Storm updates

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9:00 p.m. EDT Monday: The United States Geological Survey (USGS) issued a landslide alert for Md., Del., Va., and southern Pa. “The most likely type of landslide triggered by this event will be shallow landslides on coastal bluffs in the Chesapeake Bay area and adjoining estuaries. In addition, some areas in the forecast area contain landslides that were caused by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee in 2011 that have not yet been stabilized.”

Only 15,000 without power in Philly. Pretty good!

@nydailynews: Flooding in lobby at @NYDailyNews in Lower Manhattan has now reached 3ft. http://bit.ly/SkKyvM #Sandy

If conditions are not safe on Wednesday for Trick or Treating, I will sign an Executive Order rescheduling #Halloween.
— Governor Christie (@GovChristie) October 30, 2012

Read more: http://live.nydailynews.com/Event/Tracking_Hurricane_Sandy_2#ixzz2AjojOoIZ

Sandy declared post-tropical at 7 pm. Post-tropical means a non tropical entity…regardless, wind gusts will exceed hurricane force along the North Jersey coast and will exceed 60 mph inland over the next few hours. The center of Sandy is currently working onshore shortly between Cape May and AC…it will push west-northwest through South Jersey and into Northern Delaware over the next few hours. Strongest winds locally in city for the next several hours despite little if any rain.

@mtainsider: Wind gust of 100 mph prompted us to close the RFK Bridge at approx 7:30 p.m. The bridge is now closed.

UPDATE: The storm is going south of the city and looks like it’s going to hit northern Maryland.

Deep thought: Sandy is a Keynesian! Expect plenty of construction jobs in the aftermath…

CLOSINGS UPDATE: All Wine & Spirit stores in Pennsylvania will be closed at 3 p.m. http://bit.ly/RXmmgo

“Worst cast scenario” for New York City? I’m praying for my kid and his wife.

Goldman Sachs prepares for the storm. Who needs government?

If you live in the area, here are emergency numbers for power outages.

Congressman Chaka Fattah: director of National Weather Service told him “no one’s ever seen” storm like #sandyinphilly.

Noon Map Discussion: We are now going with winds to 100 mph with #Sandy in NJ & Long Island S. Coast http://ow.ly/eQZF0

@holliesmiles Hurricane hunters confirm Sandy is now the most intense hurricane to hit N of NC ever – Beating the great hurricane of 1938

Gov. Christie: 63 miles of Garden State Parkway closed in both directions due to flooding. #Sandy. “As I said again, stay off the road.”

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Pressures have dropped down to 939mb in latest recon, The strongest Hurricane North Of NC since The LI express hurricane of 1938

cbs3 weather ‏@cbs3_wx
Sandy is stronger than the Long Island Express Hurricane of 1938. Pressure is down to 943mb! This storm is HISTORIC.

Part of the Atlantic City boardwalk is collapsing.

$100 billion in damages?

Many people who did not evacuate #AtlanticCity #NewJersey are now asking for assistance to leave. Atlantic City #NewJersey’s Fire Chief tells @tedgreenberg he has “never, never seen flooding like this.”

Tweet from people “riding the storm out” in Ventnor NJ:

Hurricane #Sandy intensifies — with sustained winds now reaching 90 mph. on.cnn.com/Pg1gMd

News report: “Most” of Atlantic City is under water.

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11 thoughts on “Storm updates”

  1. I hope rescue can get there. With Katrina and Dennis it wasn’t the storm, it was the flooding.
    Very little media coverage of flooding…. sigh….

  3. Gov. Christie: 63 miles of Garden State Parkway closed in both directions due to flooding. #Sandy. “As I said again, stay off the road.”

    Earlier, Christie was haranguing everyone to evacuate. How can they do that if they have to stay off the roads? Not everyone has a free state helicopter to whisk him around.

    BTW, exactly where are people supposed to evacuate to? There are perhaps 40 million people in the path of this storm. Where are there facilities to accommodate all those folks?

  4. Scratch that 40 million figure — that was my own estimate.
    Now the internets are saying 60 million.

    Of course, all the climate-change-denying Rethugs are busy cooking up ways to blame this all on Obama.

  5. They’re evacuating the people on the barrier islands, because the water cuts them off from the mainland. The barrier islands are very dangerous in a storm like this.

  6. And remember, FEMA is just a ‘luxury’ to our Repuke brethren . . . unless of course THEY need it; and climate change is a hoax.

  7. Sad that this has become another repub political talking point, though I was kind of hoping Sandy would hit SC instead of NJ. I know, I’m sick. God must love Gov. Christie. He gets to badmouth the federal government while he gets billions in federal aid to fix his crumbling state and all on somebody else’s dime.

  8. I’m so worried, Susie!! Fill a thermos with hot chocolate, keep your cell phone charged, and PLEASE — Hunker Down!!!

    xxoo
    katiebird

  9. On the Heights of Morningside, this was a non-event — thank the Supreme Being of your choice (if any).

    Many of my friends weren’t quite so lucky, but at the most they only seem to have suffered power outages.

    However, “Lie down, Susie, see what tomorrow brings…”

  10. Ahoy Susie. All present and correct this morning? I feel like I’m waiting to hear from Apollo XIII after re-entry.

  11. Ah, bom-dia. Good to hear from you. Now if you’ll pardon me, I need to check some other folk in the various urban hell-holes of Liberalandia.

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