sandy aftermath pics

[Danzig]

http://www.foxnews.com/weather/slide...ending#slide=1


no telling what the total $ amount will be on this storm. one picture alone has several cars piled up in a flooded area. going to be high. hopefully no more added to the death toll.

[Danzig]

http://news.yahoo.com/massive-storm-...--finance.html

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

http://www.foxnews.com/weather/slide...ending#slide=1


no telling what the total $ amount will be on this storm. one picture alone has several cars piled up in a flooded area. going to be high. hopefully no more added to the death toll.

Brutal..not finished yet...amazing pics..yes, hope no more deaths..
Watched ABC hour long news at 6.30 and CBS from 10-11 last nite and in between the weather channel, haven't watched them in years...on location reporters were in distress...and Stewart had a re-run due to storm and watched a few minutes of Letterman and was just him and his goofy band leader and no audience...

[Danzig]

i have to admit, probably my biggest pet peeve is when stations such as the weather channel send reporters to stand out in the storms to do reports.

what the hell purpose does that serve? you're telling people it's a serious storm, seek shelter...and then you send a crew in harms way. that makes no sense at all to me. do we really need to see someone in rain gear getting soaked and blown around to know 'hey, it's a hurricane'?

[Riot]

Revealed today that New Jersey is devastated, both on shore and inland, Chris Christie on Fox this am obviously severely worried, caring about his state and people. Fire burned 80 flooded homes. Manhattan flooded. 38 dead.

Heavy heart for all involved

[dellinger63]

Amazing you people are taking Fox at their word?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Amazing you people are taking Fox at their word?

About what? Christie was on Fox this am, highly praising President Obama and the federal response.

The Faux And Fools Idiot asked if Romney was going to do disaster photo-op in New Jersey. Christie said to the Faux Idiot:

Gov. Christie took his message to Fox News and praised the President saying that Obama had helped “tremendously.” He went on to add:

“I spoke to the president three times yesterday,” “He called me for the last time at midnight last night asking what he could do. I said, if you can expedite designating New Jersey as a major disaster area that that would help us to get federal money and resources in here as quickly as possible to help clean up the damage here.”

“The president was great last night,” “He said he would get it done. At 2 a.m., I got a call from FEMA to answer a couple of final questions and then he signed the declaration this morning. So I have to give the president great credit. He’s been on the phone with me three times in the last 24 hours. He’s been very attentive, and anything that I’ve asked for, he’s gotten to me. So, I thank the president publicly for that. He’s done — as far as I’m concerned — a great job for New Jersey.”

When asked if Romney will come to NJ do the disaster photo-op tour, Christie said of Romney:

“I have no idea, nor am I the least bit concerned or interested,” Christie replied, immediately shutting down the idea. “I’ve got a job to do here in New Jersey that’s much bigger than presidential politics and I could [sic] care less about any of that stuff.”

“I have a job to do,” “I’ve got 2.4 million people out of power, I’ve got devastation on the shore, I’ve got floods in the northern part of my state. If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics then you don’t know me.”

Video here:

http://youtu.be/Uu2SJbmhu2I

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

i give him kudos..he told the public that obama did a good job.on this front..but he stands by his support for romney..further keeping it real.

[bigrun]

Powerful Article ... non-political

Watching New York City drown



In 2005, Aaron Naparstek, a writer with the New York Press, published a remarkably prescient piece about the vulnerability of New York City to hurricanes, the flooding that would result along the hundreds of miles of shoreline in the five boroughs—with the water filling the sea-level interior flatlands and washing over the reclaimed swamps of Brooklyn—and the ill-prepared psychology of “a complacent coastal city” where the ocean is not thought of as a threat. Naparstek observed that in fact New York “is behind only Miami and New Orleans on the list of U.S. cities most likely to suffer a major hurricane disaster.” He cited meteorologists and disaster planners with the city’s Office of Emergency of Management who were in consensus “that the metropolitan region is due for a big one. Overdue, in fact.” Mike Lee, then Director of Watch Command at the OEM, told Naparstek that the worst-case hurricane scenario for New York City—in which 30 feet or more of storm surge sweeps over the city in a category 3 storm event—“gives emergency managers serious gastrointestinal distress.” Nicholas Coch, a professor of coastal geology at Queens College, said “The New York City area is the worst possible place for a hurricane to make a landfall.”

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/30/watc...rk_city_drown/

[Antitrust32]

what a crazy storm. I never really would imagine seeing pictures like I have of the places I spent my childhood. My brother was in hoboken, four feet of water surrounding his apartment (he's fine).

Kudos to the President, Governer Christie, and the mayor of NY, for a job well done so far.

[bigrun]

Side note..When was the last time the stock market closed for two consecutive days....1884...wow...

[Clip-Clop]

Just spoke with a good friend of mine that still lives "at the shore" (we never used that terminology growing up) and he said that Bay Head and Mantoloking, two very nice old beach towns are still completely under water and what isnt under water is on fire due to a gas leak that they cannot shut down because the valves are under sand or water. I built about 15 homes on those beaches before I moved, they are all destroyed or washed away completely. Very sad.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

Just spoke with a good friend of mine that still lives "at the shore" (we never used that terminology growing up) and he said that Bay Head and Mantoloking, two very nice old beach towns are still completely under water and what isnt under water is on fire due to a gas leak that they cannot shut down because the valves are under sand or water. I built about 15 homes on those beaches before I moved, they are all destroyed or washed away completely. Very sad.

Sorry to hear that. That must hurt.

I understand the waters are horribly contaminated with gasoline, diesel, etc. and people who stayed back are still being asked to evacuate due to risk of fire.

[Bigsmc]

Breezy Point, Queens photo from the air.

http://www.businessinsider.com/breez...-photo-2012-10

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

Breezy Point, Queens photo from the air.

http://www.businessinsider.com/breez...-photo-2012-10

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

what a crazy storm. I never really would imagine seeing pictures like I have of the places I spent my childhood. My brother was in hoboken, four feet of water surrounding his apartment (he's fine).

Kudos to the President, Governer Christie, and the mayor of NY, for a job well done so far.

I think it very much premature to give kudos to anyone yet.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I think it very much premature to give kudos to anyone yet.

The federal and state responses from the 10 governors so far have been without complaint. What is yours?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

The federal and state responses from the 10 governors so far have been without complaint. What is yours?

Just keep believing that Obama, Christie and Bloomberg are doing a fantastic job because they are telling you that they are.

[Cannon Shell]

http://gothamist.com/2012/10/31/outr...zone_a_dis.php

[Antitrust32]

whatever

so far they've been doing everything they can. Unless Christie bends over and starts chugging water.

The responses have been good.