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Hurricane SANDY Public Advisory
NOAA via Drudge ^ | 500 PM EDT SUN OCT 28 2012 | National Weather Service

Posted on 10/28/2012 3:07:37 PM PDT by SubMareener

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To: SubMareener
You can see it comin' a mile away... and I'm not referring to the storm "Sandy"

I'm referring to the MSM who will exaggerate Sandy for as long as possible in order to keep Benghazi OUT of the NEWS.

Thank you to our ALWAYS reliable MSM. BASTARDS!!! /sarc

41 posted on 10/28/2012 5:36:05 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: NELSON111

Nope didn’t have 12’ storm surge, that’d be ugly. We’re at about 12 feet above sea level and are 2 miles from the Gulf and 2 miles from the Bay (usually have more problems with surge in the Bay than surge from the Gulf.) But that’s the explanation I was looking for...I couldn’t figure out why Cat 1 was posing such danger.

Plus we live on a peninsula on a peninsula (Tampa Bay) and when water invades our peninsula and floods, it quickly drains off. That won’t be happening in that area.


42 posted on 10/28/2012 5:48:09 PM PDT by memyselfandi59
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To: memyselfandi59
Tampa? Wow. Talking about living in a place where your days are numbered.

One of these days, once of these October storms are gonna come out of the Caribbean and hit there.

You guys are VERY susceptible to surge.

43 posted on 10/28/2012 6:08:58 PM PDT by NELSON111
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To: VideoDoctor

Fox News is doing them both.


44 posted on 10/28/2012 6:33:41 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: NELSON111

I always wanted to live on Nantucket. I guess they’re in for a wild ride. :(


45 posted on 10/28/2012 7:03:00 PM PDT by bannie ("The gov't that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.")
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To: memyselfandi59

Hurrican Ike hit Louisville with NO RAIN.. just several hours of 50-75 mph winds, and knocked out power to nearly 70% of the city. Power was out for MANY people for almost a week.

We call it, the ‘rainless hurricane’.


46 posted on 10/28/2012 7:07:13 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them)
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To: eyedigress

Even if she *is* 4’11”.


47 posted on 10/28/2012 7:11:46 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: nascarnation
My favorite is watching some hyperventilating idiot on the PMSNBC Weather Channel wearing mega-storm gear doing a live report and a family dressed in shorts and t-shirts casually saunters by in the background.

Yes. Alleged reporters Drama Queens.

The classic was coverage of flooding years ago when the female reporting was spouting off live while in a row boat. Right at the end of her spiel, two walked by in boots. LMAO!

48 posted on 10/28/2012 7:17:54 PM PDT by QT3.14 (November 6: Remember BENGHAZI!!)
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To: NELSON111

I always wanted to live on Nantucket. I guess they’re in for a wild ride. :(


49 posted on 10/28/2012 7:36:15 PM PDT by bannie ("The gov't that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.")
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To: bannie

I always wanted to live on Nantucket because they have all the best limericks.


50 posted on 10/28/2012 7:40:16 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: Carry me back

Yeah,it sounds like a big, bad scenario and the storm surge sounds awful. We live on a peninsula, and they have done simulations where storm surge could literally breech the peninsula make it impossible to get from the southern part of the county to the northern part. But they’re always quick to mention that water drains off quickly back into the Bay and the Gulf. Storm surge flooding in the area affected by Sandy has nowhere to go once flooded.

We’re so used to being without power, not just from hurricanes, but from frequent storms we have a generator that keeps our food frozen and allows us to install and run a window AC that we keep for emergencies, in one room. We keep a store of gas, but if power was out for 3 weeks, that would be the problem, getting more gas. In an urban metropolitan scenario where folks live in high rises, I can’t imagine how they’d handle weeks without power.

I think building codes in Florida are pretty strict, at least since Andrew we use the Miami Dade codes, so wind seems to do less damage to buildings than it did when we had a storm blow through when I was a kid. I’m a native Floridian, 6th generation, our kids are 7th generation and still live here, and their kids are 8th generation...we’re a rare breed :)

That last TS we had (Debby) was slow moving, and though it didn’t do much damage to buildings (except flooding) from water overflowing the Bay and about 17 inches of rain, it sort of stalled offshore and pounded the beaches, and when it was gone, 1/2 of the width of many beaches had been eroded. Slow movers do cause more damage.

Well, prayers that this one does not turn out to be as bad as they expect and people have enough sense to evacuate if they’re in harm’s way.


51 posted on 10/28/2012 7:47:34 PM PDT by memyselfandi59
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To: NELSON111
How would you compare this to Hurricane Agnes ?

By the time it hit about the same area of Southeastern PA, Delaware, Northeast Maryland, NJ it was only a tropical storm,,, made a direct hit on New York city, and this thing ? Sandy is a cat 1 maybe hitting the same area.
What made Agnes so devastating was the water.,, rain in the Susquehanna River and the Susquehanna River watershed.

Hurricane Agnes track.

52 posted on 10/28/2012 7:55:19 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: NELSON111

My daughter lives 3 blocks from the ocean in southern RI not far from Narraganset. I tried to call her tonight but no answer. How do you think that part of the coast will fare?


53 posted on 10/28/2012 9:39:01 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah
>>>My daughter lives 3 blocks from the ocean in southern RI not far from Narraganset. I tried to call her tonight but no answer. How do you think that part of the coast will fare?

Gusts to 65...surge to 6'. Tell them the surge in this area will be like Bob in '91.

54 posted on 10/28/2012 9:45:22 PM PDT by NELSON111
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To: NELSON111

Thank you - does the surge up to 6” mean that there will be waves on the surge, above it? (Sorry, not making sense...too late).

Maybe she’s staying with friends or relatives tonight.

I remember Bob; I was visited family in RI. Wind was 100 mph IIRC, trees were down all over the place, no electricity for a week at least. House was not near the ocean or any creeks thankfully.


55 posted on 10/29/2012 12:12:13 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: NELSON111; eyedigress

This dude talks like an asshole


56 posted on 10/29/2012 4:27:32 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.u)
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To: SamAdams76
This is just your basis wind-driven rainstorm that we see in the Northeast all the time.

???

I'd be safer in a beach chair on the Atlantic City boardwalk right now then I would be on the Garden State Parkway.

Oh really? The last report that I read was that there is very little, if any, of the boardwalk left. Most of it is floating through the downtown streets.

57 posted on 10/29/2012 1:44:30 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SamAdams76
This is just your basis wind-driven rainstorm that we see in the Northeast all the time.

???

I'd be safer in a beach chair on the Atlantic City boardwalk right now then I would be on the Garden State Parkway.

Oh really? The last report that I read was that there is very little, if any, of the boardwalk left. Most of it is floating through the downtown streets.


58 posted on 10/29/2012 1:48:27 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Cyber Liberty
I always wanted to live on Nantucket because they have all the best limericks


             

59 posted on 10/29/2012 1:51:56 PM PDT by tomkat
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