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hurricane in nyc=raining hard
..mayor and them always overdue it with the emergency shutdown shit...6am and still no fucking rain..the people near shorelines with houses will feel the effects but everybody else zzzzzzzzzz drowzy rain feel...i kno a lot of people lost bread last nite cause they had to cancel parties not cause of the rain but cause the mayor shut down da trains..asshole
..mayor and them always overdue it with the emergency shutdown shit...6am and still no fucking rain..the people near shorelines with houses will feel the effects but everybody else zzzzzzzzzz drowzy rain feel...i kno a lot of people lost bread last nite cause they had to cancel parties not cause of the rain but cause the mayor shut down da trains..asshole
hurricane in nyc=raining hard
yea..today was an unnecessary day off from work..I don't think its gonna be that bad..
hurricane in nyc=raining hard
This one's gonna be worse than Irene but as you said, the key fact that we have such advance warning in today's world makes ALL the difference, there are famous videos when hurricanes & snowstorms completely shutdown NYC in the past but in most of those cases there was no prior knowledge as to how big those storms were gonna be, but the extent of the run on stores the last two days is RIDICULOUS!!!
Peeps acting like they're gonna be cut off from the world for the next week & what not, but mark my words it's gonna be business as usual come Wednesday morning, save for having to drive around a downed tree limb or two.
The vast majority of the 5 boros WILL NOT BE AFFECTED by this storm, essentially the whole city was shut down for a relative few down in Battery Park & the Rockaways, Long Island however is a different beast, mainly due to most of our power lines being above ground, my house had no power for over 6 days after Irene yet my parents house, which is merely 5 minutes away but in Queens, had absolutely NO PROBLEMS, and, as the OP said, it amounted to no more than a heavy rainstorm.
Oh, and it was Governor Cuomo who shutdown the MTA, not Bloomy.
Both need to remember that this is NYC, the place where, when we hear the President's coming to town we don't think of it as an honor, we think "Oh great, traffic's gonna be a nightmare!"
It's just the way we are.
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Yup, it was that Christmas storm when Bloomy was out of town (but still won't say to this day where he was) and streets were shut down/unplowed for days, and people got stranded in several different locations in the subway system.
Since then they've been in alarmist mode, has me thinking that Bloomy's on the board masquerading as lerri, alarmist supreme!
Better to be safe than sorry. This is going to be a slow creeping storm for NYC. Not the quick blast we're expecting from a usual hurricance. The Rockaways, Battery Park City, and other low-lying areas in the NY Metro area will slowly flood, especially at high tides. Hopefully, the damage will be minimal.
Give Thanks TEN.
Here holding the fort on Long Island ready to bounce to Bklyn if I have to make that move with the family.
Stay safe FAM
Here holding the fort on Long Island ready to bounce to Bklyn if I have to make that move with the family.
Stay safe FAM
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So far just winds and drizzle... like a normal rainstorm... but I'm off until Wednesday so I ain't mad. Got 360 games and the net I'm good...
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Lol, bro, it's not gonna hit till tonight, meanwhile the Nautical Mile out in Freeport is COMPLETELY underwater, even though that happens in every big storm, the difference now is what I just said, the storm isn't here yet!
Even though I feel that they shut down everything relatively early (last night as opposed to this morning) the bigger problem would've been the afternoon rush hour, which coincides with Sandy's arrival.
David Game
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you still livin' with your moms???????
Ummm, not sure but it reads to me that he said his Momz still lives here, not him.
some of y'all is the reason people die..
calling it a bust when it isn't supposed to hit until later today or tomorrow.
calling it a bust when it isn't supposed to hit until later today or tomorrow.
David Game
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David Game
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Oddyssey ~ Native New Yorker
yoooo -Freeport is CRAZY! the whole of south Freeport looks like its underwater... 5 towns, parts of Rockaway, part of Rosedale, whats it going to look like tonight?
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I Just Spent The last 36hrs helping evacuate southern Long Island
Just left Long Beach A few hours ago, shit looks like a ghost town.
I love this shit tho, Massive OT for me.
Just left Long Beach A few hours ago, shit looks like a ghost town.
I love this shit tho, Massive OT for me.
C/S^^^
everybody wanna b mad cause there's been no rain and things seem calm so far, reality if you let all those people into the city today it woulda been hell getting them out even if you closed things early. Plus no matter how hard they tried you would still have some people just leaving as Sandy was coming in, best move every body already home let them stay home and we well know about the last minute stragglers who wait to evacuate.
Coast Guard official: Hurricane Sandy 'could be bad, or it could be devastation'
(CNN) -- Pelting rains, whipping winds, mass evacuations: There is no doubt that Hurricane Sandy, by Sunday, had already made a mammoth impact on the U.S. East Coast.
And it should only get worse.
That's the consensus view, among forecasters and officials, as the Category 1 storm continued to chug northeastward parallel to the shore. Even with its eye still hundreds of miles away, those on the North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland coasts felt its wrath Sunday.
But if, as expected, it turns toward the United States early Monday morning, Sandy will have an even more direct -- and potentially calamitous -- effect on millions. Forecasters warn it will likely collide with a cold front from the West to spawn a "superstorm" that could slog along the Eastern Seaboard for days -- meaning even more wind, flooding, power outages and, with that all, potential danger.
"I'm expecting it to be really bad," Paul DiCristina Jr. told CNN affiliate NY1, after prepping his Coney Island restaurant ahead of Sandy. "We're evacuating, we know that for sure, but I'm just hoping there's a restaurant here Wednesday or Thursday."
He's not alone in his fears. The National Hurricane Center is warning of no less than a "life-threatening storm surge flooding the Mid-Atlantic coast, including Long Island and New York Harbor," all in addition to sustained winds in excess of 70 mph and even stronger gusts -- conditions that will affect millions of people.
A state-by-state breakdown of hurricane preparation efforts, impacts
"Sandy has a tremendous amount of energy," U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Steven Ratti told CNN. "It could be bad, or it could be devastation."
On Sunday alone, power was knocked out in places such as Hampton Roads, Virginia, as rough waves crashed along the coast, said Penelope Penn. Another CNN iReporter, Elizabeth Switzer, reported waves topping 12 feet further south along Carolina Beach outside Wilmington, North Carolina. And by late afternoon, floodwaters washed over roads between Dewey and Bethany beaches in Delaware, said Gov. Jack Markell, adding even more urgency for people to get out before they get trapped.
"We're seeing more flooding than you normally do, and particularly since the storm's not here," Markell said around 5 p.m.
Sandy took a toll well before its U.S. arrival, causing at least 67 deaths -- including 51 in Haiti -- as it rumbled through the Caribbean.
As of 11 p.m. Sunday, Sandy still hadn't veered toward the United States, though the National Hurricane Center said that should happen "during the next several hours." Centered 470 miles south-southeast of New York, the hurricane should make landfall late Monday in southern New Jersey and the Delmarva Peninsula, which includes Delaware and parts of Maryland and Virginia, according to the CNN Weather Unit.
One thing that makes this storm unique is not so much its 75 mph sustained winds, but the fact such hurricane-force winds extend 175 miles out from its eye. That portends to affect hundreds of miles of territory, on both sides of Sandy's eye, hit hard by destructive winds, with an even bigger swath getting tropical force-level gusts and drenching rains.
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Sandy prompted evacuation orders on New Jersey's barrier islands, in downtown Ocean City, Maryland, and in flood-prone coastal communities in southern Delaware. Low-lying areas of New York City, including Coney Island and parts of Manhattan, are being cleared out as well.
Jim Brady was among those who heeded the call, leaving his Cape May home about three blocks from the Atlantic and heading 85 miles north to his sister-in-law's house in Toms River. Packing what they can and stashing bigger valuables as high as possible, what happens next is now out of their hands as it may take days before they find out if they've skirted disaster.
"We'll just hunker down and wait for it to pass," Brady said.
Many other communities, big and small, also are bracing for the worst. The process of halting subway service in New York, the city that never sleeps, began Sunday evening. Other mass transit systems are doing the same by suspending their services Monday, including Washington's Metro service and Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority trains and buses in and around Philadelphia.
Across the bay from Brooklyn in Sea Bright, New Jersey, Yvette Cafaro pleaded on the plywood that covered up her burger restaurant, "Be kind to us Sandy." The seaside area largely dodged last year's Hurricane Irene, and Cafaro is hoping for -- but not expecting -- any more reprieves.
Keep a hurricane preparation checklist
"Everything that we've been watching on the news looks like this one will really get us," she said. "We're definitely worried about it ... Hopefully, she'll spare us."
After filling his trunk with sandbags Sunday in Cranston, Rhode Island, resident Steve Pacheco said he has done what he can by clearing Halloween decorations and other items from his yard. Still, for all his preparation, he admits Sandy makes him nervous.
"I don't want to go through this again," Pacheco told CNN affiliate WPRI.
Officials from North Carolina to Maine have been raising alarms, and taking preventive steps like the subway shut-downs, for days.
By Sunday evening, officials already had canceled classes Monday for well over 2 million public school students in districts such as New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore, while numerous universities as well as federal government offices in Washington and government offices in states like New Jersey were preemptively closed. Sandy has even managed to put the presidential election on the back burner, turning campaign plans upside down.
Then there are the travel nightmares that the storm has already, and will continue, to cause with thousands of flights called off, Amtrak train runs scuttled, and hundreds of roads and highways expected to flood.
A full moon, which always brings out higher than normal tides, should exacerbate storm surge problems on Monday in coastal areas. In addition to one 12 hours earlier, high tide is scheduled for around 8:30 p.m. -- meaning parts of Delaware and New Jersey, for instance, could see significant flooding then even if Sandy has come ashore by then. Irrespective of the tides, the National Weather Service is forecasting potentially harmful storm surges of between 6 to 11 feet in New York Harbor and Long Island Sound.
"This is not a typical storm. It could very well be historic in nature and in scope and in magnitude because of the widespread anticipated power outages, flooding and potential major wind damage," Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said, speaking of his state but just as well about many others in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
"Essentially, this is a hurricane wrapped in a nor'easter."
Hurricane safety: When the lights go out
(CNN) -- Pelting rains, whipping winds, mass evacuations: There is no doubt that Hurricane Sandy, by Sunday, had already made a mammoth impact on the U.S. East Coast.
And it should only get worse.
That's the consensus view, among forecasters and officials, as the Category 1 storm continued to chug northeastward parallel to the shore. Even with its eye still hundreds of miles away, those on the North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland coasts felt its wrath Sunday.
But if, as expected, it turns toward the United States early Monday morning, Sandy will have an even more direct -- and potentially calamitous -- effect on millions. Forecasters warn it will likely collide with a cold front from the West to spawn a "superstorm" that could slog along the Eastern Seaboard for days -- meaning even more wind, flooding, power outages and, with that all, potential danger.
"I'm expecting it to be really bad," Paul DiCristina Jr. told CNN affiliate NY1, after prepping his Coney Island restaurant ahead of Sandy. "We're evacuating, we know that for sure, but I'm just hoping there's a restaurant here Wednesday or Thursday."
He's not alone in his fears. The National Hurricane Center is warning of no less than a "life-threatening storm surge flooding the Mid-Atlantic coast, including Long Island and New York Harbor," all in addition to sustained winds in excess of 70 mph and even stronger gusts -- conditions that will affect millions of people.
A state-by-state breakdown of hurricane preparation efforts, impacts
"Sandy has a tremendous amount of energy," U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Steven Ratti told CNN. "It could be bad, or it could be devastation."
On Sunday alone, power was knocked out in places such as Hampton Roads, Virginia, as rough waves crashed along the coast, said Penelope Penn. Another CNN iReporter, Elizabeth Switzer, reported waves topping 12 feet further south along Carolina Beach outside Wilmington, North Carolina. And by late afternoon, floodwaters washed over roads between Dewey and Bethany beaches in Delaware, said Gov. Jack Markell, adding even more urgency for people to get out before they get trapped.
"We're seeing more flooding than you normally do, and particularly since the storm's not here," Markell said around 5 p.m.
Sandy took a toll well before its U.S. arrival, causing at least 67 deaths -- including 51 in Haiti -- as it rumbled through the Caribbean.
As of 11 p.m. Sunday, Sandy still hadn't veered toward the United States, though the National Hurricane Center said that should happen "during the next several hours." Centered 470 miles south-southeast of New York, the hurricane should make landfall late Monday in southern New Jersey and the Delmarva Peninsula, which includes Delaware and parts of Maryland and Virginia, according to the CNN Weather Unit.
One thing that makes this storm unique is not so much its 75 mph sustained winds, but the fact such hurricane-force winds extend 175 miles out from its eye. That portends to affect hundreds of miles of territory, on both sides of Sandy's eye, hit hard by destructive winds, with an even bigger swath getting tropical force-level gusts and drenching rains.
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Sandy prompted evacuation orders on New Jersey's barrier islands, in downtown Ocean City, Maryland, and in flood-prone coastal communities in southern Delaware. Low-lying areas of New York City, including Coney Island and parts of Manhattan, are being cleared out as well.
Jim Brady was among those who heeded the call, leaving his Cape May home about three blocks from the Atlantic and heading 85 miles north to his sister-in-law's house in Toms River. Packing what they can and stashing bigger valuables as high as possible, what happens next is now out of their hands as it may take days before they find out if they've skirted disaster.
"We'll just hunker down and wait for it to pass," Brady said.
Many other communities, big and small, also are bracing for the worst. The process of halting subway service in New York, the city that never sleeps, began Sunday evening. Other mass transit systems are doing the same by suspending their services Monday, including Washington's Metro service and Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority trains and buses in and around Philadelphia.
Across the bay from Brooklyn in Sea Bright, New Jersey, Yvette Cafaro pleaded on the plywood that covered up her burger restaurant, "Be kind to us Sandy." The seaside area largely dodged last year's Hurricane Irene, and Cafaro is hoping for -- but not expecting -- any more reprieves.
Keep a hurricane preparation checklist
"Everything that we've been watching on the news looks like this one will really get us," she said. "We're definitely worried about it ... Hopefully, she'll spare us."
After filling his trunk with sandbags Sunday in Cranston, Rhode Island, resident Steve Pacheco said he has done what he can by clearing Halloween decorations and other items from his yard. Still, for all his preparation, he admits Sandy makes him nervous.
"I don't want to go through this again," Pacheco told CNN affiliate WPRI.
Officials from North Carolina to Maine have been raising alarms, and taking preventive steps like the subway shut-downs, for days.
By Sunday evening, officials already had canceled classes Monday for well over 2 million public school students in districts such as New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore, while numerous universities as well as federal government offices in Washington and government offices in states like New Jersey were preemptively closed. Sandy has even managed to put the presidential election on the back burner, turning campaign plans upside down.
Then there are the travel nightmares that the storm has already, and will continue, to cause with thousands of flights called off, Amtrak train runs scuttled, and hundreds of roads and highways expected to flood.
A full moon, which always brings out higher than normal tides, should exacerbate storm surge problems on Monday in coastal areas. In addition to one 12 hours earlier, high tide is scheduled for around 8:30 p.m. -- meaning parts of Delaware and New Jersey, for instance, could see significant flooding then even if Sandy has come ashore by then. Irrespective of the tides, the National Weather Service is forecasting potentially harmful storm surges of between 6 to 11 feet in New York Harbor and Long Island Sound.
"This is not a typical storm. It could very well be historic in nature and in scope and in magnitude because of the widespread anticipated power outages, flooding and potential major wind damage," Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said, speaking of his state but just as well about many others in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
"Essentially, this is a hurricane wrapped in a nor'easter."
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