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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: D.H.W on October 28, 2012, 07:04:53 PM
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Weather Channel had its third straight day of a round-the-clock vigil for the approaching superstorm, and the tone of its meteorologists turned more ominous Sunday with evidence building that their forecasts would come true.
The network is planning to live-stream its television coverage online so people in the eastern United States who lose power can keep up with the news on their mobile devices. The storm is expected to affect some 50 million people.
"We want you to know we are not hyping this storm, OK?" on-air meteorologist Vivian Brown said. "We don't do that at The Weather Channel because we want you to be alert and aware."
Other television networks mixed news of Hurricane Sandy with stories like the presidential campaign. In New York, the local CBS outlet ran a split screen with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivering a storm briefing Sunday afternoon and the New York Jets' game against the Miami Dolphins.
But Hurricane Sandy, which is mixing with other weather systems to create a storm of unprecedented strength in the region, kept the undivided attention of The Weather Channel.
The network's Julie Martin, stationed on a beach in Nags Head, N.C., looked increasingly weary of the wind and rain as she described the storm's staying power in a series of live reports.
Meteorologist Jim Cantore, the network's most visible personality, said it was unlike anything he'd ever seen or covered. He had to take a brief break from his live reports from New York's Battery Park City to move his belongings because his hotel had been evacuated; his publicist's apartment was also in the evacuation zone.
Bryan Norcross, the network's senior hurricane specialist, explained in an interview that the network tries to keep its tone serious yet urgent. The network's computer models have been consistent in their forecasts of the storm and it has been acting as anticipated, perhaps with even more strength.
"Our goal has been to get people to appreciate the magnitude of the storm and try to prove to them that, based on everything we know, that this is going to be a system that is outside of their experience," Norcross said.
The Weather Channel sent a message via Twitter calling it "an extraordinary storm, an extremely serious threat" and urged followers to re-tweet it. The storm "will occupy a place in the annals of weather history as one of the most extraordinary to have affected the United States," the network tweeted.
Quickly, the Business Insider tweeted: "WHOA. The Weather Channel meteorologist just completely freaked out."
Twitter filled with messages of concern for people in its path, as well as a few oddities. Comic Ricky Gervais made an unprintable suggestion as a joke, while media mogul Rupert Murdoch tweeted: "Eerie feeling, but kids getting ready to celebrate no school."
ABC News posted a blog of storm-related news, while another Twitter message contained links to live webcams where computer users could track the storm's progress.
Cosmopolitan magazine tweeted advice for "how to cut your bangs at home (because if you're going to be house-bound for Sandy, why not?)." ''Sesame Street" offered a hurricane toolkit to help children understand what's going on.
Judging by The Weather Channel, there were also people who saw a business opportunity. There were frequent commercials from companies that make generators for people to keep electricity going in their homes if the power lines go down.
Partly to underline the seriousness of the situation, The Weather Channel has refrained from using the "Frankenstorm" nickname coined by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week when the storm was a model on its computer forecasts.
"Being cute about this storm is not the right idea," Norcross said.
http://news.yahoo.com/tone-turns-ominous-weather-channel-205402855.html
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All the best north east crew, stay safe
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yeah was checkin d news on dat dat fuuckin ting scary, forumites who in the path of dat a wish alyuh d best of luck and god's speed :( :( :worried:
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Video from Space
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/26471477
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Hilarious on @Hurricane_Sandy (https://twitter.com/ahurricanesandy)
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Some people have nothing better to do....idleness
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Frankienstorm :nailbiting:
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The weather channel doh hype storms? :bs:
I does call it weather porn, them fellas (and ladies) does be breakin all over theyself and trying to find someplace in the storm to stand up and tell you how hard it raining and how much the wind blowing. You could tell they disappointed when the storm hit somewhere else.
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Whole city shut down, no public transportation!
i went out tonight just to check the happening and there was no one on the streets in brooklyn, so i drove to the city and there was ah few bars and restaurants open, but not much, and very few ppl on the streets, with no trains and buses available i could see why.
real ghost town on holloween weekend. :nailbiting:
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category 1 doh do much damage.
once in miami the "experts" say one wasn't coming and we gone to work. hurricane come and had to talk through it to reach car. just wind and rain. doh fret brooklyn.
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4 o'clock this mornin i was the only car on the grand central parkway fuh miles
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4 o'clock this mornin i was the only car on the grand central parkway fuh miles
The mayor is an imps!
he shut down the city since 7 pm yesterday and the storm eh even hit up till now, all this panicking fuh nutten. right now it eh even raining steadily and the wind eh nutten to write home about .
steups he could have @ least waited till this morning to close the city now he will cost the city millions for his foolishness.
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4 o'clock this mornin i was the only car on the grand central parkway fuh miles
The mayor is an imps!
he shut down the city since 7 pm yesterday and the storm eh even hit up till now, all this panicking fuh nutten. right now it eh even raining steadily and the wind eh nutten to write home about .
steups he could have @ least waited till this morning to close the city now he will cost the city millions for his foolishness.
dread yuh kinda soundin like rowley year before, yuh need to give people enough time to organize deyself
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Quote from: capodetutticapi on Today at 06:06:37 PM (http://www.socawarriors.net/forum/index.php?topic=58346.msg827950#msg827950)4 o'clock this mornin i was the only car on the grand central parkway fuh miles
The mayor is an imps!
he shut down the city since 7 pm yesterday and the storm eh even hit up till now, all this panicking fuh nutten. right now it eh even raining steadily and the wind eh nutten to write home about .
steups he could have @ least waited till this morning to close the city now he will cost the city millions for his foolishness.
What the major did was correct.
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category 1 doh do much damage.
once in miami the "experts" say one wasn't coming and we gone to work. hurricane come and had to talk through it to reach car. just wind and rain. doh fret brooklyn.
This ain't yuh cat 1 storm
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4 o'clock this mornin i was the only car on the grand central parkway fuh miles
The mayor is an imps!
he shut down the city since 7 pm yesterday and the storm eh even hit up till now, all this panicking fuh nutten. right now it eh even raining steadily and the wind eh nutten to write home about .
steups he could have @ least waited till this morning to close the city now he will cost the city millions for his foolishness.
better to err on the side of caution
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4 o'clock this mornin i was the only car on the grand central parkway fuh miles
The mayor is an imps!
he shut down the city since 7 pm yesterday and the storm eh even hit up till now, all this panicking fuh nutten. right now it eh even raining steadily and the wind eh nutten to write home about .
steups he could have @ least waited till this morning to close the city now he will cost the city millions for his foolishness.
dread yuh kinda soundin like rowley year before, yuh need to give people enough time to organize deyself
Horse i livin here and i know why he's playing mr careful, the man facked up with the blizzard three yrs ago, so now he wants tuh blot out his fack up by being super careful, it would have been good if it had something to do with the ppl, but it's all about him and his image.
yesterday i was talking with a few business ppl who is pissed off bc he overreacts all the time, he did the same thing with irene.
i live through one of the worst blizzards in NY's history and the mayor @ the time didn't overreact, he shut down the city @ the appropriate time giving the public and proprietors enough time to be ready for the event. right now is ah whole day and night waste bc he wants to come off as being on top of things, when in reality he act way to early . stueppsss.
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Jus cool, yuh rite in part, people died durin de blizzard which he handled abysmally, a pregnant woman to boot in Brooklyn. However is approach now and last year for Irene is correct, but we could agree to disagree on that/ As for storm not hittin yet, well, cyar say I agree wid dat, over 100K lost power in long island and major floodin near de coast, rockaways, long beach etc
All in all, glad yuh safe bro, and all other massive
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The storm is hitting DC good and proper now. I live in an area that has many trees, so I am keeping my fingers crossed.
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friend of mine in staten island i think..moved out of her apartment from her abusive boyfriend last week..speaking to her just now she said that building she used to stay is now heavily under water...u see how things work out...?!!
prayers to eastside tonight/tomorrow
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Storm Sandy makes landfall in eastern US
A major storm bringing torrential rain, high winds, flood surges and heavy snow has made landfall on the east US coast.
Sandy, now a post-tropical cyclone, passed over the New Jersey coast at about 20:00 local time (midnight GMT), packing winds of about 80mph (129km/h).
Up to 60 million people could be affected, with hundreds of thousands ordered to evacuate homes. More than a million people have lost power.
Transport has halted in eastern cities, and thousands of flights are grounded.
The storm killed dozens of people as it passed through the Caribbean.
Sandy lost its hurricane status late on Monday as it neared the coast and collided with winter weather systems.
It made landfall close to Atlantic City.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20133158
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Battery tunnel under several feet of water, 5 people died in NYS, all bridges and tunnels into and out of NYC closed, 4 feet of water in NYC subways on east side, major flooding along coastlines, 1 million plus w/o power for multiple reasons
Edit: airports closed, major roadways closed (FDR, Bronx River pkwy etc)
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Shit hit the fan now
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Kitchen was leaking water thru the overhead fixture most ah de day, but I cool now. I run to de store earlier and things was normel normel, but it pick up now, nuff wind and rain in my ass, but we dry so all things considered we good.
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It's been raining here all night, I just walked outside and noticed ice I was like wtf
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/49603171#49603171
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It's been raining here all night, I just walked outside and noticed ice I was like wtf
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/49603171#49603171
This is some of the most bizarre weather experiences I have had a long time. Days like this I wish I had kept mih arse in T&T. T&T seems to have a talent for avoiding the big one, or escaping relatively unscathed.
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It's been raining here all night, I just walked outside and noticed ice I was like wtf
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/49603171#49603171
You in WV... along with Western MD allyuh supposed tuh have snow.
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This is some of the most bizarre weather experiences I have had a long time. Days like this I wish I had kept mih arse in T&T. T&T seems to have a talent for avoiding the big one, or escaping relatively unscathed.
Hurricanes this far north are about as rare as they are as far south as TnT... that talent you refer too musta still been in the infancy stage in 1974.
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This is some of the most bizarre weather experiences I have had a long time. Days like this I wish I had kept mih arse in T&T. T&T seems to have a talent for avoiding the big one, or escaping relatively unscathed.
Hurricanes this far north are about as rare as they are as far south as TnT... that talent you refer too musta still been in the infancy stage in 1974.
Point taken. I was not alive in 1974, so my original statement was more based on my experiences growing up in T&T. I guess I forget I am a young man sometimes.
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Storm past nice and cool in bklyn, no lost of power, very very few down trees, more branches than anything else. i have to say that bklyn is one of the most secure places in down state where bad weather is concerned.
apart from the communities on the water the rest of brooklyn is basically on a hill so we don't experience flooding and heavy snow accumulation, we also have very good public transportation access.
i guess that's why all these white ppl passing up the suburbs and flocking to bklyn, i guess that's why i move back too. ;D
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I getting some drips from meh bathroom upstairs. So I will contacting the roof man. Other than that everything's cool with me.
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At Least 80 Flooded Houses Destroyed by NYC Fire
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
NEW YORK October 30, 2012 (AP)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/15-houses-ablaze-nyc-storm-sweeps-17595158#.UI_com_A-So
A huge fire destroyed 80 to 100 houses in a flooded beachfront neighborhood Tuesday, forcing firefighters to undertake daring rescues and injuring three people.
More than 190 firefighters contained the blaze but were still putting out some pockets of fire more than nine hours after it erupted.
As daylight broke, neighbors walked around aimlessly through their smoke-filled Breezy Point neighborhood, which sits on the Rockaway peninsula jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. Electrical wires dangled within feet of the street.
Officials said the fire was reported around 11 p.m. Monday in an area flooded by the superstorm that began sweeping through the city earlier.
Firefighters told WABC-TV that the water was chest high on the street, and they had to use a boat to make rescues. They said in one apartment home, about 25 people were trapped in an upstairs unit, and the two-story home next door was ablaze and setting fire to the apartment's roof. Firefighters climbed an awning to get to the trapped people and took them downstairs to a boat in the street.
Video footage of the scene showed a hellish swath of tightly packed homes fully engulfed in orange flames as firefighters hauled hoses while sloshing in ankle-high water. Many homes appeared completely flattened by the wind-whipped flames.
One firefighter suffered a minor injury and was taken to a hospital. Two civilians suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene.
In September, the same neighborhood was struck by a tornado that hurled debris in the air, knocked out power and startled residents who once thought of twisters as a Midwestern phenomenon.
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In September, the same neighborhood was struck by a tornado that hurled debris in the air, knocked out power and startled residents who once thought of twisters as a Midwestern phenomenon.
wow brings sharply back into perspective the idea of climate change and what it could mean for the future
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god vex wid we for burning the holy books and its preachings and accepting faggots into society..
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god vex wid we for burning the holy books and its preachings and accepting faggots into society..
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Allyuh love to blame allyuh ignorance on God eh, now tell meh, what God have to do with your madness??!
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god vex wid we for burning the holy books and its preachings and accepting faggots into society..
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You sounding like a mad man.
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In September, the same neighborhood was struck by a tornado that hurled debris in the air, knocked out power and startled residents who once thought of twisters as a Midwestern phenomenon.
wow brings sharply back into perspective the idea of climate change and what it could mean for the future
The entire plant was shaped by climate change and natural geophysical actions. Why do we expect it to be any different in 2012 and beyond.
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In September, the same neighborhood was struck by a tornado that hurled debris in the air, knocked out power and startled residents who once thought of twisters as a Midwestern phenomenon.
wow brings sharply back into perspective the idea of climate change and what it could mean for the future
The entire plant was shaped by climate change and natural geophysical actions. Why do we expect it to be any different in 2012 and beyond.
Key word natural. China and USA will kill with pollution soon
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the planet will survive any global warming/climate change...question is how many of us will die due to its consequences
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The entire plant was shaped by climate change and natural geophysical actions. Why do we expect it to be any different in 2012 and beyond.
NYTrini said it best... the planet will survive, but how many of us will? Earth take nuff blows in de earlies, from catastrophic floods to cataclysmic strikes from meteors and asteroids. The apex predators at the time didn't survive the last big one, so man is on notice. Climate change will bring even less land mass, and less freshwater than we currently have. Two things 6 billion+ will be fighting for in the aftermath of global warming.
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Big cities need tunnels like this...
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2012/10/31/pkg-zolbert-japan-flood-tunnels.cnn
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Anybody pullin bull in and out of manhattan today go make a killing$
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Anybody pullin bull in and out of manhattan today go make a killing$
Really? Bus and Subway free and only vehicles with 3+ people allowed to cross the bridge.
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i have a friend right now in queens who lives/lived in manhattan..she's trying to get in touch with the consulate but can't get through till now....what help are they offering and what are their number(s)?
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i have a friend right now in queens who lives/lived in manhattan..she's trying to get in touch with the consulate but can't get through till now....what help are they offering and what are their number(s)?
Try contacting Dr. Neil Parsan (Ambassador of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to the United States of America) at nparsan@gmail.com or text 202-905-0555
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i have a friend right now in queens who lives/lived in manhattan..she's trying to get in touch with the consulate but can't get through till now....what help are they offering and what are their number(s)?
Try contacting Dr. Neil Parsan (Ambassador of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to the United States of America) at nparsan@gmail.com or text 202-905-0555
:beermug: :beermug: thanks tallman
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Bodies of Missing Staten Island Boys Found in Marsh: NYPD
The mother of the two boys had told police they were swept away by a storm surge Monday night
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Police say the bodies of two young Staten Island boys who were reported missing in the aftermath of Sandy have been found in a marsh.
The boys, ages 2 and 4, were found about 15 yards from each other up against debris and a tree in the marsh near Father Capodanno Boulevard in South Beach three days after their mother told police they were lost in a storm surge from Sandy.
Two-year-old Brandon Moore and 4-year-old Connor Moore were swept away after their mother placed them on the roof of her SUV on Monday amid rushing waters that caused the vehicle to stall, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said as he announced the discovery of the bodies.
Police have said the mother, Glenda Moore, was going to a shelter when she tried to flee the vehicle with the boys, losing her grip on their hands in the rising water and under the relentless cadence of pounding waves.
"She put the two boys on the roof of the car to avoid the water, and then another large wave came, and it apparently washed them away," Kelly said. "Of course, the mother was totally, completely distraught. She started looking for them herself, asking people to help her look."
The search has continued ever since, with numerous emergency personnel joining the march through Staten Island marshland until the bodies were located at the end of a narrow dead end street.
"Terrible, absolutely terrible," Kelly said. "It just compounds all the tragic aspects of this horrific event."
More than a dozen police officers from the NYPD Scuba Unit had fanned out across the area to search for the boys after they were reported missing. The mother's blue SUV was pulled out of the marsh earlier Wednesday.
More than 35 deaths in New York City have been attributed to Sandy.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Missing-Boys-Staten-Island-Body-Sandy-Hurricane-Disaster-176801031.html