Topic: Tropical Storm Sandy

[Glock32]

Here in the Blue Ridge we are getting snow as the backside of the storm wraps in over the colder air that plunged down from Canada.  Some areas are forecast to get over 2 feet.  Highly unusual amount of snow for October.

[Libertas]

Here in the Blue Ridge we are getting snow as the backside of the storm wraps in over the colder air that plunged down from Canada.  Some areas are forecast to get over 2 feet.  Highly unusual amount of snow for October.

That cold air is being sucked in to fill the vacuum left by Sandy as she passes north.  Pretty impressive satellite action!

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/flash-wv.html

Zone A being evacuated per Mayor Doomberg, he might be a jackass, but he knows better to play it safe than risk being an idiot like Ray Nagin during Katrina.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-28/new-york-mayor-orders-evacuation-zone-residents

ETA - State by state forecasts, looks like Connecticut (6-9') is the storm surge prom queen (as is the storm tide surge of 14-15' at Bridgeport) -

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-29/sandys-state-state-impact-forecast

Where your people at JF?  Hope they get inland!

[ToddF]

Exactly what happened in Minnesota in 1991.  The whole thing this time is just a little further east.

[John Florida]

Here in the Blue Ridge we are getting snow as the backside of the storm wraps in over the colder air that plunged down from Canada.  Some areas are forecast to get over 2 feet.  Highly unusual amount of snow for October.

That cold air is being sucked in to fill the vacuum left by Sandy as she passes north.  Pretty impressive satellite action!

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/flash-wv.html

Zone A being evacuated per Mayor Doomberg, he might be a jackass, but he knows better to play it safe than risk being an idiot like Ray Nagin during Katrina.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-28/new-york-mayor-orders-evacuation-zone-residents

ETA - State by state forecasts, looks like Connecticut (6-9') is the storm surge prom queen (as is the storm tide surge of 14-15' at Bridgeport) -

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-29/sandys-state-state-impact-forecast

Where your people at JF?  Hope they get inland!

  They're all well inland(any I care about) there is one in  the milford area who has got to be sweating bullets and not to mention his boat is still in the water which will be a major problem for him.

 The parents and kids are all ready and waiting and should be OK but I still worry.

[Libertas]

Here in the Blue Ridge we are getting snow as the backside of the storm wraps in over the colder air that plunged down from Canada.  Some areas are forecast to get over 2 feet.  Highly unusual amount of snow for October.

That cold air is being sucked in to fill the vacuum left by Sandy as she passes north.  Pretty impressive satellite action!

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/flash-wv.html

Zone A being evacuated per Mayor Doomberg, he might be a jackass, but he knows better to play it safe than risk being an idiot like Ray Nagin during Katrina.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-28/new-york-mayor-orders-evacuation-zone-residents

ETA - State by state forecasts, looks like Connecticut (6-9') is the storm surge prom queen (as is the storm tide surge of 14-15' at Bridgeport) -

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-29/sandys-state-state-impact-forecast

Where your people at JF?  Hope they get inland!

  They're all well inland(any I care about) there is one in  the milford area who has got to be sweating bullets and not to mention his boat is still in the water which will be a major problem for him.

 The parents and kids are all ready and waiting and should be OK but I still worry.

Glad to hear it.   

Hope the dude in Milford has good insurance! 

[John Florida]

Here in the Blue Ridge we are getting snow as the backside of the storm wraps in over the colder air that plunged down from Canada.  Some areas are forecast to get over 2 feet.  Highly unusual amount of snow for October.

That cold air is being sucked in to fill the vacuum left by Sandy as she passes north.  Pretty impressive satellite action!

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/flash-wv.html

Zone A being evacuated per Mayor Doomberg, he might be a jackass, but he knows better to play it safe than risk being an idiot like Ray Nagin during Katrina.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-28/new-york-mayor-orders-evacuation-zone-residents

ETA - State by state forecasts, looks like Connecticut (6-9') is the storm surge prom queen (as is the storm tide surge of 14-15' at Bridgeport) -

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-29/sandys-state-state-impact-forecast

Where your people at JF?  Hope they get inland!

  They're all well inland(any I care about) there is one in  the milford area who has got to be sweating bullets and not to mention his boat is still in the water which will be a major problem for him.

 The parents and kids are all ready and waiting and should be OK but I still worry.

Glad to hear it.   

Hope the dude in Milford has good insurance! 

  He just got the boat a couple of months ago.

[Libertas]

Here in the Blue Ridge we are getting snow as the backside of the storm wraps in over the colder air that plunged down from Canada.  Some areas are forecast to get over 2 feet.  Highly unusual amount of snow for October.

That cold air is being sucked in to fill the vacuum left by Sandy as she passes north.  Pretty impressive satellite action!

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/flash-wv.html

Zone A being evacuated per Mayor Doomberg, he might be a jackass, but he knows better to play it safe than risk being an idiot like Ray Nagin during Katrina.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-28/new-york-mayor-orders-evacuation-zone-residents

ETA - State by state forecasts, looks like Connecticut (6-9') is the storm surge prom queen (as is the storm tide surge of 14-15' at Bridgeport) -

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-29/sandys-state-state-impact-forecast

Where your people at JF?  Hope they get inland!

  They're all well inland(any I care about) there is one in  the milford area who has got to be sweating bullets and not to mention his boat is still in the water which will be a major problem for him.

 The parents and kids are all ready and waiting and should be OK but I still worry.

Glad to hear it.   

Hope the dude in Milford has good insurance! 

  He just got the boat a couple of months ago.

   DOH!

[LadyVirginia]

My brother is on the coast on Connecticut.  He's on a hill though about 2 miles from the water.

He works from home and is stocked up.

[Pandora]

Prayers for safety for him ... and all.

[charlesoakwood]

If they'd only listened to AlGore and his warnings.

sigh

[Pandora]

"Emergency workers are at the scene of a crane that's dangling off a 65-story building in New York City.

According to CBS New York, the crane collapsed Monday afternoon at a building under construction on West 57th Street. No injuries are reported. However, streets have been cleared as a precaution.

The city has ordered people in neighboring buildings to move to lower floors. Streets have been cleared.

The call came in around 2:30 p.m. Monday. At the time, according to the National Weather Service, winds in Manhattan were blowing at about 20 mph with gusts up to about 40 mph.

The New York City Buildings Department suspended construction work at 5 p.m. Saturday in anticipation of the storm.

It reminded contractors and property owners to secure construction sites and buildings. It also was performing random inspections to make sure equipment was secured."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57542164/crane-dangles-from-nyc-high-rise-as-hurricane-sandy-bears-down-on-city/

"The crane collapsed ...".  Sheesh, these people know nothing.  The boom busted loose; some idiot did not do his job "securing" equipment.

Did you know those things walk themselves up and down the buildings?

[charlesoakwood]

At 11PM EST they aren't even trying to act as if they are standing against the force of nature.  Sad.  One was hoping it would go straight up the Potomac and tear down the walls.
Just a big fat rain storm.

[trapeze]

Looking at a 200+ picture slide show at TWC and a thought came to mind: If only this had come a year ago it would have completely solved the entire OWS issue. It woulda washed them hippies away but good. Pity. It's all about timing, you know.

[Libertas]

Looking at a 200+ picture slide show at TWC and a thought came to mind: If only this had come a year ago it would have completely solved the entire OWS issue. It woulda washed them hippies away but good. Pity. It's all about timing, you know.

Heh.  Yeah, poor timing.  

Some pics -

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

670k w/o power -

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-29/670000-without-power-coned-says-repairs-could-take-week-interactive-status-map

Jersey - 3 cities flooded due to possible (is it or isn't it?) levee break -

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/30/us-levee-moonachie-break-idUSBRE89T0L020121030

On the asshat front we have:

1)  CT Gov not letting a good crisis go to waste, extending in-person voter reg dealine through November 1st via executive order -

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/29/connecticut-officials-urge-residents-to-take-hurricane-sandy-seriously/

2) The Old Gray Hag says "Big storms require Big government"?  Shocking, eh?  So, true to form, let's use this storm to beat the shyt out of Mitt Romney!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/opinion/a-big-storm-requires-big-government.html?_r=0

Seriously, who reads any of this 3rd grader bed-wetting crybaby BS anyway?  


ETA - Being an old squid, pic #14 in Trap's link really made me wince.  

Pics 101 & 102 can be deleted!   

The art work and message on #164 is pretty good!   

Impressive rainbow on #206!   

Wonder what the count is for lost surfers?

[AlanS]

"The crane collapsed ...".  Sheesh, these people know nothing.  The boom busted loose; some idiot did not do his job "securing" equipment.

I must admit I'm impressed with your knowledge of cranes, Pan.

[Pandora]

"The crane collapsed ...".  Sheesh, these people know nothing.  The boom busted loose; some idiot did not do his job "securing" equipment.

I must admit I'm impressed with your knowledge of cranes, Pan.

 

Gunsmith did some iron-working in NYC in his younger days.  I picked his brain.

That crane is usually secured to the top of the building; *(this one's bolted to the open-work "tower" immediately adjacent which it "climbs", using  hydraulics to move up and down.)  Another tower-crane rig is going to have to be erected in order to get the busted one down now.

Smaller rigs are called derricks.  They use the open framework of the building itself -- the skeleton -- to move up and down; it's called "jumping the crane".

Interesting, the brain that designed a piece of equipment like that for heavy lifting/manuevering that can also move/lift itself.

eta - *I just took another look at the pic.

[Pandora]

Just talked to Ma; power's been out since last night.  My brother has none either.  Sh!t.

[Libertas]

They in Jersey?

[Pandora]

They in Jersey?

Yes.  North-central Jersey.  SIL got through to the power company; they say restoral probable by Monday.  Not good.

Tearing my hair out down here, pissed off, because nobody frickin LISTENS.

[Libertas]

They in Jersey?

Yes.  North-central Jersey.  SIL got through to the power company; they say restoral probable by Monday.  Not good.

Tearing my hair out down here, pissed off, because nobody frickin LISTENS.

Yikes, people gotta learn to not take stuff for granted.  Monday is a long time off.