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Flooding at the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel
It has been quite a night especially for those on the Atlantic Seaboard.
Atlantic City NJ is under water and the boardwalk has been mostly destroyed.
Lower Manhattan is in the dark from 39th street south do to a substation explosion and fire.
At least two tunnels and 6 subway lines have been flooded.
Most of lower Manhattan is still flooded.
NYU Hospital has had to be evacuated do to generator failure and flooding in the basement.
A massive 6 alarm fire has destroyed 50 homes in Queens in the Breezy Point area. Though one of their reporters has been tweeting it’s more like 100 – three full blocks.
A crane broke loose from a high rise construction in midtown and has been just hanging there. A large area around it has been evacuated.
Record flood tide recorded at the Battery Park area of 13.8 feet.
A tanker runs aground on Staten Island.
Two boys are killed when a tree struck their house in Westchester County.
Obama declares the tri-state area a major disaster.
And the HMS Bounty has sunk.
Photo by EliPongo under Creative Commons license
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And at least 7 million people are without power. Baby it’s cold outside too.
It is cold
Anyone hear from Cindy or seaglass?
No…but after hearing about the breezy Point fire I am concerned.
Neither of them is near Breezy Point. Cynthia’s on the north shore of Long Island and seaglass is near Atlantic City.
That being said, I’ll feel easier when we hear from them.
Thanks for the update c. Sorry the photo was copyrighted and we had to remove it.
I’ll see if I can find another to replace it.
There you go, hope that photo works. Thanks again for the update.
Promoted to fp.
Well the one I chose was a twitter pic that everyone was linking to at the time.
But I’ll imagine all pics from this storm will eventually be copyrighted even ones from cheapo cell phones.
The best video I saw last night was the weather reporter from WABC-TV reporting on the flooding of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.
She was reporting on it and later with the Governor. And they and a number of others were just watching it happen. Like “I don’t believe this.”
Opportunistic Bishop Mitt…will he talk about his disaster-relief history in Mass?
oh, that’s right. We don’t need no steenkin’ history….
While copyright exists upon creation, I wonder if it exists if a camera is let alone to record with no one attending it. Or what’s the IP issue if someone uses another’s camera/phone? (“Hey, how do I get it to record?” “Just touch the [whatever icon] and push the [whichever thing]“)
Any reports from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the mountain blizzards?
Are the Great Lakes indeed having 20′-30′ waves?
Oh yes, shouldn’t forget Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. They were predicting strong storm surges up there as well.
There was some sweet video that was live of the waves crashing against a sea wall on Lake Erie but could not find where it it was saved. From the local channel 5.
I’ll see if it has been archived now.
As for PA and WVA, WVA has received about 2 feet of snow. And Pa is mostly power outages. Delaware had coastal flooding and power outages.
Looks like NYC, Jersey and Connecticut shore got the worst of it.
On Edit; A pick I saw early on shows that Kittyhawk is no longer a good place to test experimental aircraft.
Local creek and low lying areas are having some flooding issues in western PA.
Some video of Lake Erie on Monday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN3LGV49r2k
And a photo slide show.
http://www.19actionnews.com/slideshow?widgetid=66023
Lake Erie really was having 20 foot waves early this morning. Parts of I-90 along the Lake shore are still closed. Most of Lakewood, just west of Cleveland, was without power and there were swathes of power outages all over NE Ohio. We had power, but I ran into street flooding in Euclid on my way to work this morning and had to take an alternate route.
The rain continues to fall, though the wind has abated some. Oh, and it was snowing in Ashland and Mansfield to the southwest of Cleveland earlier. If it wasn’t for the lake effect, it would be snowing closer to Lake Erie right now.
Local weather people who have been broadcasting for decades are saying they’ve never seen anything like this. I see no reason not to believe them. OTOH, they could just be part of the global warming hoax, LOL.
Western Ohio is dealing with the wind, along with some snowfall. It’s about 33 degrees here, about half an hour south of Toledo.
In Connecticut, over 600,000 are without power, but for the most part the temperatures remain reasonably warm – my town in CT is currently at 62 degrees and 100% out of power – another two dozen towns are also 90%+ out of power.
Some malls have opened to provide diversion, light, electricity to re-charge.
Flooding in Valley View…again.
“Still,” you mean
. Glad I don’t have to go that way. Oops. Lunch is over. Later.
Today completely sucks. The NE is half Zombie Apocalypse-style messed up and SD has passed on.
In related news, Neoliberals Use Disaster to Promote Neoliberalism:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/30/opinion/kayyem-obama-sandy/index.html
Yep, it’s a good time to start those Austerity programs up of 0 Grand Design.
Thanks for the link
Stay safe everyone.
“Never Waste a Good Crisis.”
Sigh.