Posted on 10/29/2012 10:21:35 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Late season Hurricane Sandy approaching the Eastern U.S. coast.
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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)
now, perhaps there's a good reason, but . . .
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.
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.
I'm not that familiar with NY -- is that a big hospital? God help them please. And not just there....
Well...he IS a democrat...
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.
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.
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.
Lordy... and some here thought the media was over hyping this storm. Not even...
I keep thinking that the poor rats might drown....apparently, NYC has about a billion of them....
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.
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.
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.
You got rats on the West Side, bedbugs uptown.
Cell phone tower down, NYFD Captain with no cell phone reception. 2nd manhole popping (flooding pressure?).
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.
“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...
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).
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