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'Frankenstorm' Headed to Region

Consider this, if the media doesn't get "dramatic" about the "potential" severity of a coming storm, how many people won't evacuate?

It's possible that "exaggeration" might have saved many lives.

Because honestly - for many, this was the biggest, most catastrophic and dangerous storm to have ever effected their lives.
It's also quite possible many who lived through Sarah might never see anything as powerful for the rest of their lives.

Of course for some - Sarah ended their life, so to try to "play down" the severity of this storm is really just tasteless and sad.
 
Madness in Manhattan

Still no power below 34th.
They shut off my building's (Midtown East) heat and hot water this morning to 'fix' area. We have power but hot water is run on steam. No prospect of return- they lied initially.
Gridlock traffic as idiots came to [not crucial] office work by car, as no Mass Transit.
Mayor just instituted HOV only into City next few days.
Cable TV/internet service, sketchy.
Stores running out of certain stuff.
Should be alleviated in a few days.

This of course is just my local view of one crowded part of the Region's problem, which includes many millions with no power, or for some, even residence.
 
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Canell said:
See, not such a pain in the ass, as the media is trying to present it. :)
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Nearly 60 people known dead, more are missing, thousands if not tens of thousands of homes completely obliterated, businesses and livelihoods gone by the thousands, hundreds of communities literally wiped off the map, 10-20 billion dollars in damage...

That was an absolutely obnoxious thing to say.
 
DiAnna said:
Nearly 60 people known dead, more are missing, thousands if not tens of thousands of homes completely obliterated, businesses and livelihoods gone by the thousands, hundreds of communities literally wiped off the map, 10-20 billion dollars in damage...

That was an absolutely obnoxious thing to say.
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Nothing compared to Charley.

Sorry. I live in CT, now, and honestly, after having lived through Charley in FL, I viewed this as a sort of joke.
 
DiAnna said:
That was an absolutely obnoxious thing to say.
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I don't argue there is some severe damage. I argue that the media is exaggerating. Once in a 100 years superstorm, once in a lifetime megastorm, unseen hurricane... Yeah, sure.
 
KevinKohler said:
Nothing compared to Charley.

Sorry. I live in CT, now, and honestly, after having lived through Charley in FL, I viewed this as a sort of joke.
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Canell said:
I don't argue there is some severe damage. I argue that the media is exaggerating. Once in a 100 years superstorm, once in a lifetime megastorm, unseen hurricane... Yeah, sure.
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See - this is where you two can easily be awarded gold stars for asinine comments and foolishness.

Have there been worse natural disasters in the world? Yes. Without question.

Was Sandy a record setting monster of a storm? Yes. There is no doubt it was.

Based on pressure, Sandy is likely to be the strongest storm ever to make landfall north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, for as long as records have been kept.
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When hurricane hunter aircraft measured its central pressure at 940 millibars -- 27.76 inches -- Monday afternoon, it was the lowest barometric reading ever recorded for an Atlantic storm to make landfall north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The previous record holder was the 1938 "Long Island Express" Hurricane, which dropped as low as 946 millibars.
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Sandy's strength and angle of approach combined to produce a record storm surge of water into New York City. The surge level at Battery Park topped 13.88 feet at 9:24 p.m. Monday, surpassing the 10.02 feet record water level set by Hurricane Donna in 1960.
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You two are completely leaving out context and intelligence.

Where, how, and when this storm hit is unprecedented.

If you got off easy, like I did, that's fantastically lucky and fortunate for you.

The FACTS are simple though.

It was a huge storm.
A devastating storm.
A killer storm.
A storm for the record books.

For anyone to make light of it at this time is hugely disrespectful and in such poor taste it's not even close to funny.

You should both just stop. Please. Out of respect for those who have lost much more than any of us sitting here posting words on some silly internet forum.

You may have lost nothing. Others have lost everything.

Have a heart and some compassion.
 
Dragonfly said:
See - this is where you two can easily be awarded gold stars for asinine comments and foolishness.

Have there been worse natural disasters in the world? Yes. Without question.

Was Sandy a record setting monster of a storm? Yes. There is no doubt it was.








You two are completely leaving out context and intelligence.

Where, how, and when this storm hit is unprecedented.

If you got off easy, like I did, that's fantastically lucky and fortunate for you.

The FACTS are simple though.

It was a huge storm.
A devastating storm.
A killer storm.
A storm for the record books.

For anyone to make light of it at this time is hugely disrespectful and in such poor taste it's not even close to funny.

You should both just stop. Please. Out of respect for those who have lost much more than any of us sitting here posting words on some silly internet forum.

You may have lost nothing. Others have lost everything.

Have a heart and some compassion.
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Great post. Now if only they would listen to your wise words.
 
KevinKohler said:
Nothing compared to Charley.

Sorry. I live in CT, now, and honestly, after having lived through Charley in FL, I viewed this as a sort of joke.
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So, at least 55 people losing their lives and some people losing everything they own is a "sort of a joke" to you?
 
Did you know that the boardwalk in Seaside Heights in New Jersey is GONE? What a shame.


Hurricane Sandy Slams New Jersey's Historic Seaside Heights, Boardwalk
Published October 31, 2012
Fox News Latino

PHOTOS: Hurricane Sandy Wipes Out Seaside Heights
New Jersey, amusement rides that once crowned a pier in Seaside Heights were dumped into the ocean, some homes were smashed, and others were partially buried in sand.
The well known town and historic boardwalk of Seaside Heights, New Jersey, loved by generations of families as a popular summer vacation spot, has been washed away by Hurricane Sandy.
Besides ravaging beaches, the storm swept homes off their foundations in some coastal communities, wrecked some boardwalks and knocked amusement park rides from piers in Seaside Heights.
Photos and aerial views show rides from Seaside Heights well known boardwalk and amusement park on the Jersey Shore.
The famous roller coaster on the fun time pier has plunged into the sea.
A merry go round that has gone round for 99 years is destroyed. The bumper cars and the ferris wheel have crashed together, and the boardwalk is gone.


Read more: Hurricane Sandy Slams New Jersey's Historic Seaside Heights, Boardwalk | Fox News Latino
 
ChrisL said:
So, at least 55 people losing their lives and some people losing everything they own is a "sort of a joke" to you?
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No hurricane is a joke, and the intensity of the storm is from the perspective of those who rode it out.
If you were in it, it was bad!
This was a bad storm, mostly because it hit a high population area that does not get many hurricanes,
so the area had a lot of stuff built in storm surge zones.
The news media has played it up, because they were in it, (so it was a real bad storm to them.).
 
longview said:
No hurricane is a joke, and the intensity of the storm is from the perspective of those who rode it out.
If you were in it, it was bad!
This was a bad storm, mostly because it hit a high population area that does not get many hurricanes,
so the area had a lot of stuff built in storm surge zones.
The news media has played it up, because they were in it, (so it was a real bad storm to them.).
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That's the number one reason. The folks in the Northeast have never had to deal with this.
 
DiAnna said:
Nearly 60 people known dead, more are missing, thousands if not tens of thousands of homes completely obliterated, businesses and livelihoods gone by the thousands, hundreds of communities literally wiped off the map, 10-20 billion dollars in damage...

That was an absolutely obnoxious thing to say.
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i have heard of it yet :((

these are tragic losses.
 
The reason I'm making my assinine posts is because I'm a little ticked. This storm got way hyped, more so than even Hugo, is continuing to get mega media coverage, and, oh my, 60 people dead. Where was all of this when Charley hit? I rode out this storm thinking, Jesus, I've gone snorkeling in worse weather, yet it's a state of emergency, national guard, and the president rolls in. Why? Because new englanders aren't used to it, and since floridians are, they just need to accept that Charley apparently wasn't that big a deal? Hundreds dead, millions left homeless, property damage so extensive that the insurance companies couldn't even cover it. I do not make light of the storm, either of them...just the outpouring of attention ONE is recieving. I worked for over a month up and down FL repairing roofs with tarps, building tent camps for the refugees, clearing rubble, etc. Know much of that got covered by news? About two days, and then onto the next thing. But since this puff of a blow by comparison hits the north east, woa, stop the presses, we gotta ram THIS news down the throat of the country for going on three weeks now. Toughen up, north east.
 
What we have here is a massive storm that hit a massively overpopulated area. The damage is just as much a reflection of a terribly outdated infrastructure in certain areas as it was a bad storm. Much more powerful storms occur regularly, but not right into the bay of New Jersey and Manhattan.

The devastation in New Jersey is just heartbreaking, but much like New Orleans, it's also somewhat inevitable.

And apparently in the 50s they had several of these during a period when the ocean temperatures were very much like they are now. This could be the first of several. (No, Al Gore, it's not global warming; this cycle has been going on for thousands of years.)
 
Erod said:
What we have here is a massive storm that hit a massively overpopulated area. The damage is just as much a reflection of a terribly outdated infrastructure in certain areas as it was a bad storm. Much more powerful storms occur regularly, but not right into the bay of New Jersey and Manhattan.

The devastation in New Jersey is just heartbreaking, but much like New Orleans, it's also somewhat inevitable.

And apparently in the 50s they had several of these during a period when the ocean temperatures were very much like they are now. This could be the first of several. (No, Al Gore, it's not global warming; this cycle has been going on for thousands of years.)
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It's a blessing that there haven't been anymore fatalities than there has been. The body count could haveveasily been 20 times higher.
 
KevinKohler said:
The reason I'm making my assinine posts is because I'm a little ticked. This storm got way hyped, more so than even Hugo, is continuing to get mega media coverage, and, oh my, 60 people dead. Where was all of this when Charley hit? I rode out this storm thinking, Jesus, I've gone snorkeling in worse weather, yet it's a state of emergency, national guard, and the president rolls in. Why? Because new englanders aren't used to it, and since floridians are, they just need to accept that Charley apparently wasn't that big a deal? Hundreds dead, millions left homeless, property damage so extensive that the insurance companies couldn't even cover it. I do not make light of the storm, either of them...just the outpouring of attention ONE is recieving. I worked for over a month up and down FL repairing roofs with tarps, building tent camps for the refugees, clearing rubble, etc. Know much of that got covered by news? About two days, and then onto the next thing. But since this puff of a blow by comparison hits the north east, woa, stop the presses, we gotta ram THIS news down the throat of the country for going on three weeks now. Toughen up, north east.
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Are you always such a flagrant a-hole?
 
Who's right?

Death toll up, gasoline lines grow in monster storm's wake - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers awoke to the rumble of subway trains for the first time in four days on Thursday and the death toll continued to rise from the former hurricane Sandy, one of the biggest and most devastating storms ever to hit the United States.
Lines formed at gas stations amid fuel shortages around the U.S. Northeast and emergency utility crews struggled to reach the worst hit areas and restore power to millions of people.

At least 82 people in North America died in the superstorm, which ravaged the northeastern United States on Monday night, and officials said the count could climb higher as rescuers searched house-to-house through coastal towns.

More deaths were recorded overnight as the extent of destruction became clearer in the New York City borough of Staten Island, where the storm lifted whole houses off their foundations.

Authorities recovered 15 bodies from Staten Island. Among those still missing were two boys aged 4 and 2 who were swept from their mother's arms by the floodwaters, the New York Post reported. In all, 34 people died in New York City.
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Astoundingly classless, and without question truly distasteful.

I'm shocked at the level of ignorance.
 
Dragonfly said:
Astoundingly classless, and without question truly distasteful.

I'm shocked at the level of ignorance.
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But nothing near the level of hypocrisy going on with this storm.
 
Dragonfly said:
Astoundingly classless, and without question truly distasteful.

I'm shocked at the level of ignorance.
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Thousands of storms have torn up stuff in America, left power outages, caused fuel shortages, and left people stranded. This is a VERY common occurrence. Those in the northeast barely notice until it happens to them. It's the Yankees-Red Sox-ESPN effect playing out in real life.

This is a bad situation for the folks in New Jersey, but not one that is any worse than the fires in southern California, tornado outbreaks through the central U.S., mulitiple hurricanes in the Gulf, tsunamis in Japan or Indonesia, earthquakes and volcanoes all around the world, etc, etc, etc.

This is the latest disaster. Hardly the worst, or the first.

We'll help recover and rebuild. That's just what we do.
 
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