Perfect Storm possibly brewing...

[4aprice]

Looks like land fall is/was down in Cape May County, Ocean City area. The heavy rain appears to be to the southwest of the center so looks like NNJ getting off easy. Gov Christie on TV reaming some Atlantic City official who did not evacuate and is now cut off from the main land. Oops. Leaves gone here but pics of S Jersey and LI show alot of foliage still there.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[thetrailboss]

Looks like land fall is/was down in Cape May County, Ocean City area. The heavy rain appears to be to the southwest of the center so looks like NNJ getting off easy. Gov Christie on TV reaming some Atlantic City official who did not evacuate and is now cut off from the main land. Oops. Leaves gone here but pics of S Jersey and LI show alot of foliage still there.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

Someone playing politics with a storm during an election year? No way!

 

[ScottySkis]

Someone playing politics with a storm during an election year? No way!

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He not up for election this year.

 

[thetrailboss]

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He not up for election this year.

How about said mayor?

 

[BenedictGomez]

How about said mayor?

Doubtful it was politically motivated, Christie reams pre-schoolers out if they screw up. Personally I find it refreshing.

 

[BenedictGomez]

"HURRICANE SANDY'S DEVASTATION IMMINENT"

Seriously, Weather .com?

Could you POSSIBLY go with a more hysterical, exaggerated, panic-indusing headline?

How about, "HURRICANE SANDY WILL KILL EVERYONE IN ITS' PATH"?

I think that would be about all they could run with that would be worse.

 

[core2]

Caught this live on DC news this morning. HURRICANE HORSE!

 

[Huck_It_Baby]

"HURRICANE SANDY'S DEVASTATION IMMINENT"

Seriously, Weather .com?

Could you POSSIBLY go with a more hysterical, exaggerated, panic-indusing headline?

How about, "HURRICANE SANDY WILL KILL EVERYONE IN ITS' PATH"?

I think that would be about all they could run with that would be worse.

Seriously I get so annoyed with this crap.

 

[millerm277]

"HURRICANE SANDY'S DEVASTATION IMMINENT"

Seriously, Weather .com?

Could you POSSIBLY go with a more hysterical, exaggerated, panic-indusing headline?

How about, "HURRICANE SANDY WILL KILL EVERYONE IN ITS' PATH"?

I think that would be about all they could run with that would be worse.

Uh, that's pretty much the case though. Go take a look at the footage from any of the NJ coast today, there's buildings washing away.

Lower Manhattan is currently flooding, and is almost certainly going to get into the subways....which is likely to take months to rebuild the entire subway system in Lower Manhattan.

 

[BenedictGomez]

Here's what a NJ meteorologist I follow on Twitter who is following that situation just said about Christie and the AC mayor.

Assuming this Mets story pans out, certainly sounds like Christie was in the right.

Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey gave an update on his state which is dealing with landfalling Hurricane Sandy at this hour. Christie blasted Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford for putting his people in harm's way. Despite the Governor's order to evacuate all barrier islands including Atlantic City, Langford instead told his people to stay in the city and head to shelters dangerously close to water. Currently, one such shelter is flooding and it is too dangerous to send rescue crews out to rescue those stuck there.

Because of Lanford's inaction and what Christie calls "lack of leadership", the people in his city may die. What are your thoughts on this situation?

Christie hopes to be able to send federal search/rescue crews into the city as soon as possible in the morning when the worst of the storm moves on. The number of people stuck and potentially drowning in the shelters is unknown.

 

[Nick]

Caught this live on DC news this morning. HURRICANE HORSE!

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That's awesome, and PS I'm glad you joined the forum for this post. It was worth it

 

[steamboat1]

I hope you guys are safe & secure in your little inland homes. Let me just tell you down here in NYC near the water this is some serious shit & it's not getting any better. Neighborhoods are flooding, just when you think the winds couldn't get any stronger they are. High tide is still not for another 1/2 hour (approx. 9pm).

This is looking from across the street at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn from the old Lundy's restaurant. As you can see it's still daylight when this shot was taken. High tide is hours off.

 

[ERJ-145CA]

Uh, that's pretty much the case though. Go take a look at the footage from any of the NJ coast today, there's buildings washing away.

Lower Manhattan is currently flooding, and is almost certainly going to get into the subways....which is likely to take months to rebuild the entire subway system in Lower Manhattan.

Here's my favorite barrier island - LBI NJ

Makes me sad.

I'm at work in Memphis but worried about my family in Jersey (10 minutes from Mountain Creek). Power is out but I already resigned myself to losing all the stuff in the fridge and freezer. I'll be happy as long as no trees fall on the house.

 

[ScottySkis]

I hope you guys are safe & secure in your little inland homes. Let me just tell you down here in NYC near the water this is some serious shit & it's not getting any better. Neighborhoods are flooding, just when you think the winds couldn't get any stronger they are. High tide is still not for another 1/2 hour (approx. 9pm).

This is looking from across the street at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn from the old Lundy's restaurant. As you can see it's still daylight when this shot was taken. High tide is hours off.

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Who said subway trains will be down for months?

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[〽❄❅]

WTF, we're getting ripped off, West Virginia is getting 1', 2', 3' of snow from this!

 

[drjeff]

Scary stuff from reports going on in NYC right now. Still rising water in Western Long Island Sound heading towards NYC too My wife's business partner and her husband at at their beach house in Waterford, CT - water is almost at their back door which is about 10 feet above usual high tide levels and the wind is apparently just shifting to a more of an onshore direction keeping the water in the Sound

I'm feeling very fortunate that all I've had at my house today is a few flickers of the power

 

[BenedictGomez]

Hoboken PATH getting seriously messed up

This looks like an end-of-world scene from a Hollywood movie.

 

[ALLSKIING]

My fence is all blown out a bunch of trees are down and they took out lines connected to my house...Thats what I can see in the dark Im sure there is more...Thank god for the generator hard wired into the house.

 

[BenedictGomez]

This one is so amazing I would have thought it was Photoshopped if I didn't know what's going on.

This shot is taken southbound on the FDR drive on the LES.

 

[ScottySkis]

Hope NYC people are okay?

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