[Bon mots]

ALL OF YOU YANKEES WILL DIE IN HURRICANE SANDY!

Did that work?
Did I get your attention?
Good. Because that is what the MSM is trying to do.
They want to blow up this stupid CAT 1 storm as if it's a combination of Katrina, the Asian Tsunami and the 1909 San Francisco earthquake combined, to the point that it dominates the front pages of they left-wing MSM right up until the day after the Presidential election.

You see, this replaces Benghazi on the front page.

BENGHAZI, LIBYA!

You are all being manipulated into forgetting all about it.
This storm is nothing. It looks big on the map, it is being hyped in order to kill the Benghazi scandal in the week before the election.

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Remember Irene!

Irene was CAT 3

This stupid Sandy looks huge on a satellite map, but is only a CAT 1 storm for Chrissakes.

[Roccus]

It’s not so much the velocity of the wind that’s the problem, it’s the rain, direction of the wind and the duration of both.
Inland, 48 to 72 hours of heavy rain with gusts that may hit 40-60 and trees get uprooted....plus flooding.
On the shore, 48-72 hrs. of wind pushing water into the inverted “V” of NY Bight plus water being pushed down LI Sound...all mixed with moon tides...will cause a lot of flooding problems.

[ntnychik]

It isn’t the wind, it’s the fact the storm will get trapped by a cold front that’s already given us two days of rain, and a nor’easter that comes with its own water supply. Southern NY water drains south to PA, which has a long history of nasty floods when they get a little too much rain. Coastal areas also have storm surge + full moon high tides.

The wind will be enough for tree branches downing power lines. It will make nice news shots, but we’re used to that and as prepared as possible. The problem is the water, the drainage, the flooding even after the rain stops.

Unfortunately, it’s the only thing that will be on the news this week.

[FreeReign]

This stupid Sandy looks huge on a satellite map, but is only a CAT 1 storm for Chrissakes.

It's the size of the storm plus the unusual storm track that will produce a once-every-several-hundred years storm surge on a very populated coast line.

Sandy isn't Irene. Irene was a dying hurricane that was on a typical track that causes hurricanes to disintegrate.

That said, your rebuild picture is pretty funny.