Hurricane Sandy

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:24 pm

I've been seeing a lot of messages and warnings all day, about how this Hurricane is going to merge with a cold front to make a 2nd "Perfect Storm". While not trying to stoke up paranoia, please be very aware and very careful... all you people in the affected areas. No one need this B.S. before the holiday season.

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YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:59 am

Heard it could be horrible, or not so bad for us in CT.

All I know is last year at this time a snow storm destroyed this state worse than ever and knocked out power for 9 days, I am not looking forward to another 9 days without power.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 3:01 pm

I thought a hurricane needed warm air/water, cold weather just douses it out.

A tropical cyclone can cease to have tropical characteristics through several different ways. One such way is if it moves over land, thus depriving it of the warm water it needs to power itself, quickly losing strength. Most strong storms lose their strength very rapidly after landfall and become disorganized areas of low pressure within a day or two, or evolve into extratropical cyclones. While there is a chance a tropical cyclone could regenerate if it managed to get back over open warm water, if it remains over mountains for even a short time, weakening will accelerate. Many storm fatalities occur in mountainous terrain, as the dying storm unleashes torrential rainfall, leading to deadly floods and mudslides, similar to those that happened with Hurricane Mitch in 1998. additionally, dissipation can occur if a storm remains in the same area of ocean for too long, mixing the upper 60 metres (200 ft) of water, dropping sea surface temperatures more than 5 °C (9 °F). Without warm surface water, the storm cannot survive.

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 3:55 pm

RoundEye wrote:I thought a hurricane needed warm air/water, cold weather just douses it out.

Obviously not.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:44 pm

RoundEye wrote:I thought a hurricane needed warm air/water, cold weather just douses it out.

FYI.. from two sources:

As it merges with an Arctic jet stream, forecasters said Sandy had all the ingredients to morph into a so-called "super storm," unlike anything seen over the eastern United States in decades.

The primary difference between a tropical cyclone and a wintertime cyclone is the energy
source. Tropical cyclones extract heat from the ocean and grow by releasing that heat in the
atmosphere near the storm center. Wintertime cyclones (also called extratropical or frontal
lows), on the other hand, get most of their energy from temperature contrasts in the
atmosphere, and this energy usually gets distributed over larger areas. Because of these
differences, tropical cyclones tend to have more compact wind fields, tend to be more
symmetric, and have a well-defined inner core of strong winds. Wintertime lows have strong
temperature contrasts or fronts attached to them, have a broader wind field, and more complex
distributions of rain or snow.

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 10:49 pm

Family in its path, hope everyone stays safe and it blows itself out or goes to sea.

BMED · Post by **BMED** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 12:30 am

RoundEye wrote:I thought a hurricane needed warm air/water, cold weather just douses it out.

1 oz white rum
1 oz Jamaican dark rum
1 oz Bacardi® 151 rum
3 oz orange juice
3 ozunsweetened pineapple juice
1/2 oz grenadine syrup
crushed ice

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:16 am

Bad recipe.

Never drink alone.

Thats the start of a problem.

6.5 never offsets

HOW do we like our fruit? 50/50 was cool back in the day.

Now with global warming/climate change?,

What was the question? "We are the champions",Queen

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:22 am

http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/radar/in ... tml?id=WKR

"The GreAt Pause"

blebs · Post by **blebs** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:07 am

Yeah well this about sums it up for me. Time to hit the liquor store.

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Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:35 am

Gov. Cuomo orders closure of subway, bus and rail service at 7 p.m. Sunday
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49586781/ns/weather/#__utma=14933801.805088527.1351431670.1351431670.1351437040.2&__utmb=14933801.4.10.1351437040&__utmc=14933801&__utmx=-&__utmz=14933801.1351431670.1.1.utmcsr=%28direct%29|utmccn=%28direct%29|utmcmd=%28none%29&__utmv=14933801.|8=Earned%20By=msnbc|cover=1^12=Landing%20Content=Mixed=1^13=Landing%20Hostname=www.nbcnews.com=1^30=Visit%20Type%20to%20Content=Earned%20to%20Mixed=1&__utmk=173260067

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:13 pm

blebs wrote:Yeah well this about sums it up for me. Time to hit the liquor store.

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Sweet, I'm in the LQ store spot! Little ole' Rhode island! Looking forward to some awesome waves!

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:07 pm

Schools already stating they're closing until Wed.
Voluntary evacuations encouraged around a few coastal towns around here.
They're really hyping this up behind all expectations of typical media overhype...lol. Good grief...whip everyone up into a frenzy media!

Gonna be windy, limbs 'n trees will fall, some may lose power for a bit...but we get through it. Part of living along the coast.
I consider hurricanes (or big tropical storms) to be easier to deal with than those that live in tornado areas...or bad earthquakes. Those things totally destroy homes. Hurricanes...usually much more minor damage.

I have to do a point of sale network install at a liquor store tomorrow..will stock up then!

And then two more liquor store POS networks throughout the rest of the week.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:41 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Schools already stating they're closing until Wed.
Voluntary evacuations encouraged around a few coastal towns around here.
They're really hyping this up behind all expectations of typical media overhype...lol. Good grief...whip everyone up into a frenzy media!

Gonna be windy, limbs 'n trees will fall, some may lose power for a bit...but we get through it. Part of living along the coast.
I consider hurricanes (or big tropical storms) to be easier to deal with than those that live in tornado areas...or bad earthquakes. Those things totally destroy homes. Hurricanes...usually much more minor damage.

I have to do a point of sale network install at a liquor store tomorrow..will stock up then!

And then two more liquor store POS networks throughout the rest of the week.

Maybe all this hype is to help CL&P be prepared this time

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:14 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Maybe all this hype is to help CL&P be prepared this time

LOL...yeah Irene caught them with their pants down! LOL

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:28 pm

National grid booked every open room in the hotel I manage. 56 rooms of 60 to national grid. The owner is happy! Lol

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:56 pm

My family and I are gonna take a beating on this one and my parents may lose everything as they live along the Delaware river which is expected to flood. I am right in it's path so it's gonna be a long time without power. Cya on the other side.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:05 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:LOL...yeah Irene caught them with their pants down! LOL

The snow storm after Irene is what caught them with their pants down.

BaLa · Post by **BaLa** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:39 am

This is gonna be an interesting one to watch.

Not sure what my Travel Agent has planned after delivering tomorrow.
But we don't do East Coast unfortunately it would be fun though.

BaLa · Post by **BaLa** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:39 am

Double post delete pls.

PsykoPenguin · Post by **PsykoPenguin** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:34 am

blebs wrote:Yeah well this about sums it up for me. Time to hit the liquor store.

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and get all that alcohol you can't afford.

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:16 am

PsykoPenguin wrote:and get all that alcohol you can't afford.

With red lights flashing, time to retire.

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:19 am

So since I live directly on the water (seawall stops it from entering our basement) took my servers offline and moved them upstairs. Went to the hotel I do work for and staying here for the day and Monday night. For the bubble :-) hoping no damage when I get home. Stay safe everyone

David · Post by **David** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:24 am

I am seeing patients this morning. Some see this as a day off, and choose to take care of their personal business.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:28 pm

stay dry and safe all you northeastern peeps

David · Post by **David** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:21 pm

Most of our barrier island shore towns are under water. Part of the Atlantic City boardwalk washed away.

The images are quite distressing.

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:28 pm

Yes. This quite a disturbing situation. I hope everyone that lives in the affected areas is doing well.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:55 pm

Stopping back in again.. guys this does not look good "at all". I just heard that the NYSE has 3 feet of water in it.
I have some friends and family living on Cape Cod, Mass. and at 1:00pm today.. they even have power outages and trees falling down... think about the distance that is, from say NYC or NJ!

I was thinking it may take a week in the major cites to clean up.. but I think it's going to take 2 weeks or more at least. The other thing to think about, is the financial problems this is going to cause. Not just in damage.. I mean if the subway's are shot makes it rough for companies to operate without employees. Just a lot of things.

Hopefully some of our New England and Tri-State members will post on their current status... praying for you.

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:47 pm

Luckily this one passed right on by my family in NC, hope everyone north of there is doing ok.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:37 pm

Shinobi wrote: Hopefully some of our New England and Tri-State members will post on their current status... praying for you.

It isnt bad here in CT, by the shore probably is, but the central area is doing better than when Irene hit last year, and much better than the winter storm after it.

I don't think theres too much to worry about with people getting to work, with snow storms we're use to that issue. People make it, and places run with reduced staff, it ends up working out.

EDIT: And I'm shocked, I still have power! The worst grid in the country is holding up well this time.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:15 am

Storm was like nothing here, we lost a tree branch. Our power even held out, looks like Meggie lost power though.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:03 pm

We got dumped on bad. Had a window blow out of the house, tree fell on north side, along the shoreline we lost a lot of trees...a major tree across the road about every block...so we'll be without power well towards the weekend.

At the office now, which is also without power, but on generator. Getting some of our clients up remotely..doing D/R 'n business continuity stuff.

Neighbors of ours closer to the water had the ocean surge come through their house....homes ruined..water through the living rooms, another neighbor had a huge oak tree squash their ranch home. Friend of mine that owns a package store had 3x feet of ocean in it.

A good friend of ours lost their house completely to the ocean claimed..he lived literally right on the water and his house is in the deep!

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:56 pm

Just a lot of wind and rain here. Never lost power.

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:59 pm

Just stopped in to check on our northern friends here on SG.. Sorry to hear about your friends & neighbors there Brian.. Glad you're ok and thanks for updating us. Hopefully you get power restored soon and can begin the cleanup/repair efforts. It sounds like you'll have a lot of work on your hands this week and into next on both ends of the spectrum (personal home stuff and plenty of extra work-related D/R stuff). Good luck with everything! Hang in there!

Debbie · Post by **Debbie** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:53 am

I still have electricity. I was worried about the trees around my house. So many wires going through them. 2/3 of New Rochelle is out of power.

A couple of homes in my neighborhood lost their aluminum siding.

My son is exhausted. He works for the Village of Mamaroneck and worked 24 hours straight. I'm waiting to hear from them today. They don't have power. I told them to come here to take a hot shower and fully charge their cell phones.

My sister lives on the other side of town by the Marina. She has no power. The surge carried a few boats into Hudson Park.

I have been just sitting here listening to the radio. Tuesday I hugged the tree in front of my house and thanked it for staying put. The wind was amazing!! My floors were vibrating!

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:05 pm

Debbie wrote:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, My floors were vibrating!

hummmmmmmmm, i wonder how that felt LOL

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:01 pm

Mark wrote:hummmmmmmmm, i wonder how that felt LOL

WARNING: Thread derailment imminent!

Debbie · Post by **Debbie** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:33 pm

Crazy bastards!!!

Debbie · Post by **Debbie** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:38 pm

New Jersey got hit hard. My heart also goes out to the people in the 111 homes that burnt down in Breezy Point, Queens.

Limited train service. I'm going in tomorrow just to take care of a few things and hopefully will be out of there by noon.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:56 am

Hope everyone made it through the storm okay.

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