and clogging up my news feeds with "news of the storm" are people honestly worried?
Dude, so rude, of course there's a difference. In NY and northern states they are horribly prepared to defend against these kinds of things; FL gets hit with them regularly. building codes, flood preparation and protocol, even just the mindset of people will be different, look at the damage caused already, people have a right to be worried. While yes a hurricane in FL can be laughable(I have a house in Venice,FL, and was there during a hurricane/TroStorm this year), imagine a blizzard! Hundreds of people would freeze to death due to the nature of house insulation, pipes would burst, telephone/power lines would collapse under the weight of snow etc etc...
PS check out the satellite images, this is the "perfect storm" come again. Only happens once and awhile, but when it does, look out!
Sandy was a Category 1 in wind only, every other aspects of it were Cat 3-4, pressure, etc.
On top of that it collided with a Nor'Easter, which is scary enough on its own and turned into what they are calling Superstorm because they didn't know what the hell to call it otherwise.
There was 15+ foot stormsurge in NYC, almost none of which is behind levies, placed under sea level so that houses would be flooded over their roofs if the seawall collapsed.
Just because Katrina had more deaths doesn't mean that this wasn't destructive. It isn't the oppression Olympics, it is like saying my earthquake kicked your blizzard's ass. Two totally different problems.
As someone that was on Sanibel during Hurricane Charlie, the flooding in NYC scares me more than the destruction that they had there. NYC has 600+ miles of underground subway tracks alone, not to mention all the other underground utilities that will be causing problems, and the winds were increased exponentially for all the massive skyscrapers. Entire streets are flooded, and people are trapped because of livewires. The reported death roll is only 30, but bodies will be found over the next few weeks from people that thought like you and didn't take it seriously.
Apparently it was worse further north, but here in DC it wasn't bad. I know folks in MD are without power, which sucks, but I think the worst of the flooding is north of here.
As someone in MD who lost power and has friends and family all over the North East, I am still terrified for them. Some people haven't checked back in yet or been heard from at all.
Billions and billions of dollars in damage so far. NYC subways are done for days the cleanup of all the floodwaters/debris out of the tunnels that got flooded is going to be a huge effort.
On October 31 2012 03:32 LuckyFool wrote: Billions and billions of dollars in damage so far. NYC subways are done for days the cleanup of all the floodwaters/debris out of the tunnels that got flooded is going to be a huge effort.
On October 31 2012 03:32 LuckyFool wrote: Billions and billions of dollars in damage so far. NYC subways are done for days the cleanup of all the floodwaters/debris out of the tunnels that got flooded is going to be a huge effort.
How are you doing personally Rob?
well he's a lucky fool so he probably still has comfortable power and everything
bronx is untouched... Midtown and lower manhattan is screwed, all subway will be done for days. New Jersey coastline towns partially washed away. Huge damages in some areas of Queens and Staten Island. Fallen trees are everywhere. Pretty shitty situation in general.
On October 31 2012 03:32 LuckyFool wrote: Billions and billions of dollars in damage so far. NYC subways are done for days the cleanup of all the floodwaters/debris out of the tunnels that got flooded is going to be a huge effort.
How are you doing personally Rob?
I'm fine, no damage to house, didn't even lose power. #liveduptomyname
On October 31 2012 03:32 LuckyFool wrote: Billions and billions of dollars in damage so far. NYC subways are done for days the cleanup of all the floodwaters/debris out of the tunnels that got flooded is going to be a huge effort.
How are you doing personally Rob?
I'm fine, no damage to house, didn't even lose power. #liveduptomyname
No school tomorrow, and my house has power and internet.
-- In Richmond Hill, Queens, a 23-year-old woman taking cellphone photos of a power line that had caught fire suffered a horrific death after she stepped on a live wire on the sidewalk and fell to the ground, screaming.
"She was right on top of the live cables and they were just frying her," said neighbor Renny Bhagretta, 44, who watched from his window on 134th St. Monday night. "She couldn't move. She didn't have a chance."
Police, firefighters and Con Edison workers couldn’t get near the victim for almost two hours because cables strewn all over the road were still sparking.
"Her body was burning," said neighbor Asha Bhagaretti, 43. "It was just horrifying."
light rainstorm with a bit of wind. and weatherman said eye was supposed to hit us. this is worse hype than that storm of the century thing we had a couple years back. if you don't live on the coast, than whats up with the hype. cities need to get their infrastructure together. on my block he have 2 power boxes. power rarely goes out no matter how strong a storm.
I live in Bel Air, Maryland. The worst of the storm passed pretty much right over my house. I'm at a high elevation, so we didn't see much flooding, but the winds were extremely powerful, enough to knock you off your feet at times if you weren't prepared. Not only that, but the winds were sustained for a long period, probably around 8-10 hours. Rainfall didn't seem all that bad, but went on for the better part of 24 hours. Power went out at 5pm last night, didn't come back on until 2pm today. Almost every business, restaurant, and street light was out. Every red light was a four way stop. Minor inconveniences, I know, but when half the morons on the road are on their cellphone, it causes many accidents (and it did).
All the people saying that the storm was "all hype" clearly don't live in an affected area and didn't see what happened in some of the areas around us. Western Maryland was hammered with snow and rain and Ocean City, Maryland as well as other coastal areas around here were completely washed away.
The eye of this storm didn't experience the worst at all. In fact the eye literally dissolved as the storm was engulfed by the other northeast storm system, pushing almost all of the most powerful energy in a north and west motion.
Coastal areas of NJ and NY saw the worst effects, not where the storm actually made landfall or tracked. The push of that energy extended all the way up through long island sound, wind gusts in RI were double what PA saw even though the "center" moved over PA. As that energy was pushed north and then west it created the insane storm surges. This was absolutely no ordinary hurricane, and honestly unlike anything we've really ever seen which is why it was stopped being called a hurricane very quickly and all the major weather outlets started calling it a "superstorm." when that energy shift happened.
Could end up being one of the most costliest storms in U.S history by the time all the flood damage is evaluated. No way is it going to get near Katrina like damage/numbers though.
On October 31 2012 02:19 LeSioN wrote: so funny to see the difference in cultures. here in florida we have parties on the beach as one of these tiny storms is about to hit. in ny, people screaming armageddon and clogging up my news feeds with "news of the storm" are people honestly worried?
You're so desperate to brag about something you chose a storm? Really? You know people died, right? And there are huge parts of a major city that are completely destroyed?
EPT
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/I4tgv.jpg)
