If it destroys Wall Street....Obammy and the left will be happy.
I think it is not so much the wind velocity but the sheer amount of rain it will drop and over such a huge area and for such a long time.
If I was anywhere on the East Coast I would be preparing with an expectation of no services for a week AND a good chance of flooding in areas prone to that.
No hype. It’s not particular powerful compared to some of the category x storms we’ve seen in recent years, but it’s absolutely huge and carrying lots of water. The East coast is facing a real and imminent flooding danger.
If it shuts down the stock markets in New York, Obamama will blame the storm for that part of the economic downturn. If it shuts down the Bureau of Labor Statistics (and it probably will), there will be no unemployment statistics for the last week when a lot of major companies were announcing large layoffs.
That was my 1st thought as well. However, the only thing that concerns me is this hurricane colliding with the winter storm.
If so, our FRiends in PA are in for a boat load of trouble.
I don’t want to change your thread to Politics — but just wonderin’
Has an election date ever been extended due to weather?
It’s borderline category 1. But it will likely get assists from the other storm further out to sea and from the cold air coming in from the north because of the jet stream.
Also, with the full moon, tides will be at their highest when the surge goes by.
Is it hyped up? Sure - practically every storm that might affect our “elites” is hyped up. Is it excessively, unrealistically hyped up? We’ll know when it’s over.
Just cue up “Send in the Clowns” while they trot out the AGW crew to “explain”...
No one is talking about Benghazi. No one is talking about Romney. Everyone is watching the media, soaking in lots of Obama ads. It's all good.
Every storm these days is hyped up. However, nor’easters are the most damaging in this area. Take a look at “Ash Wednesday storm 1962.”
The wind here has been pretty steady northeast, so the water level is a little high. I am 2 blocks from the ocean. Tomorrow is full moon high tide at 7:40 - which will coincide with the peak of the storm. Put a hurricane surge at the eyewall and you could be a good 15 feet above high tide. The eye on this storm, however, does not look so well organized. If it organizes, could be bad.
Worst case is if the eyewall surge “corks” between Sandy Hook and Gateway National, then you have a following consistent northeast gale. The winds won’t be as severe as ‘92 - 90 mph sustained - but that storm didn’t have an eye. But this bitch has the potential for a sustained northeast gale. The lower Hudson valley becomes a giant toilet bowl.
This happenstance cannot be ruled out right now, so that is why Bloomberg called for an evacuation. It is the right call.
Most of us know a little bit about hurricanes, like when they hit cold air they die. Maybe as a tropical storm it could produce much rain or snow. But it is really hyped for a one.
On one side it is overhyped, though on another side, it’s appropriate. If the storm was on track to plow through the carolinas and wash Tennessee into the Atlantic, it wouldn’t be nearly as hyped. Population is lower and less concentrated, and the citizens there have more access to 4x4s, boats, chainsaws, and stores of nonperishables. Often, they’re also better armed and more familiar with their neighbors, which makes them less dependent upon government to secure their direct safety in a crisis situation
Huge storms hitting the d.c - nyc corridor in late october are unusual, and urban types are much less capable of solving their own problems (clearing debris in particular), or travelling in adverse weather without functioning public transportation or appropriate private vehicles for that terrain such as pickup trucks.
I guess by the end of the week we’ll know if the whole thing was a bunch of hype or not.
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.
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.
Coastal storms are always hyped up but It does look like a bad one.
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.