Exciting, ain't it?? Got your swim trunk yet ... perhaps you wanna jump in the flood for a little swim.
No where to swim. Not as much rain as I would expect but the wind is really really freaky... At times, I can feel the wind pounding at the building... Getting ready for hot pot but that dam wind is freaky as hell, I live at the top.... Like a train just ran pass...
yeah i just heard things crashed outside >_> making so many noises at my window x.x i can hear the strong wind blowing im getting scared lol
i just got back from outside in the middle of the road.... so friggin fun.....i just love playing in the wind
well the worst has supposedly gone past nyc... except its a little hard to clean up some of the messes in the middle of the night hopefully flooding recedes enough so i can go home!!
Reno you can come back to Aus instead but in all seriousness, hopefully there's not too much damage..
I'm preparing by playing STARCRAFT!!! Hurricane season for me is to play starcraft all day. W00T!!!!!! Has anyone seen the picture of the N train station in Brooklyn at Avenue U? Don't live around there but this is crazy.
Just when I thought it was clear, even saw some sunshine a min ago, now the rain and wind is back, it's back and forth with this storm... But it's ok for me, but the neighbors across the street have a small part of something from the roof ripped off and flooding around 6 blocks down the bay area...
Twenty six deaths now attributed to Sandy, hope all of you are safe and sound! *update: 29 people now reported dead and over 8 million without power
Like they had stated earlier, the fear for this storm was event size (and not wind or rain intensity), which dictates how much water surge there will be. The forecasts were for significant flooding and that part came true. With subway tunnels underwater, out break of fires, and thousands of residents trapped in high rise buildings without power; this was a storm that rivaled Katrina. As the governor of New York stated so eloquently, "...this is not good..." What really saved lives though, IMHO was the OEM had mandated evacuation along with shutting down the transit system, which force a city full of independent minded people to stay the fuck home. A lot of people were critical of the mayor and governor for stopping the subways and buses a day too soon; they didn't, they did this for a specific reason. They wanted everyone hunkered in their homes (except for the evacuation zones) and off the streets well before the thing hit. The low number of deaths bore out the infinite wisdom of their decision. [video=youtube;45IA4uC2jIs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45IA4uC2jIs[/video] [video=youtube;3DPfLHQoSRs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DPfLHQoSRs[/video] [video=youtube;eyRkkPXGC-A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyRkkPXGC-A[/video] Oh, and lest we forget: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politic...-the-tomb-of-unknowns-during-hurricane-sandy/
The worst is over, now we have to figure out how to clean this mess up and get all the transportation systems working again, so many places are flooded and roads blocked off. Some tunnels will take days to pump the water out. Going to be tough to get to work for some people.
The bad thing about this is not just the water dunking that these tunnels got, but the fact that this was salt water; this potentially creates huge issues of corrosion and all of the electrical equipment in every tunnel needs to be serviced before the tunnel can be returned to full use. It is going to be a long while before the subway system ever gets back on its feet. Here's a good map of what happened where in NYC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20131303 There are also several "before & after" pics there. And another explanation of why the storm was so damaging: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20146162
