Sandy Cheeks

[Dark Sage]

Blade, that was a movie clip from The Day After Tomorrow a film about the end of the world.

Unbelievable.

[Magmar]

This is a sheep-in-wolf's clothing. Just like last time.

And by a sheep in wolf's clothing, you really can't be referring to Sandy.

Highways are underwater and closed.

Whole cities are underwater.

Trees are falling left and right on cars and houses.

50,000 Rhode Islanders are without power.

Homes and businesses are flooded out.

Flood gates and seawalls are overflowing.

Just because it doesn't affect you as much from the comfort of being inland doesn't mean that it's not a big deal sir

[mr_pikachu]

Well, I do pity those of you who live on the coast. The wind's been rattling my windows for the last few hours -- and I'm in Indiana. Lord knows what it must be doing to anyone who's actually caught in the hurricane itself.

[Jeff]

Let's just say this: how our power has held out this long is beyond me.

[Telume]

These power outages and downed powerlines are why I prefer to have our powerlines underground like they are in Europe.

[kurai]

media





v.

random people



attention-seekers: who will kill themselves first?

[kurai]

well this doesn't look promising

[kurai]

front wall optional

[kurai]

brooklyn flooding developing

[Roy Karrde]

Midtown Manhatten just had a power surge, it was interesting to see Fox and the rest suddenly start broadcasting from a darkened studio. The biggest flooding problems will be in the next hour.

Edit: Fox's power just went out again

Edit Again: All power in lower Manhatten has been cut

[ChobiChibi]

Blade, that was a movie clip from The Day After Tomorrow a film about the end of the world.

Unbelievable.

I believe it was intended as comic relief, not fact, or jest.

The amusing part being the fact that it floods New York in the film. Of course its not amusing irl, but I think that's what he's getting at.

[Dark Sage]

It's not something to laugh at.

Power in Mahattan has been cut? Odd... Power's still on where I am. I wouldn't be able to post this message if it wasn't.

[Roy Karrde]

It's not something to laugh at.

Power in Mahattan has been cut? Odd... Power's still on where I am. I wouldn't be able to post this message if it wasn't.

Just lower Manhatten, I believe it's in the neighborhood where 1 World Trade Center, Church Street, and the Ghostbusters Firehouse is. Did you get any of the power flashes that were affecting Midtown?

[ChobiChibi]

It's not something to laugh at.

Never said I found it funny. But at least I understood his intentions.

[Jeff]

Power is out here. We're using the battery-powered inverter to power the router and modem to get Internet access for now. Hoping the power comes back on sometime tomorrow, but I'm not holding my breath. Meanwhile the storm is still roaring outside.

[DarkestLight]

Zone A is powerless, and will remain until the storm passes. Midtown and upper Manhattan will have periodic surges, and might actually lose power.

Outages are sporadic in Queen, Brooklyn and Staten. Haven't heard anything from the BX yet, oddly enough.

My issue is not with it running though and flooding (East River flooded my old block, lol, clean them rats out for GOOD!) I'm truly interested if it can make it to the Great Lakes and "refuel" and actually hit Minneapolis. There is a low pressure system just west of Minnesota currently, and in 36 hours if the two culd somehow meet, we'd have a wicked blizzard storm that could reverse its path over the midwest.

I DO NOT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN, CAUSE I'M TWO STATES OVER AND THAT WOULD SUCK SINCE I HATE COLD..but it would be cool t see a transcendent weather pattern actually evolve from hurricane to cyclone to blizzard and then back out and up to the Arctic.

[kurai]

#TwitterReporting

FDNY headquarters on Grand St. being evacuated by boat.

FDNY is enroute to Coney Island Hospital for a reported fire on the third floor with a heavy smoke condition.

FDNY is reporting that Coney Island Hosptial is surrounded by “three to four feet of water.” FDNY is reporting that they are unable to access Coney Island Hospital at this time. Dispatch responded with “no boats available.”

NYU hospital generator failed. Personnel manually evacuating PICU & NICU down 9 flights of stairs.

#BadNewsAllAround

[kurai]

Peak Water possibly achieved

[Asilynne]

Aside from the rain, its weirdly calm outside...good luck everyone north of here. Stay safe, warm and dry!

[shazza]

I didn't take into account the sheer magnitude until I saw this comparison between Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Sandy:

[Magmar]

http://630wpro.com/Article.asp?id=2562010&spid=42209

my poor home

[Telume]

Magmar! Glad to see you're alright!

[mr_pikachu]

I concur with Telume.

I didn't take into account the sheer magnitude until I saw this comparison between Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Sandy:

Good God. One of my students mentioned this comparison picture after class today, but I didn't grasp just how big the difference was until I saw your post. That's nuts....

[Lady Vulpix]

I really hope everyone is OK. I'm really sorry about your home, Magmar, but at least I'm glad you're alive.

I'm far, far away from that area, but we had an unusually big storm yesterday. Large areas of the city and suburbs were flooded, and some are still without electricity. At least 2 people died, many bus lines stopped working because they couldn't drive in the water, and some stores lost a lot of merchandise too. Water entered my house in the early morning and now the wooden floor has a different color, but fortunately nothing (else?) was ruined. It did take a while to get all the water out, and I lost my Internet connection for a few hours (because my provider had no power), but things are back to normal at home now. It's still raining on and off, but nothing like yesterday morning.

[Magmar]

i really meant "my poor hometown". Gah, this is what happens when I'm rush posting while, well, taking a break from cleaning all the damn branches and pieces of fence and crap out of the yard. my aunt's house, which has been in our family since we came here from Italy and where I was just on Sunday night, is gone.

Some more scenes from R.I.:

[BTPoke]

I've got nothing, of course, up here in wisconsin, so the one thing I can do is lighten the mood a bit.

[Dark Sage]

You should see what happened in Queens. Eighty homes and businesses were destroyed in a fire that took the whole night to put out.

Btw, I take back everthing I said about this being a "sheep-in-wolf-clothing". This may be the first time I don't blame Governor Christie for being mad at someone, given how the mayor of Atlantic City reacted, not to mention the first time Christie ever had a nice word to say about the President.

[Telume]

I'm dying to know how some of my friends up in NY and NJ are doing. I know that power's not going to come back right away.

[DarkestLight]

its up to 110 houses in Queens. Staten is a fricking wreck. I'm amazed the Verrazano held! NYC triathalon in a week! Get that scuba gear! Harlem going through it, cleaning out subways, power outages...but at least he streets are getting a damn bath. Maybe we'll lose a few crackheads.

Death toll is sadly gonna rise though.

[Blademaster]

Amateur video footage of the storm outside the New York Public Library.

And karma bites me in the ass for that one by stranding me in the cold and dark of Middleofnowheresville of Passiac County, NJ, since last Monday night.

Yes, last Monday night. As in nearly ten Goddamn days ago.

BUT I AIN'T DEAD YET!

(Spoiler:) As far as you know...