Hurricane Sandy as 'super storm': Is climate change a factor?

[GOBUCKS]

I'm shocked at the absence of survival tips from nutcase nadin.

She's an expert in hurricane precautions, and I expected an avalanche of pro tips from San Diego, guiding her little clutch of DUmpmonkeys through the hazards of this killer storm.

I'm also expecting the crazy bald dwarf to explain how this storm has been caused by a combination of American industrial pollution and radiation leaks in Japan.

[dane]

I've not checked this campfire for input from gNads, but if she doesn't "weigh" in on it wearing her meteorologist and survivalist hats, no one will know what to do.

[Skul]

Seems that years ago, only actual hurricanes recieved a name.
Now days, anything that can blow a piece of paper across the field, gets a name.

For this reason, some people are convinced it's the fault of Gorebullsh** Wormining.

[Randy]

Climate change? No way. Media over-hype? Abso****ingloutely. I heard it breathlessly refered to as the worst storm to hit the US since Katrina. So at 20 after 3 this morning I woke up everyone in the house screaming GIVE ME A EFFING BREAK. IT'S BARELY A CATAGORY 1, YOU FREAKIN MORONS!!!!!! at the TV.

I must be a brave soul. I was out in it Thursday evening and Friday morning with the AC guy working on my system. My part involved keeping his electronics dry in the wind and rain. To us it was nothing.

[wasp69]

Climate change? No way. Media over-hype? Abso****ingloutely. I heard it breathlessly refered to as the worst storm to hit the US since Katrina. So at 20 after 3 this morning I woke up everyone in the house screaming GIVE ME A EFFING BREAK. IT'S BARELY A CATAGORY 1, YOU FREAKIN MORONS!!!!!! at the TV.

Same happened with me pretty much all day yesterday.  If I could have reached through the tv and strangled every single monitor reader from the Weather Channel all the way to national broadcasters for the way they scared my children, I would have.

I must be a brave soul... To us it was nothing.

To those of us that don't rely on hype and ratings for our daily bread, it's just another crappy, mid fall weather event.  I've been through nor'easters that were much worse and didn't get nearly the hype.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Climate change? No way. Media over-hype? Abso****ingloutely. I heard it breathlessly refered to as the worst storm to hit the US since Katrina. So at 20 after 3 this morning I woke up everyone in the house screaming GIVE ME A EFFING BREAK. IT'S BARELY A CATAGORY 1, YOU FREAKIN MORONS!!!!!! at the TV.

After the BP oil spill, the midwest floods, the tornados, the economy, no budgets, no plans and Benghazi they need to make Obama look like he's actually in charge of something.

[67 Rover]

Someone asked a woman in the grocery store the other day about why she was buying 5 gallons of milk. "In case the power goes out we have plenty" Then she replied "no" to the question about her having a generator to keep all that milk cold if it does go out. Did I mention that this area is probably going to go for Obama?

Did she use an EBT card to pay?  If so then she does not care if it spoils.

[miskie]

Looking at radar imagery, it seems the hurricane has been decimated by the cold nor'easter air - so I flipped on The Weather Channel, and one of their Global Warming talking heads is telling us how even though there is (no/soon wont be any) hurricane anymore, that it doesn't matter, its still a megastorm of doom.   

As I said yesterday, even though the storm is huge, it isn't stable, and it is going to collapse. it seems its already falling apart, and it hasn't actually hit land yet.

Again, it isn't going to dissolve into nothing, but it will behave like a typical nor'easter - wind gusts, rain, and snow at higher altitudes. The only wildcard is it is hitting during high tide, which is resulting in coastal flooding.

[JohnnyReb]

Looking at radar imagery, it seems the hurricane has been decimated by the cold nor'easter air - so I flipped on The Weather Channel, and one of their Global Warming talking heads is telling us how even though there is (no/soon wont be any) hurricane anymore, that it doesn't matter, its still a megastorm of doom.   

As I said yesterday, even though the storm is huge, it isn't stable, and it is going to collapse. it seems its already falling apart, and it hasn't actually hit land yet.

Again, it isn't going to dissolve into nothing, but it will behave like a typical nor'easter - wind gusts, rain, and snow at higher altitudes. The only wildcard is it is hitting during high tide, which is resulting in coastal flooding.

All that MSM hype gone to waste.........and Obama was going to get so much mileage out of it.

[miskie]

All that MSM hype gone to waste.........and Obama was going to get so much mileage out of it.

It isn't surprising, the MSM & Team Obama have run out of opportunities for The Lightbringer to shine. Anyway, the apparent collapse of Sandy isn't unexpected - A typical nor'easter simply isn't compatible with a hurricane.

Though I have the feeling that many on DU were hoping for some real-life apocalypse porn - namely the arctic hurricanes from the movie The Day After Tomorrow.   

Too bad, primitives.

[GOBUCKS]

So, the megastorm of doom doesn't kill anyone, and property damage is far from catastrophic?

What happens then?

Easy! The jug-eared muslim gets credit for managing what would have otherwise been an unprecedented disaster.

 
Now, second possibility - what if the megastorm of doom floods and damages billions of dollars of property?

What happens then?

Easy! The jug-eared Kenyan gets credit for preventing a Katrina-like disaster.

It could have been so much worse without the steady hand of the muslim messiah.

[J P Sousa]

You must have watched NBC News last night?

I was laughing my ass off at them hyping the storm so as to make Obama look good. It was RE-dick-que-lous.

....and then leading you to believe they were giving you live reports from the beaches of the N.C. Outer Banks.... ....reporter was making her report in bright sunshine when it was already dark 150 miles inland... ....but that's alright, The DUmmies bought it....

They don't just think people are stupid.....they know it.

It must be so easy to be a democrat B-S politician.........the democrat faithful will buy anything if you have the "correct" initial after your name.   
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[AprilRazz]

Did she use an EBT card to pay?  If so then she does not care if it spoils.

In this area she probably did. I think I am the only one that pays in something other than EBT anymore in that store.

[Skul]

I'm waiting for the aclu to sue God, for voter intimidation.

[NHSparky]

I drove to work tonight.  30-35 mph winds, gusts maybe to 50.

I dealt with far worse during the ice storm in 2008, the wind storm in 2010, and Irene last year.

But what really got me going was eating breakfast this morning and the idiots on GMA were talking about, "How to talk to your kids about the storm."

That got me into a snarkier than usual mood when the owner of the breakfast place and I were chuckling to ourselves and I said, "Yeah, here's how you do it--mommy is gonna light a fire in the fireplace, you kids'll eat some popcorn and play some games, and maybe daddy'll have to go outside and cut up a tree."

Oh, that would have made a liberal's head explode, cutting up the trees of Mother Gaia and BURNING them!  Oh, the horror!