Posted on 10/29/2012 10:21:35 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Late season Hurricane Sandy approaching the Eastern U.S. coast.
Sea Surface Temps
Local Radar & Weather: Wunderground Severe Wx Northeast
Philadelphia/New Jersey Current Wx
Delaware: Dover Air Force Base Current Wx
New York: Long Island Current Wx
Buoy Data: Current Observations
Mt. Holly NJ NWS Briefing Package for Hurricane Sandy (pdf file)
mware, good to see you’re online .. hope all’s well with you and yours throughout this mess.
Dear Lord, let us all take out the trash next Tuesday !!!
It’s going to be a hell of a night.
Not sustained, but gusts up to 85 mph here locally. Mostly the wind has managed to push all the water into LI Sound such that ‘low’ tide didn’t drop the water level at all, and now high tide will raise it even more.
A few trees down and numerous power outages, but not much else major here in Conn besides the coastal flooding.
Checking in from Morris County NJ (Mt Olive)..winds are getting bad, rains are intermittent but heavy at times, power on and off...going to be a long night but thankfully we are in decent shape...the shore seems to be a mess, some friends are fearing for their homes in Cape May County, parts of the Seaside boardwalk are under water...They are worried about the surge in lower Manhattan and it seems to be a given that parts of the subway will flood...glued to the tv here...prayers to all...
Battery up to 12.75. Looking at the live feed, there is a fetch on the back side of the center of circulation going right into NYC from the SE as we are still an hour away from high tide. A nightmare scenario.
We are in the process of transitioning from a 20 billion dollar disaster to an 80 billion dollar diaster.
That is bad, bad, bad. Water seeks the lowest point. That means underground infrastructure in NYC.
Beginning to look like Katrina II.
PLEASE NOTE:
NHC will issue its last advisory on Sandy at 1100 PM EDT. The
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center...HPC...will begin issuing
public advisories at 500 am EDT Tuesday. HPC public advisories will
be issued under the same WMO and AWIPS headers as the NHC public
advisories...and will also be available via the NHC website.
On/Off Hurricane List Mash Here--> 
Just damn
AccuWeather.com @breakingweather Incredible NYC area wind gusts right now: 79 mph at JFK, 78 at Newark, 68 at La Guardia, even 58 in sheltered Central Park. (via @muwxguy) Expand Reply Retweet Favorite
First of all... Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone in Sandy's destructive path... that normally would include us, as we live in northern Connecticut, but my husband and I are now actually in Palm Beach, Florida... hubby is attending a 3-day business conference at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach (wish we could stay there! We're in a less expen$ive hotel nearby).
It is SO strange to be in Florida while this hurricane hits our area in the northeast... we've been watching the hurricane on TV (mostly Fox News). I hope our house makes it - we have a lot of big, tall oak trees hovering over our house... *sigh*
Just called our land line at home - the answering machine didn't pick up, so I assume there is no power in our part of CT. After the storm we will check in with neighbors to try to find out the status of our property.
We drove from CT to VA on Friday (stayed one night near Quantico, Virginia) and managed to avoid Hurricane Sandy. We arrived in Florida on Sunday. Saw some black, angry skies off the coast of North Carolina on Saturday, drove through rain drops for about 20 minutes, then the skies brightened up in SC and Georgia. We pretty much passed Sandy like two ships in the night.
On Saturday and Sunday we passed armies of tree service bucket trucks roaring north up I-95... from Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Those trucks were a very familiar site for us last year in CT, as we were without power for 5 days during Tropical Storm Irene in August, and we had no power for 8 days after our very damaging late October 2011 freak "snow-icane".
Although it's been sunny and nice here in Palm Beach since we arrived, on Sunday the Atlantic Ocean in Florida was still feeling the effects of Sandy as it moved from the Carribbean up past the east coast of Florida. The Breakers' Hotel beach had disappeared, and the surf was POUNDING the shoreline - and the old hotel itself. Surf was crashing up onto the hotel property... several palm trees and a wooden dock (now broken and mangled) are casualties of Hurricane Sandy at the Breakers. Everyone on Sunday was standing at the ocean's edge completely mesmerized at the violent ocean... amazing spectacle.
Saw some worried-looking hotel managers wandering around the property, and there were "ocean rescue" crews keeping hotel guests behind barricades. Sand bags were piled up in front of some of the glass doors and windows... employees of the hotel told me they've never seen anything like this.
Several employees told me that normally the ocean is like a turquiose blue "pond". On Sunday the sea there was an angry putrid green color and was crashing against the shore, buildings, palm trees, anything in its path. Sand, shells and small rocks have landed on the hotel's stone balcony/boardwalk. There was wet sand all over the place.
On the political junkie side... we've been enjoying watching the TV ads in the swing states of Virginia and Florida... Romney and Republican candidates for the House and Senate have been running some great commercials. Lots of very good ads for Romney and Rep. Allen West ran during the World Series last night.
In Connecticut - other than the nasty US Senate race between WWE Exec Linda McMahon (R) and Rep. Chris Murphy (D), you'd never even know a presidential race was going on.
It is SO refreshing for us to see so many pro-GOP lawn signs, bumper stickers and great conservative *billboards* from below-the-Beltway Virginia, on south to Florida. Finally had my very first Chick-fil-A meal in Pooler, Georgia (it was great!).
Oops... lights just went out in Fox News' NYC studio (aww, Shemp Smith is in the dark). Looks like things are really getting nasty in the northeast...
Stay safe everyone... I hope and pray none of us suffers any loss of life or property.
But it’ll start a new industry - underwater scuba tours of downtown NYC!
Just read that Sandy has become a post-tropical cyclone. Why is not tropical anymore?
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201218_5day.html
meanwhile ‘rag’heads with laptops are going out of their way to attack Romney.. it’s not like he doesn’t know disasters. Massachusetts, MittCare, the Utah Olympics, .. yet headlines are out there like this..
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Would Romney Support FEMA?
Matt Vasilogambros National Journal — 10/29/12
http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/would-romney-support-fema—20121029
As major storms gather to lash the East Coast and the work of the Federal Emergency Management Agency steps into the national spotlight, some are raising questions about Mitt Romney’s position on the sometimes-controversial federal agency.
The tightness of the isobars on that map says that the highest winds are in northern West Virginia, across the Maryland panhandle, western Pennsylvania and up into the eastern Great Lakes.
Other than news of snowfall in WV I’ve not heard anything out of those regions.
Might be helpful. I am surrounded by 90-100% outages, and yet still have power (thankfully).
http://outage.cl-p.com/outage/outagemap.aspx
Thanks Alancarp. Agreed...
6:26PM Islip: Wind gust 90mph
6:56PM Babylon: Gas station at the intersection of 14th St and straight path is on fire.
I would expect a crane like this to be tightly bound to the roof. Overall, it did remain in the roof.
Part of it was dislodged. I don’t know what the regulations or guidelines are.
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