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)
Several inches of snow has fallen with blizzard warning in Showshoe, WV.
3.5 million without power across eleven states.
See my post...#311. My guess is that Chatham (same county) is similar to what we have been experiencing here. Biggest risk there is downed power lines and trees..should be no flooding...
Listening to the scanner is interesting - and crazy.
NYFD rescuing folks from water in the streets. LOTS of calls of people stuck in elevators. Sorry, but shouldn’t they know to use the stairs when the risk of electrical outage is high?
Head a call for heavy smoke in a subway somewhere.
Heard on the local DFW news during a Hannity break, that Texas already has crews on the way. It's what Americans do when other Americans are hurting.
God Bless America!
“heavy smoke condition in subway”
We don’t know the extent of the damage yet, but it is already clear that this may be worse than most of us expected.
There’s trouble all over, and I don’t want to downplay the damage in other areas. But it looks to me that the damage to New York City might turn out to be much worse than most of us expected.
Here are a few astounding facts:
* The storm surge is already higher than the peak predicted a few hours ago, and far higher than the previous record.
* The Brooklyn Battery tunnel is flooding.
* Supposedly, ALL main line subway tunnels are flooding.
* Fires are burning in some subway tunnels.
* The water is still rising, and the high water may last through tomorrow’s high tide as well.
It seems almost certain that this much water will flood ALL of the underground utilities in the areas with visible standing surface water, and this will spread via the underground tunnels to other areas without visible water on the surface.
Supposedly, if the tunnels all fill with water, pumping them out will take FOUR days. I have no idea how long it will take to repair the infrastructure inside them once they’ve been pumped out, but you can bet it will take a long time.
In other words, New York City’s utilities in the flooded areas will be utterly trashed. Fixing them will be very slow. It’s easy to see how it could take much longer than anyone anticipated before the storm.
So, given this extraordinary situation, what will happen to the water supply? The sewage system? How will people in high rises get water to drink, and what will they do for waste disposal?
Right now, anyway, the city is nearly cut off. How will it be resupplied with food? How will people who wish to leave get out?
And the million dollar question: How will people behave if they have no water? No food? No power? No police?
I doubt this will hit New York City as hard as Katrina hit New Orleans, but right now it looks like recovery from this will NOT be like anything New York has had to recover from before.
Someone may have reported this already, but the Hudson has flooded Tenth Avenue in Chelsea. Manhattan is basically underwater from 23rd Street south and the water is reported to be moving fast. Transformers exploding all over Manhattan. People losing power in the thirties. The lobbies of Peter Cooper Village are flooded (a large housing complex in the East Twenties). I am getting this by cellphone from friends around the city.
I was most worried about storm surge on the coast and the heavy snow in the Appalachians.
Prayers for everyone.
water under the door yet ?
Tell it to GeronL. He thinks it's all a big joke.
I remember reading or watching something about the NY subway system a while back. I believe they said that the subway system has much of it’s original wiring and control systems still in use. Things that they didn’t have spare parts for.
Multiple people in the water. Bellevue hospital taking on water. Most of lower Manhattan flooded with no power.
Amen, W
Just. Wow. :(
Some FReepers just hate anything to do with the Northeast, no matter how bad or who is affected. It is sad.
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