Hurricane Sandy
 

Hi all. New Jersey here. Please send your goodbyes by about 2:00pm today because I'm going to be in a wind tunnel by then. Any other east coast brothers and sisters with me in this? Hopefully everybody including myself stays safe. I'm about 20 minutes from NYC by the way. I should be fine pending a tree doesn't come through my roof.

Bring it on Sandy! You can shove your winds and rain up your ass! It's beer time.

Hope everyone is able to get to safety! Good luck everyone!

The hatches are battened down here in Philly too. Just keeping my fingers crossed that my efforts at sealing up leaks over the weekend hold up.

My girlfriend's whole family is about 30 minutes off the coast of Norwalk and they're all generator'd up for this bitch. **** Sandy, they gon be aight.

Nothing but wind and rain in my neck of the woods, so far.
But if disaster strikes, I'm prepared...

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I wish you all good luck, hopefully your domiciles do not take on any damage, and if they do hopefully somebody else pays to fix it.

Yes, stay safe East Coasters. They're talking about shutting down Lake Shore Drive because of 30 ft swells in Lake Michigan. wutdahell?

Yep were expecting to be by very hard here too based on the direction the storm will be traveling in. It's already starting with the heavy rain right now and they're predicting 90 - 100 mph winds for the Toronto area. We're at my parents house right now and will stay for the next couple of days, but the problem is that the house is in a low valley that floods really fast, and it's a 4 level back-split (no distinction between two levels), so I imagine if the basement floods then its game over. At least there is a decently sized finished attic (and my mom said that was a waste of time and money, lol)

**** I wanna surf that now.

I've already lived through one real hurricane, so Mother Nature can ****ing BRING IT.

Looks like it'll be going through south east PA, then headed west, and curving back, literally going around my area. We're supposed to get 2-4" of rain and 35-45 MPH winds, which isn't really that bad. We'll probably lose power, unfortunately, but I do have my iPhone and a car charger.

Good luck to all whom this hurricane may affect. Hope everything turns out ok

Best of luck to you all, hope everyone stays safe and there's little/no property damage. Looks pretty bad on the news even now. Take care and hopefully we'll see yaz all on the other side.

I don't believe but **** it, what is there to lose? God bless yaz.
Seriously.

Whats the latest update on this?

Good luck friend and I hope you will reach to a safe place. May all people who are stuck in the hurricane find any safe place. Hey don't forget to inform us about your status.

Goodluck guys, I've been checking out the photos of the storm and it looks terribly frightening! Please no one be stupid! Drink up I say, you've got to ride it out in style!

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Hope everyone affected is keeping safe and well. We are OK in our neighborhood, aside from flooding about ankle-deep in areas and high wind gusts. Unfortunately, for just about everyone else in NYC south of 39th Street to the Battery there is a complete power outage. Large parts of the Rockaways are under six feet of water -- same for sections of Long Island. Massive flooding into the subway system and tunnels. NYU Medical Center is totally without power due to the failure of a backup generator, and has been evacuated. Bellevue Hospital as of about two hours ago reported its generator had only about one hour's left of fuel and it was running low on oxygen.

Guys, if you're in a position to, please check in and let us know you all made it through. Frightening news coming through from CNN; wanna check you're all ok?

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Wish luck and hope to all you New Yorkers. Be safe.

We have reports here all over the news as well. Looks progressively disastrous. Incredibly terrifying. :/

It didn't end up hitting us very hard. A few small leaks in my house and no power loss, not nearly as bad as Irene last year. The only bad part is that the rivers have flooded somewhat and the rain is supposed to continue until the end of the week so they may get worse. I live on high ground so it wouldn't directly effect me but it might make getting to work difficult.

Ha!

Surfs Up!

Some real good pics in here:

Hurricane Sandy - Slideshows and Picture Stories - NBCNews.com

Me neither. For people not on the coast, it was basically a weak hurricane. Even on the coast, flooding was bad, but not as bad as some of the more powerful hurricanes. The real problem is just how ****ing big it is; so places who normally never really have to deal with this sorta thing are getting hit.

Haha, exactly. We don't get hurricanes here... we're used to tornadoes!

So last night, the screen door at the front entrance got blown off, we have no idea where is is now. The power transformer on the light post blew up, so we had no power at all until pretty much just now, and the front window of the house literally blew inwards, out of it's frame - causing rain to pour into the front room. Yikes.

Is there any part of the USA that isn't affected by either tornados, hurricanes, volcanoes or earthquakes?

Here, in Virginia, we got hit yesterday. It was pretty bad, with winds right around 65 MPH, and around 8 inches of rain. I live right near the water on the East Coast, so there was a lot of flooding.

Depends what you mean by "affected by" I guess. For example, where I live is very rarely heavily impacted by any of those things.

The point I was making, is that the USA has so many freak weather ocurrences in relation to Europe. So we could say that the inland areas of the North East are less likely to be heavily impacted in relation to other areas of the country.

I guess. The reality though is that the only part of the country that's really regularly impacted any of the things you mentioned is the gulf coast area, which gets hit hard by hurricanes a lot. Tornadoes happen in the midwest and plains but their impact is usually pretty confined. Earthquakes happen on the west coast but the really bad ones don't happen very often. And volcanoes are extremely rare and only happen in a few isolated parts of the country.

According to BBC, here's how Sandy may have affected Europe:

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Some places are not as affected as other places, at least in Canada. Out west in BC, they're on a fault line so they're more likely to get earth quakes. Much of Ontario and the Prairies in the midwest get tornadoes but the impact of tornadoes is not as widespread, and the Atlantic provinces on the coast get hurricanes and the remnants of hurricanes that travel up the coast. There's also a risk of ice storms and severe snow storms and blizzards in the more northern parts. As far as I know, there are no active volcanoes in Canada.

I'm jealous, we only have flooding.

I'm a good couple hours out of the range of this thing. The worst we'll get is a week of rain and wind. Good luck to everyone affected by this.

I've been watching it on the news for the first time and its shocking and sad to see just how many people have died.

I was hoping to not go to school at all this week, but it didn't happen. We already don't go to school Friday, so we've just gotta go tomorrow (2 Hour Delay), and Thursday. Virginia dodged a big bullet. We could've got hit a lot worse. Anybody got any storm pictures? (No nude pictures of Sandy now :D)

Engine, I don't understand that picture.
Are they saying the storm is as big as Europe, or that if it was over here Paris would be history? I don't think we've been affected --- few high winds, nothing special, and we often get the "tail end" of hurricanes and such, so I'm a little mystified. Have I missed the point totally? :confused:

I think that image is just to demonstrate the size of the storm to Europeans.

Well I noticed nothing anyways.

Since Wall Street was shut down, they need to show the affected in the area (your region of the globe) the scope of it from their perspective.