Posted on 10/29/2012 7:51:38 PM PDT by Kartographer
Sandy knocked out power to at least 3.1 million people, and New York's main utility said large sections of Manhattan had been plunged into darkness by the storm. Water pressed into the island from three sides. Just before its centre reached land, the storm was stripped of hurricane status, but the distinction was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature. It still packed hurricane-force wind, and forecasters were careful to say it remained every bit as dangerous to the 50 million people in its path. As the storm closed in, it smacked the boarded-up big cities of the Northeast corridor — Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston — with stinging rain and gusts of more than 85 mph. It also converged with a cold-weather system that turned it into a superstorm, a monstrous hybrid consisting not only of rain and high wind but snow. Sandy made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, which was already mostly under water and saw a piece of its world-famous Boardwalk washed away earlier in the day.
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Any reports from western mas/Albany area ?
They seem to be pretty clear at this point.
I trust Union workers are sump pumping the citys now and the bill will be huge.
Thanks
This is the storm that will teach the Krugmans of the world about Bastiat. Shouldn’t Paul Krugman be jumping for joy about how stimulating repairing this will be to his local economy? I wish Mitt would bring up the point and its larger implications regarding government spending in general.
It is unfortunate for all the damage, but Sandy is cleaning up after the OccupyWS crowds.
view the carnage live
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/
blackouts, sharks in streets, looters killing each other for shoes...
//sarc
$10B apportioned over 25% of the US population. So if the entire country were affected with something this bad it would run us $40B, or roughly the cost of just Obama’s auto (union) bailout. Frankenstorm Sandy did just a tiny part of the damage done by Horrorcaine Barry, who’s deficit runs two Frankenstorms every week.
My thoughts are with you FRiend. I live about 20 miles west of Atlantic City but was spared any devastation. I think it’s better to be in the eye of the storm right in it’s path. You guys got it a lot worse than I did. Good luck!!!
130 died in Joplin a year or so ago, 3 times as many as Sandra.
Half a town was wiped out, wiped off. We don’t blame Obama, or global warming.
I believe you’ll find that community voting for Romney and Todd Akin for Senate.
God Bless!
130 died in Joplin 2 years ago.
Guess again.
Did 0 ever deliver to Joplin "your dollah" and your Sandford Act money? Wasn't that his slam against Bush and Katrina?
Don’t know all the details as I am in NE KS about 150 miles away, daughter was at school about 20 mi west of Joplin; creamed that town, cut it in half and half was gone afterward, town of 50,000- fortunate so few were killed.
But, we’re jaded out here, don’t know nuthin’, never lost power or know such hardships, blah, blah.
Seen blizzards and ice storms and such. part of living out here as far as I’m concerned.
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