Frankenstorm Sandy

[tomustang]

It's real up in DC

[tomustang]

Slideshow

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/49596252/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=49596252

[Traveler2586]

AFAIK, BFE, etc. - - Doesn't anyone speak english anymore? Between Facebook, this forum, and others, I keep Bing open to search on acronyms. MLS

[tomustang]

People have been using the term BFE before there was an internet

[J Francho]

AFAIK is pretty common BTW, JMHO, LULZ.

[tomustang]

I miss my cable

[Nitrofreak]

AFAIK, BFE, etc. - - Doesn't anyone speak english anymore? Between Facebook, this forum, and others, I keep Bing open to search on acronyms. MLS

Ha Ha !!! we are just a little too old my friend lol !!!

I just ask my daughters, they are my go to source lol !!

[tomustang]

8 million out of power, 3 dozen confirmed dead, last I checked

[tomustang]

Some reports are claiming 7-10 days without power. My area is estimated at 10 but the power guys are running efficient this time

[bkohlman]

Prayers for everyone in the NE.

[preach4bass]

I've been seeing constant updates on TV and the Web, and you'd think it's the end of the world. Seems like a big rainstorm to me. We get these all the time over in my neck of the woods....and we "natives" still don't own umbrellas. LOL!

I'm gussing your "big rainstorms" don't leave 50 dead and an estimated $20 billion in damages. I live not far from the OBX, so I'm used to hurricanes. They take lives, destroy property, and just leave a big ol' mess behind. I've seen worse storms down here than what hit NY and NJ. However, the sheer number of people who live up there makes this storm a bigger deal. Down here, thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) of lives are affected by hurricanes. Up there, millions are affected. This was a bad storm.

[ww2farmer]

I had all my firearms cleaned, loaded, and issued to each member of the household to fend off the impending hoard of looters that was sure to come with this apocolyptic storm. I also had the boat tied to the front porch so we could get away from the rapidly rising flood waters, so you could imagine the total shock this morning when I woke up to find the lid to one of my garbage cans off, my neighbors leaf pile had a few leaves blown onto my drive way, the cat came into the house with wet,muddy feet, and I think I saw a stick fall out of a tree. It was horrible, I'll be telling my grandkids about this one for sure. That is if we even live through the first snowfall this year.

[Glenn]

Ya, this was a big a storm. I've talked to many folks in that area, and from what they tell me, the major devastation shown on the news is thankfully isolated. That said, I know too well what it's like to be without power for days on end, and have major roads blocked by hundreds of downed trees.

Again, I feel bad for those affected.

[Traveler2586]

I'm guessing your "big rainstorms" don't leave 50 dead and an estimated $20 billion in damages. Oh, just wait for Mt. Rainier to pop it's cork, or the West Coast to drop off into the sea

I live not far from the OBX, so I'm used to hurricanes. They take lives, destroy property, and just leave a big ol' mess behind. I've seen worse storms down here than what hit NY and NJ. However, the sheer number of people who live up there makes this storm a bigger deal. Down here, thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) of lives are affected by hurricanes. Up there, millions are affected. This was a bad storm.

IMHO, I don't think anyone is saying the storm wasn't bad, it was - in some areas; NY & NJ got hit hard and I grieve for those that lost love-ones and property. We here where I live missed a bullet as Sandy was kind to us; out of 280 homes - only one had some siding pulled off, and one lost a Bradford Pare tree in their front yard (no big loss there).

It's just the media hype in reporting the facts. The Jet stream notwithstanding, in truth it was a Cat. 1 storm, but the media played it up to sound like a Cat. 5 in our area. Now they're doing a Flood Watch Center here because, as one would expect after a storm, the runoff will drain down the river.

It's just the trend in news reporting by media company's seeking ratings, which translates into sponsorship, which translates into money; they have to out-do each other to get their piece of the pie.

[tomustang]

Our energy company confirmed they won't get to my area until monday

[Fishing Rhino]

Anyone hear from Rhino? His home town was in the news all night with the biggest concern of the high tide set for midnight. The town next to his had a lot of evacuations, so I hope all is alright with him and his family.

We're all fine. While we lost a few dead and dying, ant infested trees around the house we didn't lose power, though many sections in town and the surrounding communities did.

The wife and I had been at our younger daughter's home in GA for five weeks. She had surgery in September, so we went down to help out around the house while she got back on her feet, and the all clear from her doc to resume normal activities. We left about one-thirty Saturday afternoon, and arrived home on Sunday morning, in time for the excitement on Monday.

Thanks for thinking of us.

edit: From the time we got on I-40 east from I-75 and then north onto I-81, most of the traffic was countless utility vehicles from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and other states heading toward their staging destinations in the areas most likely to be affected by the storm. Boom trucks, trucks for installing power poles, generators, trucks with miscellaneous equipment, and pickup trucks formed convoys headed to the Northeast.

Some of the crews working around our town were from Alabama.

[SirSnookalot]

I don't think it was over hype at all, better to be overly warned and take precautions than take things too lightly and maybe pay the consequences.

We went thru Wilma in 2008, yeh it was bad, no power and all that for quite a few days. Here lies the big difference, Floridians for the most part are prepared forehand, I arrived back in town about 12 hours before Wilma hit, I already had everything. For me it was a matter of being in a single family home, after the storm I could easily get out even though we still had no power. However many in NYC are not pre-prepared, live in high rises and having to walk up and down until power is restored, very difficult for seniors. They are more dependent on mass transit, subways have never encountered the problems they have now.

[Fishing Rhino]

Most of the severe damage from these type of storms is from the tidal surge. Extremely low barometric pressure accompanying the storm, a full moon which produces greater tidal fluctuations, and water driven by the wind toward the shore produce extremely damaging high tides. This was the case in western Long Island sound. New York city experienced a thirteen foot tidal surge which is a record. It flooded the subways. I saw a photo of the Statue of Liberty with water halfway up its base, and the island it stands on completely under water.

Water sweeps buildings off their foundations. The wind, except in the case of tornadoes does not produce this kind of devastation. In the case of healthy trees, they can withstand hurricane force winds with little trouble, unless the ground is soaked from the rain. The soggy ground provides much less support, and trees get uprooted rather than being snapped by the wind.

[Jigfishn10]

We're all fine. While we lost a few dead and dying, ant infested trees around the house we didn't lose power, though many sections in town and the surrounding communities did.

The wife and I had been at our younger daughter's home in GA for five weeks. She had surgery in September, so we went down to help out around the house while she got back on her feet, and the all clear from her doc to resume normal activities. We left about one-thirty Saturday afternoon, and arrived home on Sunday morning, in time for the excitement on Monday.

Thanks for thinking of us.

edit: From the time we got on I-40 east from I-75 and then north onto I-81, most of the traffic was countless utility vehicles from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and other states heading toward their staging destinations in the areas most likely to be affected by the storm. Boom trucks, trucks for installing power poles, generators, trucks with miscellaneous equipment, and pickup trucks formed convoys headed to the Northeast.

Some of the crews working around our town were from Alabama.

I thought you got back from GA a couple of weeks ago, sorry about that Rhino...Glad all is well!

[tomustang]

One bright side, at least I can use all this romney/obama mail for kindling

[tomustang]

Luckily got power back, I know others are not that fortunate and I wish them the best

[Long Mike]

I heard on the evening news that there are over six million people without power.

[SirSnookalot]

Considering the short period of time inroads are being made on getting the hard it areas back to normalcy. Power, little by little is being restored, crews and equipment from as far away as California will be assisting with the aid of military planes. I understand the NJ turnpike is open and limited train and subway service in NYC are starting back up. IMO the leadership, federal, state and local are working together, high marks to all that are involved.