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Posted on 10/28/2012 5:45:39 PM PDT by lbryce
Hurricane Sandy From Space
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Just in case you thought the Hurricane hype couldn't get any louder, check out this dispatch from Weather Channel meterologist Stu Ostro:
- History is being written as an extreme weather event continues to unfold, one which will occupy a place in the annals of weather history as one of the most extraordinary to have affected the United States.
- REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE OFFICIAL DESIGNATION IS NOW OR AT/AFTER LANDFALL -- HURRICANE (INCLUDING IF "ONLY" A CATEGORY ONE), TROPICAL STORM, POST-TROPICAL, EXTRATROPICAL, WHATEVER -- OR WHAT TYPE OF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER -- PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM NEED TO HEED THE THREAT IT POSES WITH UTMOST URGENCY...
- With Sandy having already brought severe impacts to the Caribbean Islands and a portion of the Bahamas, and severe erosion to some beaches on the east coast of Florida, it is now poised to strike the northeast United States with a combination of track, size, structure and strength that is unprecedented in the known historical record there...
- A meteorologically mind-boggling combination of ingredients is coming together:
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Well stated TT. My ‘first’ was Audrey in ‘57 living in south La. Now today in metro areas, its BIG news if the electricity is out for a while and they can’t watch their real-life drama TV shows.
Not to minimize the danger of any high winded storm, but the HYPE on a CAT1 is what is revealing to what is defined as ‘hardship’.
We are not the rugged individuals we used to be. Now we depend on FEMA and the government, shared risk and common denominators.
good luck out there.
Water is already up to the boardwalk in the Rockaways.
And here's a video made earlier today: The Day Before Tomorrow - Sandy 2012
Good posts you cited—but it is the impact on the heavily populated CT coast, NYC, Philly, DC corridor that have my attention.
The ten million power outages projected actually sounds a little low...
/johnny
Unless you feel like strolling across the border from Mexico or or drifting in across the ocean as a misunderstood Muslim. As someone said in another thread tonight, this election is mostly white people against everybody else.
Not trying to hijack this thread, just noticed your tagline.
I saw one pretty large secondary flash on the ground, immediately after a bolt hit that spot. I figured that secondary flash could have been power lines, but I also wonder if it could have been a transformer. (Said secondary flash lasted a good second, I would say.) I'm sure that a lot of our military guys / any regular pilots have been through a lot more fun, but for this "occaisional" commercial flyer, it was quite an experience. For an awful lot of people, it was no "fun" at all, of course.
Back in 2009, I was in the middle of the big ice storm that tagged AR / KY / S. IL (power out for many, for 3 weeks in mid-winter). And then a few months later I was dragging my generator to my Mom's in S. IL, which got hit by a "Convective Vortex" that developed on the north end of a Derecho. Winds topped out at around 106 mph in that baby, as I recall. According to the NWS, later, "most meteorologists will only see a derecho like this once in their career".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGJmOeDEBtw
Prayers up for all those in the path of Sandy, whether I agree with them politically or not!
God is not a freeper.
True, but He is a lurker and reads everything we post. ;)
/johnny
Your right.. God is not a Freeper... he controls it all.
Yes, and had he sympathies, surely some would favor us.
Think about it more deep... God controls every living cell in your being... he gives you every breath that you take.
johnny
In none of the forecasts was there any suggestion of flooding or rains over 1 inch, or of winds over 40 miles per hour. One would think if the world were coming to an end due to weather, it would show up somewhere in the local forecast.
“so that means high tide and WEREWOLVES”
“That made me laugh!”
But, do you have your silver bullets to dispatch the werewolf who shows up on a full moon? It’s bad enough to have high water without complicating it with a freaky werewolf running around trying to bite your neck.
The local RACES (look it up) net sometimes asks for 'green flashes not associated with lightning'.
Well Duh... even cooks with ham radio licenses know that copper oxidizes to a green color.
White flash? Lightning (or a nuke, and if that's the case, there are other problems). Greenish flash (you will know in the afterimage, once you've seen one) is probably a transformer.
The oil coming out of busted and burned transformers isn't particularly something you want to roll around in, either. Run away works for that.
Difference between a storm spotter and a storm chaser is 50 IQ points. ;)
/johnny
Thanks for that interesting account!
Warning.. Warning.. Warning!
It's Going To RAIN!
You're all gonna DIE!!
Man the Lifeboats -- Gays and Metrosexuals First!
Political signs...oh my. Hundreds of them. Halloween decorations....this is not going to end well.
Alot of old trees, huge limbs, and saturated ground. Again...scary as hell even not considering the high winds.
agreed, here down south we know about storms but to listen to my MIL who is up in MA then one would think this was Andrew and Katrina all rolled in one.
People buying loads of food, stocking up with various items and the media will use this to cover on Libya and this cover up.
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