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Hurricane Sandy

Scarfwynaut said:
I'm watching all these news videos, and I am wondering... why the hell do people live on the coast? Not only does it cost a ton, but at least once in your life time a hurricane is going to come. I can understand living close to he coast, but these people have their fucking houses on the shoreline. What did they think would happen? It just seems like a terrible investment for a home.
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All the things that people said above on the previous page are true. If you want to live on coast but don't want to take the risk of a hurricane or tsunami, you should live on Brazil.
 
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shot of the devastating impact on NYC....unbelievable...

and before the storm hit....

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I'm on the northern shore of Lake Ontario, and we're getting the very edges of the system that's merged with Sandy (it's actually not technically a hurricane anymore. Not that it's lost strength, but now it's what's called "post-tropical"). We're getting some pretty steady winds here and we've been having the power flicker all day long (but the power system here is fickle on a normal day anyway so meh).

Interesting thing is that Sandy, or what's left of it, is going to come screaming right down my alley over the next day or two, and while it'll probably weaken it'll be very interesting to watch it develop.

Assuming I don't lose power for 2 days or something that is.

Anyway, hope everyone in NY and NJ are alright, seeing as it's just made landfall there over the past few hours. Let's hope you don't wake up to a post apocalyptic wasteland tomorrow eh?

EDIT: LOL Faint you troll. That second image has been circulating on facebook, mom showed it to me this morning. It's funny, seeing as the Day After Tomorrow isn't even an old film and it was a BIG one too... yet people are still falling for pictures from it!
 
Jimera0 said:
EDIT: LOL Faint you troll. That second image has been circulating on facebook, mom showed it to me this morning. It's funny, seeing as the Day After Tomorrow isn't even an old film and it was a BIG one too... yet people are still falling for pictures from it!
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I saw this picture on facebook, and ask to my self why people believe that it's from Sandy. Aren't they noticing the motorboat? A motorboat can never navigate with a hurricane around *.*
 
Dark Fallen Angel said:
I saw this picture on facebook, and ask to my self why people believe that it's from Sandy. Aren't they noticing the motorboat? A motorboat can never navigate with a hurricane around *.*
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The first thing I noticed is how hilariously undersized the system is... and more importantly, the fact it's coming at NY from INLAND. Not only is it way, way too small, but it's also coming from the complete opposite direction it should be. The real Hurricane Sandy looks like grey skies filled with rain and wind. You can't see the structure of it from the ground, it's just way too freakin' big.
 
I like how in the day after tomorrow movie, the height of the wave that crashed over the statue of liberty would of completely inundated the city. The people that made the movie did not take into account how fucking tall the think is. If I am not mistaken the wave needed to cover the city like in the movie would be barely over the height of the star base.

BTW, we have our first verified death of a man in NYC being crushed by a tree in Queens.
 
Not sure how bad everyone else got it but two gigantic trees were uprooted on my property but miraculously didn't hit anything important (if they fell in ANY other direction they would have gone through someone's house). My basement is literally flooded up to the ceiling and then first floor took a kind of hard hit but my house layout is kind of weird so the first floor only takes up 1/3rd of the house.

My street is still kind of a river but the tide is going down for now
 
I go to Rutgers in NJ (one of the biggest schools in the northeast) and we completely lost power last night at around 7:40. As of today, power is still out, two of the four campuses still have water, and the other two campuses are being evacuated to Busch (where I live). I fortunately managed to find a way home today, so I have power, Wi-Fi, food, and light. Will be heading back tomorrow morning - not sure if power will be back up by then, though.

TCNJ has cancelled classes for the entire week - I'm kinda hoping we do the same.
 
This video was pretty cool, even if the commentary was a bit over the top. I'd probably be flipping my shit too if trees started falling around my house!


To anyone that might be reading this that lives near the coast, just because it's stopped raining doesn't mean it's safe. There's supposed to be a large tide tonight, and flooded areas all always dangerous for a variety of reasons.


I could sit here and repost these all, but reddit has a bunch of pictures taken from the storm. These two are particularly interesting.
 
WELP, the two amusement piers I did electrical work on during the summers are both gone. RIP Casino Pier, RIP Funtown Pier.

Long Beach Island and the other barrier islands on New Jersey basically got obliterated.
 
I'm also in Rutgers in Central NJ. I was one of the unlucky campuses, and am currently sitting in another campus's lounge (Livingston). We'll probably be here for the next two to three days, which sucks.

Its really bad here though. Its not even flooding, its just all wind. I had to work last night and this morning/afternoon because I work in the dining hall so we obviously couldn't close. It was crazy, although holy CRAP are people stupid for coming in in the middle of a fucking hurricane for ICE CREAM
 
double posting to bring this up:

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Are you ready to have your hurrication crapped on, New Yorkers?

The subways, which are now full of the most disgusting rat crap and rusty scissors water you could possibly imagine, won’t likely be fully restored to pre-Sandy conditions for weeks. Maybe months. And possibly years.

That bummer of a revelation comes courtesy of The Atlantic Cities’ Eric Jaffe, who cites an analysis conducted this fall that analyzed the effects of a once-in-100 year storm event on New York’s 108-year-old subway system. The prognosis? Grim.

"Based on their models, Jacob and colleagues wrote that a 100-year-storm could leave roughly 1 billion gallons of water to be pumped from the city’s network of subway tunnels. (To give you an idea of scale, that’s equal to the average daily consumption of drinking water in the city.) If all 14 tunnels flooded, it would take about 5 days to pump each one clear, according to the report. However, that’s the best-case scenario; a week per tunnel is more likely.

Immediate flood-clearing isn’t the only concern. As Ted Mann writes for the Wall Street Journal, salt water is likely to have considerable residual effects on the aging subway system. Jacob and colleagues write that equipment damaged by brackish water will at least require time to clean and could also require time for replacement. In some cases, when the parts are too old and no longer in production, it could require a completely new infrastructure."

Is it just me, or does it sound a lot like New York City is about to experience a bike boom of unprecedented magnitude? Better buy a stronger lock or learn how to ride on other peoples’ handlebars.

While he’s been cautious about getting too specific about timetables, Mayor Bloomberg has estimated that it will take at least 4-5 days before service is partially restored. And when they do open, stations will smell a lot less like piping hot pee and a lot more like Mother Nature’s barf.
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Seriously though, this means that the entire NYC subway system will take weeks - if not months - to clean up. Thanksgiving is less than a month away. Christmas in less than two. While some New Yorkers may adapt, how is the busiest city in the world going to fare during the two biggest holidays in the country? Mayan apocalyptic theory may prove itself right just because NYC may cease functioning completely.
 
Jebus McAzn said:
Seriously though, this means that the entire NYC subway system will take weeks - if not months - to clean up. Thanksgiving is less than a month away. Christmas in less than two. While some New Yorkers may adapt, how is the busiest city in the world going to fare during the two biggest holidays in the country? Mayan apocalyptic theory may prove itself right just because NYC may cease functioning completely.
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this study, conducted in 2011, accounted for a storm of this magnitude and states that it will take 2-3 weeks to get back to 90% transit efficacy, but up to 2 years to get to "full revenue service".

bloomberg has also stated it'll be less than a week before the subways are back up period, which i am going to guess won't be just one or two lines.
 
Jebus McAzn said:
Mayan apocalyptic theory may prove itself right just because NYC may cease functioning completely.
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The NYSE hasn't been closed for this long in over 100 years. But I really hope you're joking about the whole Mayan Calendar thing
1. Implimenting the leap year means that we are already past December 2012
2. The Mayans are all dead so they can't continue production of a calendar. But that doesn't actually matter, see 3.
3. The Mayan calendar is cyclical
4. The Mayans said the planets would allign and thus tear earth in half in 1994. The earth didn't tear in half at any point in time including 1994
It seems like it's prime time to start hiring a lot of Mexicans manual laborers to clean that shit up

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Jebus McAzn said:
i think it's an unspoken rule that any reference to the mayan calendar is not serious
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I think you overestimate the intelligence of the average person on the Internet
 
Actually, we've all been living in the Matrix since Y2K.

On a more serious note, I heard that multiple hospitals had to be evacuated because emergency generators failed, and the Coney Island Hospital caught fire for a while. Does anyone have any further news on any of that?
 
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