Posted on 10/28/2012 11:54:10 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/radial_search.php?storm=at3
This is from what i think is a bouy close to the center of the storm. Wind speed 39G48 not bad although 26 ft waves for 13 seconds is batten down the hatches stuff. So if it heads W with these numbers what will winds be be at land fall?
Is the storm hyped up?
Yes. All weather news is hyped up by those who need to be considered necessary in order to collect their paychecks.
If you live from below Virginia through New England, and west toward Ohio, includes the great lakes area, prepare for no power for two weeks.
New York City - Almost 400,000, area of the Battery, required evacuation.
To ignore this storm, is to devalue your life.
Two thousand power workers in other states are headed that direction.
This storm has very low pressure which continues to drop and means it is very strong and very large. It’s even a little lower pressure than Ike and that was a huge low pressure storm. I went through Ike and thought it would never stop - it went on for hours and hours.
It's not hyped. The winds, because of structure, are not near the center. They are removed to the NE and SW. The pressure is low and will get lower. The issue, however, is sustained strong winds over an area. This will do 2 things: Power outages and surge. The angle of approach...the strong winds...will combine to give massive surge over NJ and NY. Add heavy rain on top of that.
I've never seen anything like it...a storm this big and headed WNW (eventually) towards the coast. It's once in a lifetime to see this sort of setup.
“Has an election date ever been extended due to weather?”
No.
I have to ask can’t anyone look a weather map and get the basics? Can’t anyone who believes that everything the ‘Lamestream’ say is hype or at least suspect just do a bit of research and learn for themselves? You don’t need a degree in meteorology the mechanics of this storm is easy enough that anyone with a middle school grasp of basic meteorology should be able to understand it’s impact.
Instead of people doing a bit of research which is so easy with today’s internet, they go off and proclaim things and make statements with no standing in fact.
But worse than that are the people who didn’t even tried to educate themselves as to the facts instantly proclaimed this hurricane as fake from the moment it formed.
We seem to have a lot of ‘ODS’ here on FR. Yes ‘Bama’ is horrible, yes he HAS GOT TO GO, but these people you act like he either conjurered up the storm or the whole thing is some Machiavellian plot out of a bad suspense novel. LIFE goes on, things happen. The storm doesn’t know or care that it’s election time or what ‘BAMA’ has done to this country.
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of people who believed so much that the hurricane is just some leftist plot that they are caught unprepared for the storm and dying as a result of it crying out “It’s Obama’s fault” with their last breath!
Some seem to have reached a point where if they go to the doctor next week and he tells them that they have cancer it will be Obama’s fault! Or if they have a flat tire on the way to work next week it will be Obama’s fault! If you step on a crack and break your mother’s back it will be Obama’s fault!
To me this is the talk, methods and the mindset of the leftist. Its the same shill BS they spewed against George Bush. I thought we are better than that. I know we should be better than that. I know we can be better than that.
GOD BLESS YOU NELSON111! For once a voice of sanity and reason on one of these threads!
Maryland Governor O’Malley (D) has cancelled early voting for Monday, due to storm. Can’t Maryland citizens determine to stay inside on their own?
Coastal storms are always hyped up but It does look like a bad one.
so that is why Bloomberg called for an evacuation
after he said “No Need”
Flooding from surges cause huge damage. Nothing like salt water, mud and debris running through the trees, bushes, grass, buildings and infrastructure. It takes a long time to recover from the mess and it will take longer in an area of high population density. For some people, recovery is an extremely long and frustrating experience. :(
So, even if the winds are not horrible (thank goodness if that is the case), the flooding will be bad enough.
No way would I stick around to see what happens, especially with Department of Homeland InSecurity (FEMA) handling the recovery in an official emergency situation and that many residents involved in a disaster. Worse, in the cold weather of the Northeast!
I would be in a hotel or at one of my sister’s houses, far away from the mess and come back after I saw what was what. I would not go to a FEMA shelter. It will be a long stay if the flooding is bad because they don’t let people back in until it’s ready for civilization again. Some people get angry and nutty especially when everything is out of their control and they think of themselves as the dependents of sugar daddy government.
This storm looks like Ike.
Cool,Thanks for yer expertise,guess I wont be taking the Whaler out this eve.
When i was in the CG I used to BS with the NOAA guys that did the weather bouys and it was interesting.
I have no idea if its hyped..but it is opening up alot of questions for me.
For starters, NYC has issued evacuation orders. What is the protocol for evacuees and voting? I assume NY will go Blue no matter what, so it won’t really matter...
...but I hope NY doesn’t make a declaration that sets a precedent for, say, Philadelphia. And, it is possible that parts of many states in the region (to include VA and NH) will be without power in the week leading up to election day.
Remember, NYC delayed the mayoral primary, because of September 11.
And I remember some judge in MO trying to keep the polls open extra long in St Louis once.
I would love for the RNC to make an announcement, encouraging people to vote early, and to declare that its position will be any vote after poll closing on election day should not be counted, no matter what happens. Of course, they would just be accused of voter suppression.
Hey look everyone,
Enough talk of buoys. This is a serious emergency and the dog whistles need to stop right now.
Rhode Island has particular concerns for Narragansett Bay, the surges and moontides:
http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2012/10/ri-officials-prepare-for-sandy-effects-on-upper-narragansett-bay.html
R.I. officials prepare for Sandy effects on Upper Narragansett Bay
October 28, 2012 1:50 pm
By Kate Bramson
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Emergency-management officials are “very concerned” about the potential storm surge in Upper Narragansett Bay from Hurricane Sandy and the effects it could have on Cranston, East Providence and Providence, according to Christine Hunsinger, Governor Chafee’s spokeswoman.
They’re particularly concerned because of the anticipated duration of Sandy here in Rhode Island, as well as because of the storm’s width.
Typically, hurricanes move through a region faster than this storm is expected to move, Hunsinger said. But Sandy is expected to stay in Rhode Island through at least two high-tide cycles and during the full moon on Monday night, which means the tides will be higher than usual anyway.
“It’s kind of a triple whammy,” Hunsinger said.
High tides on Monday are between 7:48 a.m. on Block Island and 8:42 a.m. at Weekapaug Point. Then, Monday evening, high tides return during the 8 to 9 p.m. hour, according to AccuWeather.com reports.
Those high tides push the water up Narragansett Bay, Hunsinger said. Then, the storm will continue to push water up the Bay and may not allow the waters to flow back out of the Bay before the next high tide rolls in, she said. And even by the third high tide, Tuesday morning, the storm may not have subsided and thus, there could be a third push of water up the Bay.
But what makes this so unusual is that the storm is expected to gain energy from the high-latitude influences starting tomorrow. No, it doesn't mean the winds are going to gain much strength but it means the storm will not be "dying out" anytime soon.
“Is the storm hyped up?”
Could Sandy turn out to be the “Obama of hurricanes?”
““Has an election date ever been extended due to weather?”
No.”
...but NYC postponed a primary due to September 11th.
I hope nobody gets any crazy ideas about delaying this election.
If the government says it will be bad, they know it wont be bad.
If the government says it wont be bad, they know it will be bad.
The reason they do this is because they do not have even 1/10 the resources needed to handle a major disaster. They are beyond broke. They are heavily in debt. So they underplay major destruction and overplay minor destruction. At least that is the way our crony government has been operating lately.
I have to ask can’t anyone look a weather map and get the basics?
Not me nope to stupid,I chose to look at the stats on a bouy somewhere around 32N71W..gesh what bug crawled up yer butt.
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