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Great Nepal
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Postby Great Nepal » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:31 pm

Gauntleted Fist wrote:
Insel des Mondes wrote:That, uh, that doesn't look good.
I'd expect to see that on the Gulf Coast.

Apparently most of the coastal areas in Sandy's path are underwater.

Atlantic City Ocean:
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Postby Camicon » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:31 pm

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Postby Arumdaum » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:32 pm

What category is it?
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Postby The Emerald Dawn » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:33 pm

Arumdaum wrote:What category is it?

Category LOL.
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Postby Arumdaum » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:34 pm

The Emerald Dawn wrote:
Arumdaum wrote:What category is it?

Category LOL.

:lol:

Wait, if it's a category 1 hurricane, shouldn't it not be as bad? Or is there something else to it? Or am I just being stupid?
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Postby Mavorpen » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:34 pm

Arumdaum wrote:What category is it?

Category "I'll fuck you up, bitch."
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Postby Big Jim P » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:35 pm

I just drove home through the part that reached upstate NY. w00t!
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Postby The Emerald Dawn » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:36 pm

Arumdaum wrote:
The Emerald Dawn wrote:Category LOL.

:lol:

Wait, if it's a category 1 hurricane, shouldn't it not be as bad? Or is there something else to it? Or am I just being stupid?

Actually, the thing is anything from Tropical Depression to Category Charlie Foxtrot can be very, very damaging. The wind force is only of moderate concern, it's the rainfall and expected flooding that is a real killer.
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Postby Gaveo » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:36 pm

Great Nepal wrote:
Gauntleted Fist wrote:Apparently most of the coastal areas in Sandy's path are underwater.

Atlantic City Ocean:
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:lol2:
I see what you did there...
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Postby Farnhamia » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:36 pm

Arumdaum wrote:
The Emerald Dawn wrote:Category LOL.

:lol:

Wait, if it's a category 1 hurricane, shouldn't it not be as bad? Or is there something else to it? Or am I just being stupid?

Technically, it isn't a hurricane anymore since it lost it's eye and isn't over warm water. The winds are still sustained at 80 to 85 miles an hour, so technicalities don't mean much.
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Postby Mavorpen » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:36 pm

The Emerald Dawn wrote:
Arumdaum wrote: :lol:

Wait, if it's a category 1 hurricane, shouldn't it not be as bad? Or is there something else to it? Or am I just being stupid?

Actually, the thing is anything from Tropical Depression to Category Charlie Foxtrot can be very, very damaging. The wind force is only of moderate concern, it's the rainfall and expected flooding that is a real killer.

To be quite honest, wind is never really a major concern with hurricanes compared to rainfall.
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Postby Farnhamia » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:37 pm

Mavorpen wrote:
The Emerald Dawn wrote:Actually, the thing is anything from Tropical Depression to Category Charlie Foxtrot can be very, very damaging. The wind force is only of moderate concern, it's the rainfall and expected flooding that is a real killer.

To be quite honest, wind is never really a major concern with hurricanes compared to rainfall.

Tell that to the people who will return to homes without roofs.
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Postby Byzantium Imperium » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:38 pm

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Postby Arumdaum » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:38 pm

The Emerald Dawn wrote:
Arumdaum wrote: :lol:

Wait, if it's a category 1 hurricane, shouldn't it not be as bad? Or is there something else to it? Or am I just being stupid?

Actually, the thing is anything from Tropical Depression to Category Charlie Foxtrot can be very, very damaging. The wind force is only of moderate concern, it's the rainfall and expected flooding that is a real killer.

Ahh. D:
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Postby The Emerald Dawn » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:38 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Mavorpen wrote:To be quite honest, wind is never really a major concern with hurricanes compared to rainfall.

Tell that to the people who will return to homes without roofs.

That's why I said "moderate concern". It is, obviously, a concern, but isn't going to be responsible for as much damage as the water is going to be.
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Postby Mavorpen » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:39 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Mavorpen wrote:To be quite honest, wind is never really a major concern with hurricanes compared to rainfall.

Tell that to the people who will return to homes without roofs.

I did say COMPARED to the rainfall. Usually the lack of a roof is kind of overshadowed by the fact that their home was completely submerged.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:42 pm

The Emerald Dawn wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:CNN has intrepid reporter Anderson Cooper on the spot and he's not said anything like that. Given the amount of water in the streets, though, they might consider taking the word "City" out of the name.

I'm given to understand that Atlantic was ordered evacuated, and access from the mainland was cut off? Did this change?

no.

but i am out of power, so off goes the phone.

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Postby Byzantium Imperium » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:43 pm

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Postby Tsaraine » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:43 pm

I hope all our New Yorkers are safe and sound as the doomicane ravages their city.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:44 pm

Mavorpen wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:Tell that to the people who will return to homes without roofs.

I did say COMPARED to the rainfall. Usually the lack of a roof is kind of overshadowed by the fact that their home was completely submerged.

house being flooded is due to storm surge, not rain

but i am out of here
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Postby Farnhamia » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:48 pm

Here ya go, God's punishment: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/29/a ... al-agenda/
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Postby Birkinghamia » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:51 pm

Farnhamia wrote:Here ya go, God's punishment: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/29/a ... al-agenda/

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Postby United Kingdom of Poland » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:55 pm

Big Jim P wrote:I just drove home through the part that reached upstate NY. w00t!

was there, did that, got the tshirt,jacket,and hat for doing it.
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Postby Charlotte Ryberg » Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:02 pm

MTA has now closed the last tunnel out of Manhattan, the Queens Midtown Tunnel.
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Postby Miss Defied » Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:04 pm

Charlotte Ryberg wrote:According to BBC News, Huffington Post US Edition and Buzzfeed are down because the NY servers have been hit by power failures as a result of Sandy.

Power company shut down lower Manhattan. If their servers are there, that would explain it.
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