Sandy is a bitch and a half, the likes of which I've never seen.

[ElisabethWhispers]

Just a side note, the full moon is on the 29th of this month. Not the 31st.

Very thoughtful offer, Kayla.

[Guest032516]

Originally Posted by joe bloe

Absolutely. Houston/Galveston could take a force five hurricane, and MSM would give that less coverage than New England getting hit by a tropical storm, that doesn't even qualify as a hurricane.

MSM clearly thinks that liberal states, on the east coast, are more important than the Republican states on the Gulf Coast.

Aren't you being just a bit paranoid now?

Long Island has been hit by bad hurricanes in the past. In the 1930s a big hurricane breached the barrier beaches on eastern LI and turned some bays temporarily into ocean.

The damage, and the TV coverage, is not determined just by the wind. It also depends heavily on the population affected and flooding.

A Cat 3 storm that brings a big storm surge on top of a high tide and that hits a densely populated coastal area will do much more damage than a Cat 5 with a smaller surge coinciding with low tide and making landfall in a less populated area.

[nevergaveitathought]

The last time a storm made it up northeast... Wasn't it a rainstorm last year?

And we heard about it for maybe ten days... "and here in new jersey, it rained, look!"

This one who knows, but is it even a hurricane? Nope

[pyramider]

The NE toilet bowl needs a good scrubbing ... Go get 'em Sandy.

[Guest032516]

Originally Posted by ExNYer

Aren't you being just a bit paranoid now?

Long Island has been hit by bad hurricanes in the past. In the 1930s a big hurricane breached the barrier beaches on eastern LI and turned some bays temporarily into ocean.

The damage, and the TV coverage, is not determined just by the wind. It also depends heavily on the population affected and flooding.

A Cat 3 storm that brings a big storm surge on top of a high tide and that hits a densely populated coastal area will do much more damage than a Cat 5 with a smaller surge coinciding with low tide and making landfall in a less populated area.

Looks like some barrier beaches have already been breached in New Jersey:

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/201...case-scenario/

Big time flooding.

[Guest032516]

Originally Posted by pyramider

The NE toilet bowl needs a good scrubbing ... Go get 'em Sandy.

Just plain stupid.

Why would you wish ill will on others? Do you remember anyone else in the country wishing Katrina or any other hurricane would hit the Gulf extra hard?

And if Sandy does phenomenal damage, who do you think is going to pay for it? You, that's who.

[Trey]

Why is everyone so f freaking out over this storm? It's a cat one not that big a deal, hell we still go to work in houston over a cat 1.

[markroxny]

Originally Posted by ekim008

I was wondering if the wingers who hate the government will ask for help if they are hit?

Gov Christie in NJ didn't hesitate.
http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/l...ew-jersey.html

[JD Barleycorn]

Citation???

Good news (I guess it depends on your point of view)! The storm surge might overflow Fire Island and part of the Hamptons and make them disappear. So if you don't like gay people, rich people, or gay rich people then you have something to celebrate. This should make the Occupy people very happy.

[Guest032516]

Originally Posted by trey

Why is everyone so f freaking out over this storm? It's a cat one not that big a deal, hell we still go to work in houston over a cat 1.

It's not just the wind category that counts.

It is the size of the storm surge, high tide vs. low tide, and how many people live close to the waters edge.

Downtown Houston is 40 miles from the ocean and over 10 miles from the closest part of Trinity Bay.

Lower Manhattan is dipped in salt water. It's only a few feet above sea level.

There are about 40-50 million people living in the general region where the storm will hit. Probably 10 million that are less then 15 feet above sea level. The storm surge could easily be 10 feet and it may be coinciding with an unusually high tide.

The wind has already knocked out a crane in Manhattan:

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/...on-in-midtown/

Who do you think is going to pay for the damage from Sandy? All of us taxpayers, that's who.

[joe bloe]

Originally Posted by trey

Why is everyone so f freaking out over this storm? It's a cat one not that big a deal, hell we still go to work in houston over a cat 1.

We play golf in Houston, in category ones.

[markroxny]

Originally Posted by markroxny

Gov Christie in NJ didn't hesitate.
http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/l...ew-jersey.html

Citation for old man Barley:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...relief/264206/

KING: You've been a chief executive of a state. I was just in Joplin, Missouri. I've been in Mississippi and Louisiana and Tennessee and other communities dealing with whether it's the tornadoes, the flooding, and worse. FEMA is about to run out of money, and there are some people who say do it on a case-by-case basis and some people who say, you know, maybe we're learning a lesson here that the states should take on more of this role. How do you deal with something like that?

ROMNEY: Absolutely. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that's even better.

Instead of thinking in the federal budget, what we should cut -- we should ask ourselves the opposite question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we're doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we're doing that we don't have to do? And those things we've got to stop doing, because we're borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we're taking in. We cannot...

KING: Including disaster relief, though?

ROMNEY: We cannot -- we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we'll all be dead and gone before it's paid off. It makes no sense at all.

Boy it's a good thing this clown Romney is not the president right now. The entire NE would be screwed waiting for the "private sector" to step up and give states like NJ emergency cash.

The president, knew what to do.
http://www.rttnews.com/1992749/obama...y.aspx?type=gn

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-...dy-were-ready/

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by joe bloe

If Obama is re-elected, the end of the world won't be 12/21/12; it will be 11/06/12.

Well that'll give you six weeks to pack your shit and take off for Kolob!

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by ExNYer

It's not just the wind category that counts.

It is the size of the storm surge, high tide vs. low tide, and how many people live close to the waters edge.

Downtown Houston is 40 miles from the ocean and over 10 miles from the closest part of Trinity Bay.

Lower Manhattan is dipped in salt water. It's only a few feet above sea level.

There are about 40-50 million people living in the general region where the storm will hit. Probably 10 million that are less then 15 feet above sea level. The storm surge could easily be 10 feet and it may be coinciding with an unusually high tide.

The wind has already knocked out a crane in Manhattan:

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/...on-in-midtown/

Who do you think is going to pay for the damage from Sandy? All of us taxpayers, that's who.

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's 28-foot storm surge and 30–55 foot seawaves devastated Gulfport, Mississippi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kou0HBpX4A



Pascagoula, MS

[Guest032516]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's 28-foot storm surge and 30–55 foot seawaves devastated Gulfport, Mississippi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kou0HBpX4A

Good thing only 87 people lived there.