Storm Sandy is here

[Hokiefyd]

Originally Posted By: doitmyself
I am saddened for the grief people are dealing with from this event and do not want to come off as a jerk. But, was there not enough time or other reasons that people did not move their vehicles to higher ground?


Look at all the comments on this website alone about how the media has overhyped the storm and it won't really be as bad as they say and they're just saying these things for more airtime, etc.

For as many comments like that that you read, there are probably 10 or 100 people actually THINKING that, people living in the path of the storm. These are the folks who make the choice to ride it out. Many people are now dead and damages are estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars. It's a sad deal.

Never turn your bad on a tropical storm, ever.

Our prayers go out to those who were directly affected by the storm. We ALL have been (or will be) affected by the storm when all is said and done, unfortunately.

 

[Trav]

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to all those people who say this storm is overhyped, you must be on another planet, but then those folks are what is called pot stirers just to rile up others imho

Not true. It was certainly way over hyped in some areas.
They knew the storm path was going to be way south of here 2 days before but no matter they wanted to right in the middle of it with 24hr min by min coverage.
They even had a guy holed up somewhere in the dark out on a porch or balcony just south of Boston with wind blowing all over the place when in fact that area didn't even loose power.

It was a terrible storm for some that's for sure and deserved all the coverage it got in those areas that were effected.
Here it was a little wind and rain with a little coastal wave activity, nothing that warranted min by min, wave by wave coverage and pre-empting other programs by the stations up here.

I see a weather alert on the weather app i have on my homepage almost daily. A red asterisk and the words severe weather alert.
It ranges from slight ground fog to bring your bloody plants in because its almost Nov and there may be frost.
Over time i have learned just to ignore the alerts and don't bother reading them any more.

Of course 24 hr min by min coverage of this has taken peoples mind of other things which IMO was the main stream media's intent in the first place.

When i said they over hyped the storm i meant they over hyped the effects of the storm here not the storm itself or other areas it effected.

 

[Vikas]

If you live in NYC and if your assigned parking spot is at the basement level, where do you think you would find a spot to park your car at higher elevation? We are talking about New York city here. The parking spots do not grow on the tree!

 

[Drew99GT]

Originally Posted By: Trav

When i said they over hyped the storm i meant they over hyped the effects of the storm here not the storm itself or other areas it effected.


You don't get it do you? 48 hours before it hit they had the general area where they thought it would make landfall, but it still could have gone 60 or so miles north or south. Would you still say it was overhyped if it made landfall 60 miles to the north and your property was damaged?

Like I said, weather man: [censored] if you do, [censored] if you don't.

 

[CROWNVIC4LIFE]

Originally Posted By: Vikas
If you live in NYC and if your assigned parking spot is at the basement level, where do you think you would find a spot to park your car at higher elevation? We are talking about New York city here. The parking spots do not grow on the tree!


The Port Authority Parking Garage on West 39TH Street..That is where I always parked when I lived there and still park when I visit..No issues with water in there.

 

[cchase]

Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: Trav

When i said they over hyped the storm i meant they over hyped the effects of the storm here not the storm itself or other areas it effected.


You don't get it do you? 48 hours before it hit they had the general area where they thought it would make landfall, but it still could have gone 60 or so miles north or south. Would you still say it was overhyped if it made landfall 60 miles to the north and your property was damaged?

Like I said, weather man: [censored] if you do, [censored] if you don't.


He's probably more like 300 miles north.

 

[andyd]

Missed me by that much. The easterly wind put us in the lee of the Cape. I found the storm coverage a refreshing change from all the political coverage. On the radar, I watched a low pressure area cut a swath from the Cape Cod Canal, straight up an going out to sea on Cape Ann. The eastern edge came to about 10 miles of me. I never lost power, but the towns west of me did. Yah, it was hyped, but nowhere near as bad as some of the storms are. I was ready, all the cars were gassed up, I had 6 gallons of water in 2 liter juice jugs. I had the gen-set running like a top. My preparations paid off, I didnt need anything. This time, I am gonna get some Marine Stabil and fill up the tank to the top, before I store the gen-set.

 

[buster]

Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: Trav

When i said they over hyped the storm i meant they over hyped the effects of the storm here not the storm itself or other areas it effected.


You don't get it do you? 48 hours before it hit they had the general area where they thought it would make landfall, but it still could have gone 60 or so miles north or south. Would you still say it was overhyped if it made landfall 60 miles to the north and your property was damaged?

Like I said, weather man: [censored] if you do, [censored] if you don't.


+1

 

[Trav]

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You don't get it do you?

Sure i get it. I have had my house and property damaged by severe weather a few times but that's no big deal as long s everyone is safe, i have good insurance.

Fact is they knew it wasn't coming anywhere near us but they had to have a blow by blow anyway, the only thing missing for these local yokels was some victims to put on the set.

I don't know about you but i don't need to see some poor buggers house demolished in real time 24hrs a day and not being able to do a bloody thing about it to help.

Tell me how the storm effected you?

 

[CourierDriver]

I live in Tn, sunny and nice most of the time, but we have moments.

 

[JHZR2]

Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: Trav

When i said they over hyped the storm i meant they over hyped the effects of the storm here not the storm itself or other areas it effected.


You don't get it do you? 48 hours before it hit they had the general area where they thought it would make landfall, but it still could have gone 60 or so miles north or south. Would you still say it was overhyped if it made landfall 60 miles to the north and your property was damaged?

Like I said, weather man: [censored] if you do, [censored] if you don't.


Actually damage was worse far north of the hurricane than south of it. We didnt even lose power, my parents had a car totalled in the mountains, 150+ miles north and inland. The hurricane went pretty close to over us and we didnt lose power. The shore has it worse, unfortunately that is to be expected. Folks I had to do a telecon with in MA yesterday didnt have power, I did. Water receded here really fast, up north, not so fast.

There is a lot of overhype. Its not to say that one shouldnt be vigilant and smart about dealing with big storms... But there is a lot of hype.

 

[Loobed]

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/world-event...-205212059.html

 

[Tempest]

Fuel waivers have been granted for the area:
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The waiver lets conventional gasoline be sold instead of cleaner-burning reformulated gasoline in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia and the District of Columbia. A blend of reformulated and regular gasoline will be allowed in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, and North Carolina.

The waivers last through Nov. 20.

The EPA also says New Jersey residents can use heating oil in emergency generators and pumps if cleaner diesel is unavailable.

http://online.wsj.com/article/APfada68f74d9e4fef9a9c7136a410be16.html

 

[Drew99GT]

Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: Trav

When i said they over hyped the storm i meant they over hyped the effects of the storm here not the storm itself or other areas it effected.


You don't get it do you? 48 hours before it hit they had the general area where they thought it would make landfall, but it still could have gone 60 or so miles north or south. Would you still say it was overhyped if it made landfall 60 miles to the north and your property was damaged?

Like I said, weather man: [censored] if you do, [censored] if you don't.


Actually damage was worse far north of the hurricane than south of it. We didnt even lose power, my parents had a car totalled in the mountains, 150+ miles north and inland. The hurricane went pretty close to over us and we didn't lose power. The shore has it worse, unfortunately that is to be expected. Folks I had to do a telecon with in MA yesterday didnt have power, I did. Water receded here really fast, up north, not so fast.

There is a lot of overhype. Its not to say that one shouldnt be vigilant and smart about dealing with big storms... But there is a lot of hype.


The eye went right over you. I'm not shocked you hardly felt anything. My point to Trav was if the center were to have been 60 or more miles or so to the north, the devastation that the Jersey Shore and NYC felt would have been...........60 or so miles to the north!

Just because your house wasn't demolished doesn't mean the hype wasn't real. Ask someone on Manhattan island of the storm was overhyped. First time the NYC subway has been flooded by a tropical cyclone. Lowest air pressure every recorded for a landfalling tropical cyclone north of the Carolinas. The storm will end up as the top or 2nd most expensive tropical cyclone to hit the US in history.

 

[JHZR2]

Oh I get that... And the expense was because of the states and areas that it hit...

But the entire area around here, all around, was way overhyped. it doesnt mean that it wasnt a giant noteworthy storm. Its just that it was. Its good to be vigilant, but beyond a point, IMO its just scare tactics to sell advertising.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

It wasn't over hyped for those who live in NYC or anywhere on the coast that may have been affected.

I live 350 miles in land. I was being told by the local media that I was going to get 6000000 miles per hour wind, 300000000 feet of rain, and all of upstate NY was going to be wiped off the map and that we were all going to run out of foood and water.

350 miles in land. It's just asinine they way they treat this , and ridiculous that people 350 miles in land get so riled up about this stuff.

Some day, there *IS* going to be a serious storm and a lot of people *ARE* going to lose their life because of the overhyping.

Case in point, any time we get a winter storm. The news goes absolutely nuts about it. Overestimates by a few feet (not even kidding), says winds are going to be much worse, pretty much says that the world is going to freeze over and we are all going to die. Then we get a dusting.

 

[Trav]

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Just because your house wasn't demolished doesn't mean the hype wasn't real

Of course it was real if you lived in an area that was really in this things path.
My point is up hear they knew it wasn't and by a long shot a whole day before hand.
Nevertheless they hyped this thing up to the point that HD and Lowes were sold out of generators, some stations were low on gasoline and closed and there was a run on the supermarkets like the end of the world was upon us.

To make matters worse they were considering cancelling school for the whole week until this thing limped in. They walked that back to school the next day.
The media really had some folks in a panic and that's not right either.

 

[buster]

It wasn't over-hyped. The lowest bp of any storm to hit land in NJ. It's going to be one of the most expensive to fix and they got the track down right. Parts of the Jersey shore are demolished. Seaside Heights in particular.

 

[demarpaint]

We got hammered, still no lights, power, phone or www, cell service sucks too. I headed over to a friend to get online and check emails. Lots of fires, explosions, etc, during the storm, we were lucky, no damage just the loss of power etc. I probably won't have power for another week. Gas is in short supply, those who have it for sale are pushing prices up over $4.50/gallon and the lines are close to a mile long. I watched a few fights over space in lines. I'm going to need gas soon, so it should be interesting, I might head out at 0400 and try and catch a station with power that might have gotten a fuel delivery, luck will be a big factor in it. Thank God for a wood stove, rechargeable batteries, and friends nearby with power. My neighborhood looks like it was bombed.

Anyone who said the storm was over hyped either didn't get hit by it, was lucky, asleep, dead, or not in its direct path.

 

[sprocketser]

Gee , that storm s been strong .