Official Sandy thread

[Chris_]

Damn, that was quick.

[Splashdown]

For those of you interested in landfall, a good local news source is

www.myfoxphilly.com

Live streaming the local news.

[franksolich]

Damn, that was quick.

By the way, just out of curiosity--is this a closed forum, accessible to members only?

If so, was it a mistake for me to put it here?

We're having high traffic, and while the "users on line" show a lot of members viewing this thread, it also shows no, none at all, "guests" viewing it.  That's highly unusual.

[Kyle Ricky]

Here is the live local news stream from Happy Valley. http://wearecentralpa.com/livestreaming

[Ballygrl]

Power back!

[Ballygrl]

How are the older ones living with you taking it?  I'm sure it adds to the stress.

To conserve your energy, any response to this can wait until later.

You're wonderful.

They're actually enjoying it, I think they're treating it like a camping trip.

[Ballygrl]

By the way, just out of curiosity--is this a closed forum, accessible to members only?

If so, was it a mistake for me to put it here?

We're having high traffic, and while the "users on line" show a lot of members viewing this thread, it also shows no, none at all, "guests" viewing it.  That's highly unusual.

I thought it was private, then logged out and it isn't.

[franksolich]

If I'm reading the "water vapor loop" on Drudge correctly--there's no "timeline" that I saw--it appears that as of right now, circa 4:40 p.m. central time, New Jersey has now been wholly sucked into the eye.  The entire state.

Or is that yet to come?

[Splashdown]

Frank,

Gov. Christie said that the hurricane will make landfall in the next hour.

[Scoobie]

I just came back inside from being out riding my neighbors portable garage halfway through their yard and back.

They have (or had, I should say) a 20'x24' portable garage, totally enclosed, for their pickup truck. I heard it break free from the foundation they had it on, and saw it flip completely over on it's top. I got over there just in time to lend a hand so the thing didn't lift up and take flight through the neighborhood.

Now I'm no petite flower, and I'll tell ya', I had my whole body weight and arm strength laid into this thing, and I was still parasailing 12ft at a time trying to hold that thing down.

Fun, yet scary at the same time.

They ended up cutting the fabric free from the frame...the thing is totaled.

Glad to be back inside. <whew>

[Ballygrl]

If I'm reading the "water vapor loop" on Drudge correctly--there's no "timeline" that I saw--it appears that as of right now, circa 4:40 p.m. central time, New Jersey has now been wholly sucked into the eye.  The entire state.

Or is that yet to come?

Not yet, it's due in a couple of hours and is due to hit around high tide.

[Ballygrl]

Joanne Michele ‏@sabzbrach

Christie: Atlantic City mayor "didn't want his people leaving," ...this is now your responsibility. We will not be able to come til 7 AM.

[Ballygrl]

Governor Christie ‏@GovChristie

Hurricane #Sandy is now moving twice as fast as I had originally been briefed-we are now expecting landfall in AC in the next hour

[Ballygrl]

WOW! Christie on TV live now and repeated that the Atlantic City Mayor "didn't want his people to leave the city", and he shook his head when saying that.

[Ballygrl]

Christie is pissed because now he has to send in State and Federal workers in to help people in Atlantic City while there are downed power lines which pose a danger to those workers.

[Splashdown]

WOW! Christie on TV live now and repeated that the Atlantic City Mayor "didn't want his people to leave the city", and he shook his head when saying that.

I think I love him! 

[J P Sousa]

Christie is pissed because now he has to send in State and Federal workers in to help people in Atlantic City while there are downed power lines which pose a danger to those workers.

But not til 7 AM tomorrow. 
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[Ballygrl]

Did you see the press conference? he went on and on about it, then the reporters would bring it up again and he'd go on and on about it again.

[Ballygrl]

But not til 7 AM tomorrow. 

You know the Mayor was hoping Christie wouldn't address it because he can then say AC was abandoned because it's mostly black people there, but the Mayor can't do that now.

[J P Sousa]

I still expect the mayor to make some political B-S about it anyway.

I know Christie wanted to call him an idiot....
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[J P Sousa]

Sandy has officially made landfall. 6:23 PM
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[franksolich]

Sandy has officially made landfall. 6:23 PM
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Okay, and then once the eye passes through New Jersey, the winds following it are to be worse than the winds that preceded it, right?

[J P Sousa]

Okay, and then once the eye passes through New Jersey, the winds following it are to be worse than the winds that preceded it, right?

As one talking head put it; "as the storm moves through, the trees being bent one way will now be bent the opposite way resulting in more fallen trees and power lines".
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[jtyangel]

Wow what a massive(in size) storm. Stronger outer bands are only about 100 miles east of here but we are still getting doused from the from and some of the moisture with this thing. I'm in central oh and we are even anticipating sustained of about 30 mph here with gusts over 60 mph at time. Already here actually. Those are power losers in this area and it doesn't have to go on long to do it. Ugh. Be safe east coast friends. Hopefully it starts getting sucked back out to sea sooner then expected.

[debk]

Wow what a massive(in size) storm. Stronger outer bands are only about 100 miles east of here but we are still getting doused from the from and some of the moisture with this thing. I'm in central oh and we are even anticipating sustained of about 30 mph here with gusts over 60 mph at time. Already here actually. Those are power losers in this area and it doesn't have to go on long to do it. Ugh. Be safe east coast friends. Hopefully it starts getting sucked back out to sea sooner then expected.

Not going to get sucked back out to sea.

It has now been changed from a hurricane, it is now a "Super Storm". It's a combo of a hurricane,  artic cold fronts, and general all around mess.

It actually didn't make landfall. Expected to hit in an hour.

Instead of a warm core, it now has an artic cold core! This thing is totally wicked awful.

FoxNews is giving the description of how it is changing and how it hasn't been bad....it's going to get a whole lot worse and WILL coincide with the high tide.

This is really awful...

Prayers continuing for all of you up there.


We had a weird sky while ago.....bright fushia glowing through the clouds. Thought at first when I saw it out my office window, that something was on fire and glowing into the clouds....