Hurricane Sandy (aka Frankenstorm)

One of the news channels showed a reporter standing by what was supposed to be an 8 foot street sign. It was only up to his waist sticking out of the sand. People did(some thousands) not pay attention about the evacuation orders and need rescuing now. It seems as if humans wait until a worst case scenario happens before doing anything. I wonder if New Orleans is actually safe at this point after their disaster. I feel so sorry for those folks. Many have said that flood insurance was too high to buy.

This is very cynical I know,but I'm sure there won't be any republicans asking the government for help. I mean,live your principles or change your mind.

 

This is the fourth day in a row that my daughters school is closed. I just got the internet and power back at work, the neighbors and surrounding buildings are all still on generators, I can hear them and it's become a normal background sound, a white noise if you will. On Monday night I counted 9 transformers exploding, several roofs being ripped apart and one taking flight, a house fire across the street, and mad debris of course. Most of the traffic lights here are still off and there are accidents every hour or so, apparently most people don't understand that downed traffic lights become four-way stop signs. Driving after dark is a nightmare now. It feels good to have the internet back on though, I haven't been able to get online or use my cell phone since Monday. Halloween trick or treating was cancelled in most of the surrounding area and even in parts of my neighborhood, but we took Sophia out anyway and there were many others, and she had a wonderful time. The storm was amazing though, I just listened to records and watched the explosions, fires, ceaseless streams of various sirens (which went on well into the morning), and things being torn apart. I do feel sorry for the people who still don't have power, and there are many. And it has been fucking COLD!!

 

Ah, there are two piers with rides in Seaside Heights. I'm getting a geography lesson from Google Maps. The larger one (Funtown) has a ferris wheel. The smaller one (Casino) is where the roller coaster broke off one corner and landed in the water. That's one of the pictures we're seeing the most on TV news.

I can't imagine having places from my youth still look the same. You're lucky. Around here, nothing is the same as it used to be. In the town where I went to high school, only one restaurant is the same as it was back then.

Isn't the water always cold there in NJ? Down here, to get warm water, you have to go south of Cape Hatteras, because of the Gulf Stream. It collides with cold water at Cape Hatteras, making violent waves even on a calm day.

When the national media covers a Southern hurricane, they always talk about it like they're in a third world country. It's almost like, thank god it didn't hit anywhere IMPORTANT. Since they think the world revolves around New York City, I wonder if now they're going to become as obsessed with big storms as we've always been.

Have you ever been in the eye of a storm? I haven't, but one time, I was close enough to see it from a distance:

http://www.dnr.sc.gov/climate/sco/Tropics/HurricaneReports/2004/hurricane_Gaston.php

I had been staying near the NC/SC state line and was hauling ass for home when the center of the tropical storm crossed the highway a few miles behind me. For a long time, we could see it coming, off to the left. I don't ever want to see anything like that again! It looked like a tornado shaft, but a thousand times bigger.

Gaston wasn't even a strong storm. It didn't do much damage. It was still much scarier in person than any picture I've ever seen.

:cheers2: I'm with you 100%. When people say they want smaller government, what they really mean is that they don't want government to help OTHER people, only themselves. Well, it doesn't work that way, as you know.

 

Washed away by the hand of God



hotwater

 

I could never be a storm chaser. My husband would like to do that. Storms are one of my fears. I give them huge respect for their power.

 

I’m just the opposite, if there’s a severe thunderstorm warning, a powerful northeaster along the coast, or we’re under a blizzard warning, I’m in my SUV looking for the shit :2thumbsup:


hotwater

 

LOL, you're fuckin nuts.

 

Same here. I was trying to get the hell out, before it was too late. The last thing I wanted was to be caught on the right side of a tropical storm (the infamous right hook) away from home, where I didn't know anybody, stuck being responsible for a condo I didn't own.

Gaston was moving slow enough that we were confident we could easily cross in front of it, and the highways were empty because the locals weren't worried. But it picked up speed that morning, as you can easily see from the spacing of the data points on the graph I linked. You can imagine how I felt when I looked out the car window and saw it coming! I just couldn't stop staring at it. I never felt so tiny.

By the time we got home, the storm was already in Virginia, headed back out to sea.

Looking back on that trip, I wish I had checked the forecast more often. A day and a half earlier, they were saying that a storm might or might not form offshore close to Savannah, and maybe come in along the Georgia-SC border. I got busy doing stuff on Ocean Isle, in Calabash, and in North Myrtle, under mostly sunny skies, and late into the night. Next thing I know, it's right on top of me! I turned on the TV that morning and saw the eye on radar, crossing highway 501.
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At least I wasn't stuck on a barrier island. I wasn't born yet when Hazel came ashore near Wilmington (1959), but I've heard the old timers talk about it a lot, and I've seen old pictures. It hit Carolina Beach and Kure Beach (pronounced curie) at high tide, as a category 4. They got the right side of the eye. Two thirds of historic Fort Fisher ended up on the bottom of the ocean, and it's still there today. A long section of the island was swept clean. Not even a single weed was left standing on the bare sand. The wind demolished the houses, and the tidal surge pushed the wreckage across the bay, all the way to the mainland. Anybody who chose to "ride it out" had no chance of survival.

Anything natural that has happened before can happen again. That's why I'll never fuck with a hurricane. I'll be gone before anybody says the word "evacuation", if I'm able.

I don't know what that means for huge coastal cities. You can't evacuate those in a reasonable amount of time. The population of New York City is equal to that of the entire state of North Carolina, and just the parts of New York City that were flooded this week have a population equal to the entire city of New Orleans.

 

Yes I have, also as children our moms would make us go play in the hurricane.

 

For me, it's probably some kind of genetic memory or something...somewhere in my family history is the story of a 12 year old girl who died in a storm and her body was found hanging in a tree.

 

See what I mean "thanks mom"

 

It’s the adrenaline rush – can’t beat it :2thumbsup:




hotwater

 

90 dead in the U.S.

Landfall at the most densely populated area of the U.S. at high tide of a full moon.

Insurance industry estimates of $30 to $50 billion in damage, most expensive next to Katrina.

aftermath in November in more northern latitude where weather is near freezing

800 mile-wide storm, 2.5 times wider than Hurricane Andrew.

4.6 million without power on east coast; 250,000 without power in Ohio

 

Hurricane Horse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTO_NsYkqOo&feature=g-logo-xit"]hurricanehorse - YouTube



Hotwater

 

that shit was weak..they shut down public transit but then again heat, cold, rain, snow, and sunshine sometimes cause delays New york, they got fucked up tho!