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Hurricane Sandy Live Thread II
NOAA/NHC & Various ^ | 10/29/2012 | NOAA/NHC & Various

Posted on 10/29/2012 10:21:35 AM PDT by NautiNurse

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NYPD dispatch just now .. someone stuck in a water tank

now, perhaps there's a good reason, but . . .

521 posted on 10/29/2012 8:18:53 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: metmom
We understand that he is not representative of TX FReepers. What needs to be pointed out as well, is that he is not representative of FReepers, period.

Thanks for saying that, Mom.

I've been here a long time now, and rarely (if ever) do I go after someone for their bad behavior, but this was just beyond the pale.

Fellow Americans are in the midst of enduring one of the greatest natural tragedies to ever be visited upon our continent, and this one Freeper simply displayed a heartlessness that is unconscionable. I had to say something.

I'll stop now, though, because I need to quit distracting from the intention and purpose of this thread.

Thanks.

522 posted on 10/29/2012 8:18:54 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Good point. and thanks. I have relatives facing the brunt of this storm right now .... and one of them is a Freeper as well. I’m in East Texas now, and surrounded by types like this guy. Texas is great, but we do have more than our fair share of bubba morons and creeps.


523 posted on 10/29/2012 8:20:18 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: HollyB
Apparently, there is 2 feet of water in the basement of Bellvue and they can’t get the generators to work.

I'm not that familiar with NY -- is that a big hospital? God help them please. And not just there....

524 posted on 10/29/2012 8:20:50 PM PDT by Paul R. (We are in a break in an Ice Age. A brief break at that...)
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To: WVNan
Gov.Tomblin is an idiot.

Well...he IS a democrat...

525 posted on 10/29/2012 8:21:09 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: NELSON111
I discovered this last night. On his wall he says he was booted off two other forums for his views. I suspect he was an abrasive jerk over there as well and THAT is what got him booted...truth be told.

I also saw that on his profile, and suspect the same. Dunno what to say, except that some of us obviously had better home training than others.

I just know that tens of millions of our fellow Americans are in the midst of battling a nearly unprecedented catastrophe. Now's not the time to complain about how the media may be over hyping this. For once, they might actually be right.

526 posted on 10/29/2012 8:24:44 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: metmom
what would happen if the power went out and I could not get something as simple as the IV drip with the anti-biotics.

Once upon a time in U.S. hospitals, and to this day in the field as well as in "progressive" countries with nationalized health care (e.g. Great Britain), intravenous fluids with and without medications are given via gravity drip. No pumps.

527 posted on 10/29/2012 8:24:52 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Barack Obama--you are the weakethest link. Goodbye!)
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To: Windflier

Many FReepers like to wish the worst on NYers thinking they are all libs and deserve it. I have seen worse threads...we are used to it.


528 posted on 10/29/2012 8:25:26 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: silentknight
Local Storm Report by NWS OKX: Manhattan [New York Co, NY] broadcast media reports COASTAL FLOOD at 09:27 PM EDT — new york stock exchance trading floor under 3 feet of water.

Lordy... and some here thought the media was over hyping this storm. Not even...

529 posted on 10/29/2012 8:25:54 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: American Constitutionalist

I keep thinking that the poor rats might drown....apparently, NYC has about a billion of them....


530 posted on 10/29/2012 8:26:07 PM PDT by cherry
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Visual FYI, as of ~2200 EST


             

531 posted on 10/29/2012 8:26:16 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Paul R.

Nothing about water, but scanner said Bellevue requests oxygen from NYFD, and says they only have 1 hour of fuel left for generators. May need mass evacuation.


532 posted on 10/29/2012 8:26:34 PM PDT by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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To: Paul R.

Bellevue is the oldest public hospital in the US. It was once synonymous with “nuthouse” because of their psychiatric ward, mentioned in many movie and TV shows.


533 posted on 10/29/2012 8:26:56 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: American Constitutionalist

Very heavy rain in southeast PA now, and winds are picking up again now that the eye has just passed. Major flooding on at least two creeks and still rising. I’m really worried about the earthen dam at Springton Reservoir. If that goes it will cut PA 252, I-476, and probably I-95. It would cut the county in half and cut three arteries to the rest of the state.


534 posted on 10/29/2012 8:27:01 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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To: cherry
I keep thinking that the poor rats might drown....apparently, NYC has about a billion of them....

You got rats on the West Side, bedbugs uptown.

535 posted on 10/29/2012 8:28:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 21twelve

Cell phone tower down, NYFD Captain with no cell phone reception. 2nd manhole popping (flooding pressure?).


536 posted on 10/29/2012 8:29:19 PM PDT by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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To: metmom

FDNY receives hospital request for another generator, and large oxygen tanks, their supply is low. I missed the hospital name, not used to the accent.


537 posted on 10/29/2012 8:29:28 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose (It's time for a fundamental restoration, of our country's principles!)
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To: RummyChick; GeronL
Manhattan


538 posted on 10/29/2012 8:29:55 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: American Constitutionalist

“During Dereco our electric did not come back on until 6 days later.
This situation will be much more difficult for New York city because a lot of their electric infrastructure is under ground.”

With this much damage, I wonder how NYC will cope with the election come November 6. Power may not be restored, and many who evacuated may not be able to return in time to vote. Similar situation in New Jersey.

Having said that, both New York state and New Jersey could postpone their respective elections, without really impacting the presidential contest.

Even Pennsylvania and West Virginia could be impacted, election-wise...


539 posted on 10/29/2012 8:30:02 PM PDT by Road Glide
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To: Paul R.

Bellevue Hospital Center, most often referred to as “Bellevue”, was founded on March 31, 1736 and is the oldest public hospital in the United States. Located on First Avenue in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, Bellevue is famous from many literary, film and television references, and as the training ground for many of America’s leaders in medicine. Affiliated with the New York University School of Medicine since 1968, Bellevue has been the site of many milestones in the history of medicine,[1] from the establishment of the first ambulance service and first maternity ward, to Nobel Prize-winning cardiac catheterization laboratory.
Bellevue is exceptionally well known for its psychiatric facilities and its emergency department, being named New York’s #1 hospital in Emergency Care by New York Magazine.[2] It has opened a new ambulatory care building dedicated to serving over 300,000 outpatients a year as well as burn units for pediatric (children) and adult burn patients. The hospital serves as a primary referral center for cardiac catheterization, catheter-based treatment of heart rhythm disorders, cardiovascular surgery, neurosurgery, physical rehabilitation and Hansen’s disease (leprosy).


540 posted on 10/29/2012 8:30:37 PM PDT by HollyB
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