FRANKENSTORM 2012

http://news.yahoo.com/noaa-east-beware-coming-frankenstorm-171317994.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — An unusual nasty mix of a hurricane and a winter storm that forecasters are now calling "Frankenstorm" is likely to blast most of the East Coast next week, focusing the worst of its weather mayhem around New York City and New Jersey.

Government forecasters on Thursday upped the odds of a major weather mess, now saying there's a 90 percent chance that the East will get steady gale-force winds, heavy rain, flooding and maybe snow starting Sunday and stretching past Halloween on Wednesday.

Meteorologists say it is likely to cause $1 billion in damage.

May or may not be as bad as predicted, but I wanted to start a thread titled "FRANKENSTORM 2012".

Weather Channel yawns skeptically

http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/New+York+NY+10013:4:US

The job repercussions for a forecaster who warns of a possible weather catastrophe that turns out to be nbd are miniscule compared to one who predicts bland weather and it turns out an epic catastrophe.

yes, but we consumers should proceed with jaundice.

Nothing to worry about, imo, unless they actually mean Frankenstorm's monster.

Weather Channel people fairly confident this thing will match the hype.

Much prefer anticipating this to another week discussing elections!

meh, in Florida

if only it happened on Election Day, THAT would be fun

i honestly thought this thread was going to be about some scandal involving Al Franken. especially because the most recent post was by Morbius.

plz he's too boring

that's why i was confused enough to eagerly click on the thread!

would definitely vote for "-storm" being the new "-gate"

i would rather an incoming storm be over-hyped than under-reported to be honest

otm

The job repercussions for a forecaster who warns of a possible weather catastrophe that turns out to be nbd are miniscule compared to one who predicts bland weather and it turns out an epic catastrophe.

are on-air meteorologists held accountable like that? i don't even know. but for public safety officials, yes, this is very true. one such official in RI was fired for lack of preparation for a snowstorm a few years ago -- the storm resulted in schoolbuses full of kids stranded in city traffic for 10 hours and general chaos.

reminds me of the time our high-school hosted a stage hypnotist. who took one girl from the audience and gave her the suggestion that there was a huge snowstorm coming, and that she had to instruct the audience what to do. she became visibly upset and started telling everyone to go to the store and stock up on bread and milk and go home. everyone was laughing hysterically at her and she became frantic, convinced of the terrifying reality of the snowstorm. even when the hypnotist brought her out of it she was still upset. fucked up.

stocking up on bread and milk is a crucial element of storm preparedness in rhode island, fwiw. i expect the most of the stores in the area to be sold out of whole milk by sunday.

RIP Lactose Intolerant People

the bread and milk panic is everywhere now, even in jaded Brooklyn.

If the subway goes out for 4 days again, iatee and I can revive our klassik feud over whether such service outage is acceptable.

is bread and milk a thing people do everywhere, because i always thought it to be a regional thing here

well in brooklyn its artisanal milk

Fuck this milk shit. Stock up on Hendrick's.

also I was not happy about the subway service being down last time, I was happy about the roads not getting plowed, cars stuck in the middle of the road. it was a winter wonderland.

scheduled to fly to Chicago from Baltimore early Sunday afternoon and supposed to fly back Tuesday night. dreading the potential clusterfuck this could lead to.

xp do these ppl have their own hens? cause if they have eggs they could make french toast. it is also nice to have syrup and nutmeg imo. the nice thing about hens is that if thepower goes out for a week, you can just keep getting fresh eggs. i guess it would then help to have a milking cow, too.

<i>is bread and milk a thing people do everywhere, because i always thought it to be a regional thing here</i>

In the DC area, the mantra is "BREAD MILK AND TOILET PAPER! BREAD MILK AND TOILET PAPER!!!"

Good news: I start a job on Monday.
Bad news: Said job requires me to drive up to Baltimore.

Groceries being delivered, new gentleman caller coming to watch soccer on the internet, laptop allows working from home...I hope it's a delightfully crippling blizzard.

I will make sure to get in plenty of wine, Alfred, don't you worry. (Not fond of Hendrick's.)

can't drink a damn thing, hope it's bone dry

Okay blizzard only north of the park, bone-dry south of.

I've got 3 bottles of wine and a vat of chile, but I need to spend the weekend Halloween-costume shopping.

Went to the hardware store and grocery because we needed some non-storm related stuff and knew it would only get crazier there as Sunday approaches; battery and water aisles decimated.

D.C., famous for hardy storm-weathering!

VP are you going to jump in the vat of chile?

I mean batteries I get, OK you need to power your flashlight but I don't understand the water thing? I've lived here through a ton of power outages (last one was 6 days) but there's never been a boil water order or anything like that. I mean clearly stocking up on booze is more important than stocking up on bottled water; booze does not come out of the faucet duh.

Water can get super bad. Also, people who have wells may not have access to water at all if the power goes out.

Currently planning to fly into Newark on Thu Nov 1st for NY vacation.

I will bring xtra books.

good luck east coast. <3

I can assure you that very few, if any, residents of our nation's capital are on well water. I'm not sure how city water gets super bad?

I mean I am no sanitation expert, just sayin' that I have yet to hear this happen except for the lollead problems of the 1990s.

If sewer water mixes with primary water (which almost always happens in flooding situations), you don't want to be drinking what comes from your tap (and you don't want to go outside and walk around in it, either).

Oh,that's right. you're talking about cityfolk. I don't know think you guys are going to have any problems with that. I'm probably screwed. My power's stayed on for the last few hurricanes, the derecho, and all of snowmageddon. My number's up.

somehow i totally forgot about weather and only learned about this a couple hours ago.

ARE WE GOING TO DIE, Y/N?!

must admit, totally selfishly, that i'm a little pissed because a project that i've been leading for the past 6 months is set to launch on MONDAY - looks like that might be delayed now. :(

Ohhhh OK I had not thought about flooding; I was thinging "so the power goes out, nbd for h20 tx amirite I mean they must have generators and stuff."

HL having the power out in ~60 degree weather is not so miserable, but when it was out for 6 days with temps upwards of 100, SUCKTASTIC

^^^an xpost, obv

ZS, we live about 5 miles away from the data center where the spouse works; his boss thinks this is to far and wants him to shack up at the NoMa Hilton more or less next door in case shit goes down Sunday night!

TOO not to blah blah blah

whoa! i didn't realize there was a data center there (i live a few blocks away from that NoMa Hilton)

Well it'll be gone in another year or so, moving that shit to Jersey yo

Also pls come do a storm party in the hilton hotel room (hell yeah I'm going, too! Bring on the room service on the company dime!)

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/krtgfxlive042103.jpg

FRANKENSTORM 2012

I'm gonna be pissed if this just turns out to be a week of non-stop drizzle.

last yr this exact time my power was out for ~1 wk
i live in a little condo & everything inc heat/water is electric
days are fine but it sux hard that it gets dark/cold @ 6pm
i would charge my laptop @ work, grab showers from a gym nearby, get in bed @ like 630pm & watch dvds til i went to sleep @ like 10pm

its so dark w/o light pollution, etc

i reacted with a seriousness to Irene. Brought home a (clean, new) 55 gallon trash bin and filled it with water for drinkin' in case tap became non-potable, bought a bunch of canned goods, etc. This time...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Camille

One persistent account about Camille states that a hurricane party was held on the third floor of the Richelieu Manor Apartments in Pass Christian, Mississippi, in the path of the eyewall as it made landfall. The high storm surge flooded and destroyed the building, and there was only one survivor to tell of the story of the others. Who the survivor is, how many party guests there were, and just how far the sole survivor was swept by the storm varies with the retelling. An ABC made-for-TV movie called Hurricane, starring Frank Sutton of Gomer Pyle USMC, Larry Hagman, Martin Milner, and Michael Learned, was loosely based on the supposed hurricane party. However, the site and names were changed to fictitious ones for the movie, as was the name of the hurricane. The television show Quantum Leap carried an episode regarding the parties of Hurricane Camille and the actual hurricane itself. Survivor Ben Duckworth is quoted in Hurricane Camille: Monster Storm of the Gulf Coast as stating that the Richelieu was a designated civil defense air-raid shelter. However, their faith in the building's sturdiness was unfounded, as it was completely demolished by the storm. Twenty-three people are known to have stayed in the Richelieu Apartments during the hurricane, of whom eight died. The tale of the lone survivor and the party appears to have originated with survivor Mary Ann Gerlach.[7] Other survivors, including Duckworth and Richard Keller, have expressed irritation at the story.[23][24] "The hurricane party never happened, nor was the number of deaths associated with the apartment inhabitants accurate," says Pat Fitzpatrick, Mississippi State University professor and author of Hurricanes: A Reference Handbook.[25]
The site of the Richeliu Apartments, the corner of Henderson Ave and US90 in Pass Christian, was later used for a shopping center. The structure was subsequently destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.

i made this to commemorate the event

http://i48.tinypic.com/34rufkw.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFWt25oRWpQ

if my power goes out again i vow 2 write a new interpretation of the hurricane party myth scenario

went to the grocery store, there was plenty of milk and bread, did not check for bottled water or tp #frankenstorm2012

33 degree temperature drop from this time yesterday.

whoa, really? Where are you at WilliamC?

http://i.imgur.com/FcqYp.jpg

NE Mississippi. Just looked at the numbers and it's actually just 30 degrees -- 79 yesterday, 49 right now.

http://my.sfwmd.gov/sfwmd/common/images/weather/plots/storm_18.gif

left turn, clyde

I can generally look at my current weather and predict what the southern part of the east coast is going to be like in a day. So y'all are about to get chillier.

We went from 84 to 54 in Dallas in the past 24 hours. Enjoy the cold front people.

Sandy to feed off near-record warm waters off the mid-Atlantic coast

During September 2012, ocean temperatures off the mid-Atlantic coast in the 5x10° latitude-longitude box between 35 - 40°N, 65 - 75° W were 2.3°F (1.3°C) above average, according to the UK Met Office. This is the 2nd greatest departure from average for ocean temperatures in this region since reliable ocean temperature measurements began over a century ago (all-time record: 2.0°C above average in September 1947.) These unusually warm waters have persisted into October, and will enable Sandy to pull more energy from the ocean than a typical October hurricane. The warm waters will also help increase Sandy's rains, since more water vapor will evaporate into the air from a warm ocean. I expect Sandy will dump the heaviest October rains on record over a large swath of the mid-Atlantic and New England.

of course, the near-record warm waters might something to do with climate change, but it would be stupid to mention that, wouldn't it? good thing no one else is either:

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sandy.jpg

anyway, my neighborhood is going to be so fucked with flooding. the hot issue in my ward is the terrible flooding that's been occurring in the streets, poor drainage, people's basements getting ruined, etc. even a "normal" rainstorm causes problems, and if there's any sort of sustained downpour at all, this shit happens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8LGSNeaJ74

that's a few blocks from my house, outside of my local bar. guessing it's probably going to be a liiiiittle bit worse this time.

I used to live in that neighborhood! Lived on the first block of S St west of North Capitol. It was scary back then though. I've heard it's much better now.

There are 7 bottles of wine in my house. Storm can bring it.

woah man the grocery store was bonkers tonight

Yesterday when I left work in Cleveland it was 81. Today it was 48.

i dunno, looking at the forecast for nyc doesn't seem that impressive so far -- temps still in the upper 50s, maybe 2 inches of rain?

also the nws keeps using impact as a verb

I'm beginning to wonder if I should try to cast an early ballot at a satellite center tomorrow, given the likelihood that Pepco will shit the bed again. Anyone have any experience with early voting in DC?

pepco is an inveterate bedshitter, but i'd still be surprised if there were no power on nov. 6

the nws keeps using impact as a verb

verbing impact is a very impactful

ouch

pepco is an inveterate bedshitter, but i'd still be surprised if there were no power on nov. 6

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I canceled my NYC trip. :-(
Will be rerouting through LA instead.

I used to reside in Bloomingdale part-time before the spouse and I colocated! I love it there, but was shocked at the seemingly out-of-nowhere flooding that has been a problem as of late.

So help me with my frankenstorm planning. S will be relocated to a hotel near the data center tomorrow to mind the shop through the storm. I'd rather hang at home, but if the power goes out, I'll want to high-tail it to somewhere with electricity i.e. join him at the hotel (which has generators). What are the chances I could get myself to NoMa from CP just after the storm passses? OK nevermind this is already sounding like a dumb plan.

It's dirty here in NYC anyway, wait till the storm washes out all the pee

someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets

OK so how come planes and boats get lost in the Bermuda triangle but not hurricanes? HUH?!

lol at bread and milk as regional food staples

haha yeah

don't really get the stocking up on milk thing though. milk goes bad, right?

went to the store today, actually wasn't as crazy as i thought it'd be. not as bad as with irene or past snowstorms at least. got bread, some snacks, and a 5-gallon watercooler jug, for drinking but also for the toilet

people were going nuts buying water this morning and as i walked out i noticed no one saw the boxes of 6 1-gallon bottles sitting there. i got 2 gallons so i have a total of 3. i also got a box of wine and some meat. i already have tons of toilet paper so i'm good. i can poop outside if the toilet stops working, this is baltimore.

have half a fifth of rye bourbon left, hopefully it will be enough

My sole preparation is ensuring my ipad is fully charged beforehand because i'm so first world. We have underground power lines that have only gone out once in the 20 months i've been here, but we're also on the Potomac so I don't know what that means. I should be more worried than I am, probably, and certainly thinking about it more than "stepping outside for cigarettes is gonna be a real pain".

also glad to see the 'frankenstorm's monstorm' gag was done here so quickly. good work everyone!

I'm not a bourbon drinker, but 1/2 of a 5th does not sound sufficient. Please stock up while there is still time for god's sake.

I still have most of the deli-religious candles I bought the last time disaster was supposed to strike. I don't think I need any batteries because I have no battery-operated devices. What else should I get? Bread and cheese?

The idea of disaster preparedness in NYC is sort of ridiculous to me. I feel like there will be pizza deliveries made right up until the final apocalypse.

i've got a fifth of a fifth, 700mL of tequila and 3 beers

don't really get the stocking up on milk thing though. milk goes bad, right?

I can endure a lot as long as I have a good cup of coffee, with milk. (Hoped-for scenario: I am housebound for whatever duration, but the power stays on/goes out for no more than a couple hours. In retrospect I should have have gotten those little shelf-stable tetrapak juiceboxes of milk.)

I've got two half-empty bottles and two full bottles of rye, so I decided to pass on wine. And I did go cast an early ballot, but that had more to do with my upcoming new job.

milk is available in shelf-stable boxes from Horizon, and when I was getting groceries this morning, people had completely overlooked them.

like, you could get that at whole foods or a more progressive Giant or Safeway.

http://icons.wunderground.com/metgraphics/angela/Sandy.A2012301.1830.2km.jpg

sheesh

looks wet

Hold on to yr hats and other things, dear people! x

guess i should probably buy an umbrella sometime before monday night

though i know that this will happen

http://trend911.com/wp-content/251.jpg

nnngh, aw man

Megabus canceled my trip from NY to DC tomorrow night; bought an Amtrak ticket for about the same time and hoping they'll hold out, since it's presumably harder to blow a train off the tracks than a double-decker bus off the NJ turnpike.

that image looks like some apocalpytic shit man

every hurricane looks like that tho

i have to get from bethesda to CT wednesday morning. I was going to drive, but maybe I'll take the train

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azV5bC2br-Q

http://i.imgur.com/e7LN7.png

*plays taps*

wow @ z_s apocalypse flooding

storm expected to hit here near DC later tonite. I actually got a robo-call from the power company telling me to expect power outages (which seem to occur here whenever wind gusts reach 20mph)

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

Sandy's central pressure is expected to drop from its current 951 mb to 945 - 950 mb at landfall Monday night. A pressure this low is extremely rare; according to wunderground weather historian Christopher C. Burt, the lowest pressure ever measured anywhere in the U.S. north of Cape Hatteras, NC, is 946 mb (27.94") measured at the Bellport Coast Guard Station on Long Island, NY on September 21, 1938 during the great "Long Island Express" hurricane.

Last night's 9:30 pm EDT H*Wind analysis from NOAA's Hurricane Research Division put the destructive potential of Sandy's winds at a modest 2.6 on a scale of 0 to 6. However, the destructive potential of the storm surge was exceptionally high: 5.7 on a scale of 0 to 6. This is a higher destructive potential than any hurricane observed between 1969 - 2005, including Category 5 storms like Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Camille, and Andrew

Good luck, eastern seaboard.

http://filmjournal.net/paulwjm/files/2007/04/deepimpact.jpg

it was nice to go grocery shopping on sunday afternoon, after all the scaredycats had rushed the place the 2 previous days, it wasn't as crowded as it usually be this time of week and nothing was really picked over to the point that we had trouble finding what we wanted, aside from having to settle for a medium-sized jug of apple juice because the big ones were all gone.

and you've got the Kendrick Lamar album to keep you warm.

Silby, Amtrak is cancelling as well.

Bought a disgraceful amount of Hormel products :/

Office confirmed closed tomorrow with the possibility of Tuesday as well. Huh.

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stuff in like every county except the one i work in is closed for tomorrow already. this always happens to me!

i dont have batteries for my flashlight

emergency preparedness fail, amirite

Tao Lin: maybe I should've "taped" my windows. I look with a "blank expression" at the "shards" of glass.

6av trader joe's had a line a block long coming out of the store

Still wavering on whether to pre-emptively evacuate. I'm less worried about flooding than I am about a tree dropping through my house. My parents are 30 miles away and have offered to put us up. My in-laws live up the street in a house that's even more above the flood-zone than I am, but I don't want to stay with them. lol. Well, plus they have the tree problem too. I kinda want to stay close by though to keep an eye on things though. Is that a responsible impulse, or just misguided? Like "get the fuck out of there!"

I can't find any decent information on what sort of flooding is expected up the Chesapeake Bay. I like NYC's flood evacuation zone maps.

I'm thinking I should bring my plants off the fire escape and do something about the garbage can lids in front.

even more above the flood-zone than I am

We are above the official fema flood zone, according to the documentation that we got when we bought the house, but it's like, a matter of being several feet above the highest point flood-waters have reached.

sigh. just gonna hope i guess.

We are totally stocked on non-perishables, wine, water, and whiskey. I have the day off work tomorrow. Really hope this doesn't turn ugly.

Also *everybody* on the subway home today was carrying bags/suitcases/backpacks, etc.

If you run out of whiskey, let us know. I'm sure we can spare some.

that's what I heard!

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/nyc-evacuation-zones-20121028

If the weather gets interesting and we're all bored and shut in, we could have a storm-watching party.

I am game for the storm watching party. Also, we have a board game we've never played because it requires a min. of 4 players, so

and you've got the Kendrick Lamar album to keep you warm.

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:28 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ew what

And I have Bookchase!

R is writing tonight but tomorrow day we're game!

what does it mean that this is the lowest pressure our region has ever experienced in a storm?

free toots and the maytals concert in the park is what it means.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGwHgg7hjMw

I am game for the storm watching party. Also, we have a board game we've never played because it requires a min. of 4 players, so

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, October 28, 2012 5:28 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

oh man now I wanna come over

haha i just got my wife a min. 4 player game for her birthday, really want to contrive a storm watching party now

it's called wits and wagers and I have no idea how it's played

storm party!

http://i50.tinypic.com/4t95lg.png

I place 2 wits on the board

gonna go get our last dinner out (in the neighborhood) right now

Oh lol I just played Wits & Wagers last week at someone else's house. We can figure it out.

mordy you're familiar with atmospheric pressure?

I went out to go get food and I came back with a few nuts and carrots and a lot of beer

I think I have to go back out and get food

youre gonna die

I have a hard time taking this seriously still

i had a job in Baltimore on Monday that finally inevitably got postponed, now i get to stay home yay

I'm not really sure how freaked out I should be about this in Philly. I've got a decent amount of non-perishable food, a flashlight and replacement batteries, and I'm going to make sure I have a bucket (in case of any leaks) and maybe some duct tape for the windows. Also debating parking my car in a garage overnight tomorrow instead of on the street for extra flooding/limb insurance.

lol: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/06/14/244973/mitt-romney-federal-disaster-relief-for-tornado-and-flood-victims-is-immoral-makes-no-sense-at-all/?mobile=nc

i don't have to go into my internship tomorrow, which means the journal club i'm giving might be canceled altogether too?

my mom is needling me to fill up my gas tank. it's half-full, i figure that'll last me. gas isn't cheap

court is closed but not my office, i think i still should go bc i have things to do :(
i have plenty of food, a whole bunch of eggs, chicken, yams, squash, cans of beans. also gas stove. i'm totally prepared.

and my car is almost full of gas but i'm not gonna have to evacuate

Hurricane Beeyotch

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it would be awesome if the operating status had tens of thousands of facebook likes

and if it was all a coordinated effort of ron paul supporters

what does it mean that this is the lowest pressure our region has ever experienced in a storm?

It all reduces down to thermodynamics, Boyle's Law, and what happens to air in areas of low pressure. When the air pressure is low, air rises, cools off, and then condenses into moisture, wind, etc. Setting aside a lot of atmospheric dynamics, you can think of a hurricanes as a giant feedback loop of this cycle.

More here: http://www.weather.com/weather/videos/news-41/weather-explainers-576/pressure-matters-why-sandy-could-be-wicked-31880

they've got the hurricane episode of family guy playing on tv right now. timely!

we have "liberal leave for non-essential employees." i like to think i'm pretty essential!

What everyone is freaking out about is a replay of Hurricane Donna in 1960. Here's what the corner of West and Cortland looked like in the aftermath

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcmbuwqvdz1qz802uo1_500.jpg

nuts!

Don't forget to stock up on ice (or just make a bunch in your freezer). Especially if you're throwing a hurricane party. I'll forever associate Katrina with the taste of warm budweiser.
Also, easy way to stock up on water is by filling the tub.

liberal leave is such bs

i used to go for walks with my grandfather on the Jersey shore and he would point out piers that got knocked out during the '60 storm

Will there be disaster sex this time around, or just disastrous sex?

I still pay for a land line because of hurricanes. Make sure laptops and mobile devices are as charged as they're gonna be.

Be safe, guys.

my tub is really dirty I dont wanna fill it with water

flavored ice

i was thinking about filling a big plastic storage container with water for the toilet. i don't think i will though.

they shut down the water to our building once, for a morning, because they had to clean out the tank. I had to go really bad but luckily there was enough water in the tank for one more flush.

brb buying a stillsuit

stillsuit? Yuck. I don't want to drink your pants liquor.

I really have no idea how seriously I should be taking this storm.

s thinking about filling a big plastic storage container with water for the toilet. i don't think i will though.

thought this said "I was thinking about filling a plastic storage container with water from the toilet." Which is clean water! If the toilet is clean.

Last time I froze giant tubs of water to cool the freezer, but right now it's so full of food I couldn't get anything else in there! Hopefully the volume of eats will keep it cold if we keep it SHUT.

It seems to be all abt the storm surge right now, much less so the wind impact. So how seriously you take it depends on yr proximity to water etc. But those on low ground need to take it v. seriously, as far as I can make out.

My NYC-based company is going to keep the head office open, but is primed for DR, fwiw.
Xp

Can't stand the media meme where every storm/disaster has to have its own NAME OF DOOM

I really have no idea how seriously I should be taking this storm.

Where are you, and what would help you make a decision?

But won't water flow to NYC homes based on city water pressure anyway?

perhaps, but it may be mixed with sewage

Nothing in the tank of my toilet has been replaced or cleaned in probably 30 years, so it's pretty much a disgusting stew of metal and rubber parts degrading over a few decades anyway. If it gets sewage in there, I'll just dump some bleach in the tank once this is all over.

I'm in Alexandria, Va. On the fourth floor of an apartment building that is on the Potomac. Having grown up in Mobile, Al, I'm pretty used to hurricanes but it's hard to cut through the ZOMGness of the coverage to understand how bad it is likely to be. xposts

I just remembered that if things get really bad, there are cockroaches in the kitchen which I shall hunt

If it gets that bad, the cockroaches are gonna be hunting you.

cockroaches = land shrimps

all the more reason to start constructing cockroach spears now

doesn't look like there's much if any storm surge expected for the chesapeake/potomac

the hudson, however . . .

the raritan bay area is supposed to get surges of 12-15 feet. there's quite a bit of new construction in perth amboy (condos and such) along the waterfront. so it could get ugly over there.

http://cheshireloveskarma.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/close-up-w-roach-sm.jpg?w=300

4th floor here, well inland from the Gowanus.

is that a euphemism for Chris Christie

the idea of the gowanus overflowing its banks is p. gross

Stay safe, everybody. Will admit to chuckling when a Twitter commentator referred to Christie's CRISIS FLEECE.

has anyone yet blamed nyc's sinfulness for its impending doom?

you non-NJers know more about what my Fat Governor is doing/saying re Frankenstorm than i do.

though i anticipate that thoughts of "i get to emulate Giuliani-on-9/11" are going through his thick skull.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/view/prodsByState.php?state=PA&prodtype=public

3. IF YOU ARE RELUCTANT, THINK ABOUT YOUR LOVED ONES, THINK ABOUT
THE EMERGENCY RESPONDERS WHO WILL BE UNABLE TO REACH YOU WHEN YOU
MAKE THE PANICKED PHONE CALL TO BE RESCUED, THINK ABOUT THE
RESCUE/RECOVERY TEAMS WHO WILL RESCUE YOU IF YOU ARE INJURED OR
RECOVER YOUR REMAINS IF YOU DO NOT SURVIVE.

Alfred, read up on Brooklyn's lavender canal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowanus_Canal

I'm on the southwestern tip of the Bronx. Metro-north Hudson line runs right beneath my apartment.

chris christie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoSzetoxZ34

I just remembered that if things get really bad, there are cockroaches in the kitchen which I shall hunt

― 乒乓, Sunday, October 28, 2012 7:18 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dogg u r v near the evacuation zone no

haha lag∞n, I was just quoting that earlier today

So in the event that nyc tap water becomes at all mingled with sewage and therefore v v non-potable, how do ppl actually receive word of that? Is there an alert system of some sort? Or just... the smell test

i used to go for walks with my grandfather on the Jersey shore and he would point out piers that got knocked out during the '60 storm

Was reading about Cliffwood Beach, NJ - the boardwalk and amusement parks were basically scraped clean by Hurricane Donna in '60 and never replaced. The ruins occasionally reappear over the sand dunes.

From @boweryballroom: "Folks - tonight's Swans show is still happening as planned - see you there!"

Can't help but think that being at a Swans show during FRANKENSTORM seems appropriate.

my tap water tastes a little weird right now, no reason it should

http://hint.fm/wind/

good luck usa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C2IQK1yPNk

i had a job in Baltimore on Monday that finally inevitably got postponed, now i get to stay home yay

Me too! Where in Baltimore?

in canton

Okay, I'm going to be downtown (within walking distance of the convention center/Camdem Yards). But when I get my commute settled, Baltimore FAP?

http://i.imgur.com/G4v61.png

I am in the green bordering the yellow where it says PIKE, also I live on the 7th floor

also I only recently learned of this but is it okay for me to say that I live in TWO BRIDGES from now on

hey i been dere

i am down w/ baltimore fap, maybe we can get horseshoe in on it if school is canceled

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcmpp3ZANY1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

http://hint.fm/wind/

awesome find caek!

I want to pet that

so psyched for when the looting will start

you know yes i would buy a shag carpet usa

njt down so we half in the bag already. sup?

hang onto your hats, all u elite new yorkers - be safe! or be boozed! hopefully both <3

Looks like the Capital Region (upstate NY) will be spared the worst; hope everyone south makes it through OK.

Shit, I forgot to buy back-up cigarettes. One left.

Debating going out shortly to see if any bodega is open--think it's worthwhile?

nah wait til the blackouts and riots

American Spirits, though, they're not everywhere.

it's not that bad outside atm so why not

I kinda want it to be bad soon

Yeah I might need to get my bike out, the places that sell my brand are not that close...but I think I will.

the storm's not actually hitting til like tomorrow night

tmmrw night supposed to be the worst of it in philly

everyone play risk

Emerging from Whole Foods laden with bags of groceries, Danny and Laura Fletcher, a British couple who had just moved to the city, were sceptical of the reaction of New Yorkers. "We've just bought a big roast lunch," said Danny Fletcher.

i probably should have done laundry this weekend

just put yr clothes on the fire escape

U might want to clothespin them really good, tho.

both referring to some vegetables you just bought as 'a roast lunch', or buying anything substantial enough to count as a roast lunch from the whole foods food trays: terrible behaviour

brits, savages

i wonder if they tipped

I bought lunch from the whole foods food trays the other day, it was pretty good

not that bad outside? there's NOTHIN goin on here!

gusts up to 70mph tomorrow in nyc

that's solid

the wind made some car alarms go off, that's 'something' I guess

Woo cigs and backup cigs bought. I'm in the money.

I kinda want to get some candy at the cvs at the end of my block

is it worth risking my life in 20 mph winds

depends on what kind of candy

and CVS always plays unexpected hits

reeses probably

nothin going off in Kensington cept dodgy Ukrainian food.

okay I'mna go

if I die I donate my inevitable modding tomorrow (poll: the hunt for the next ilx mod) to k3v

is it worth risking my life in 20 mph winds

Get ten pounds of those Ferrero Rocher things.

theyre canceling school all over the place in vermont lol people come on

the forecast calls for showers tomorrow

I got peanut butter m&ms instead cause they were a better deal

nobody is outside so it's kinda creepy but not really so windy

#sandyliveblog

did u loot at all

well the m&ms were buy one get one free, so in a sense I looted one of them

Sheeeeit, we got 20 mph tonight here in Chicago.

#prayforiatee

MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON OUR SOULS

http://fcsl.edu/blogs/gpi/files/2012/07/day-2.jpg

my neighbors are either having a hurricane party or a regular party, it's hard to tell

http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac312/foodfightfilms/soylent/soylent3.png

tropical storm force wind gusts is such bullshit terminology

Real windy here in Atlanta. My cat - who usually goes missing for a day or two and then just shows up for 10 minutes to get me to feed him before heading out again - is scared of storms and has been sleeping in crazy cool yoga positions on my bed all day.

if those brits above were talking about the whole foods REAL MEAL then they made a wise choice

"take a look at the cone of uncertainty"

Obligatory photoset of empty NYC transportation stations: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/

http://i.imgur.com/oYROu.jpg

time to die

http://www.jewishjournal.com/images/thegodblog_images/Koufax-734194.jpg

Those photos may be "obligatory" but they are rawther cool. I go through Grand Central twice a day, 5x a week, and you just never see it like that.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/16/Sandy_West.jpg/220px-Sandy_West.jpg

http://icons.wunderground.com/metgraphics/angela/Sandy.MODIS.10282012-small.jpg

man, a friend of mine had been planning a trip to the united states for two years and is now spending the trip trapped in a hotel room.

is that red dot where james brown was born?

man, a friend of mine had been planning a trip to the united states for two years and is now spending the trip trapped in a hotel room.

That's terrible. But hey, weather.

u shd forward them my top ten places to loot in nyc blog post

this is fucking stressful yo

Being in NY during a historic storm is kind of exciting! They can walk to Times Square or wherever and take photos of it, utterly deserted as it NEVER otherwise is--you could very easily sell this as lucky, imo.

^ great point

yeah just go walk around a grocery store & muscle in on the local hysteria, it's all pretty exciting & v 'new york'. a long trader joe's line w/disquieted locals >>>>>>>> the empire state building

manhattan in 2013 is just an endless trader joes line, from the bottom of the island to the top

wait it's 2012 not 2013

all these 2010 years still seem futuristic and make believe to me

trader joes is not a real thing that exists, the year is 1982

The year is 6012. Trader Joe's has gone and come again.

I was in the eye of the hurricane and it was actually a time warp....I'm glad I stocked up on trader joes enchiladas

mail me a jetpack from the future plz

Is this thread like the mailbox from The Lake House?

that's what I'm
hoping

Sandy. Opening salvo of the End of the Mayan Calendar apocalypse? Or just a fucking big slow-moving hurricane? Enquiring minds want to know.

Being in NY during a historic storm is kind of exciting! They can walk to Times Square or wherever and take photos of it, utterly deserted as it NEVER otherwise is--you could very easily sell this as lucky, imo.
― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Monday, October 29, 2012

You all are freaking me out...

I like this image:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/tafb_latest/refresh/danger_atl_latestBW+gif/030345123_sm.gif

I am LOLing very hard at that weather channel map up there, there is no evidence of any 'ACTION' here in Pittsburgh.

No, wait, an Animal Shelter in Kittaning has evacuated because of flood risk on the Allegheny.

http://i.imgur.com/oYROu.jpg

Sure that's the same map was in Red Dawn.

I have been pondering the idea that storms like this are common, and seem to fairly regularly knock out power for some time on the east coast. Wouldnt you guys have gone with underground power to stop that from happening, by now? I suppose its costly... but so is massive areas being shut down for a week!? It never happens here.

This is America, son. Infrastructure spending is for pussies and Communists.

Trayce, this sort of thing is best left to the private sector.

no work so my son's staying home from daycare and we're riding the couch hoping we don't lose power or anything. the wife insisted on going into work for a couple hours, at the moment it just looks/feels like another rainy day out there so hopefully she's not taking too crazy a risk by doing that.

My wife has insisted that we stay home rather than evacuate, because a trusted neighbor is also hunkering down. This probably means that when things get shitty, we'll be heading to her parents' house (larger, but in our same neighborhood) rather than to my parents' house (30 miles away in Columbia, with no large trees around to potentially crush it).

I just had to bike through this, it wasn't fun.

hey everybody

please stay alive & safe

thanks <3

i decided not to go into work today. it isn't so bad here, raining super hard and very windy but nothing dangerous yet i don't think. still, it's supposed to get worse during the day so i'm going to just stay at home. power still on, etc etc.

this doesn't seem so bad. now i'm afraid i'll have to work tomorrow.

hasn't really hit here yet, but it's more than likely there will be lots of flooding & power outages & all sorts of nonsense. i came into work a couple hours early today so i'll feel no guilt cutting out at a moment's notice.

the biggest problem i'm having right now is staying awake, i swear that huge drops in air pressure just make me so sleepy. i think i slept for 13 hours of irene

Yeah, I'm normally an early riser, but I slept in until almost 8 yesterday. Also, think I can attribute my sinus headache to pressure weirdness,

^this apparently "means nothing" per all the authorities.

Obligatory photoset of empty NYC transportation stations: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, October 28, 2012

Well, I'm confused that these went up before midnight when iatee assured us the trains wd still be running at 3am.

Here in the outer bands in Cleveland, it's very, very rainy and windy. I can see the surge on Lake Erie from my office window, and it's pretty cool to look at. I almost biked in to work this morning, since it wasn't very windy in the 'burbs 8 miles out, but downtown there are sustained winds of about 18-20mph with occasional 40+ gusts.

but I slept in until almost 8 yesterday.

no, you SLEPT in UNTIL almost 8.

(pet peeve)

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/121029123858-sandy-sat-825-mon-horizontal-gallery.jpg

RIP America

i see delicious soft-swirl

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSLdOjua87Yr9Jg7UZfTJTjzW5vKOnAZhIahGDGpOQuimgndHeH
Duck and cover, punks

This one is cute:

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTZzbdyOoNxFfpbGhdNW1rA26ry3nViz3fCmrnSy1QWOt3c6HpHNA

18-20 foot waves predicted for Lake Erie today btw.

Excited to do some storm cooking; realized key ingredients were growing outside; ventured outside to gather herbs/greens/carrots; sensed doom

Kind of annoyed that the Post wasn't delivered this a.m. I mean come on guys

How the fuck am I supposed to know when the storm is gonna hit

now I kinda wanna go to times square and take pictures. are cabs still running? is there a hurricane surcharge?

has the MTA flickr acct been linked in here yet?

every time an article calls this a 'life threatening' storm i think that it would be much more dramatic if they called it a 'life changing' storm

http://i.imgur.com/FJMRz.jpg

it would be amazing if there was one sandy death on the eastern seaboard and it was her

building is swaying and making me dizzy

all cleveland offices should be closed today

lohan otm

brownie meet me at the Tap Room in 15 minutes, we'll wait this thing out tanked to the gills

oh lindsay (i'm calling her lizzie)

lohan, looking out the window in los angeles and thinking she's in new york: i don't know what all the fuss is about, it's beautiful outside!

Updates, NYC flooding pics, and no NYTimes paywall:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/hurricane-sandy.html#sha=1ee002907

I'm out of a few key things and didn't run out of them/realize it until last night. Think I'm hopping on bike to supermarket and hoping they're open. No rain here yet just some gusts.

whoa xp

hmm since I am super close to the flood zone maybe I should go take pictures of the flooding

Lindsay Lohan, like many Americans, seems to believe Frankenstorms are the result of bad vibes, not global warming.

http://i.imgur.com/pmVQL.png

kinda disappointed im not there, its like 9/11 all over again

Virginia is getting its ASS HWOPPED

i got some terrible winter beer at the store last night now im stuck with it for the storm wtf

That's what happens when you project negativity.

Live cam from 51st floor of NYT building, so you can see, uh, the sky? I guess? Anyway http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/nyt-webcam.html?smid=tw-nytimes

Next picture on the site will be

http://content.animalnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/the-day-after-tomorrow-flood-new-york-city.jpg

http://www.sesamestreet.org/parents/topicsandactivities/toolkits/hurricane

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/northeast_loop.php

dear god

http://i.imgur.com/HYhrA.png

Skene's gland at work!

its like 9/11 all over again

no, check yr calendar

asian carp are leaping on to wall st!

yum

right into woks filled with water chestnuts and frommage and celelery!

http://gawker.com/5955757/battery-park-is-underwater-and-sandy-hasnt-even-hit-yet

Just went out to dunkin donuts (don't judge--it's the closet coffee shop) and then made a raid on the health food store. It's really quiet weather-wise and I'd say 75% of the shops are still open.

Iatee, should we go out drinking tonight? I'll probably be over staying home by just around the time the storm is expected to hit.

Dr. Morbius--you are famous. MOMI used your article on Psycho in their handout yesterday. Great job!

What the hell? Why can't the hurricane hit when it's supposed to hit? Premature evacuation.

yeah if things are open tonight / storm is not killing people etc. I'd be up. I went to that health food store too yesterday, cause I didn't want to wait in line at a grocery store.

more like female ejaculation

David Carr tweets:
Will be watching with interest as Twitterdome morphs from wisecracks about #Sandy to franticness and fear.

Will be watching with non-interest as David Carr's twitter morphs from wisecracks about Twitterdome to franticness and fear.

Why the fuck would people be posting fearful twitter updates? They should be running/canoeing.

tbf, Carr did live in Houston for quite a few years and has hurricane experience.

OMG, the hurricane is going to get me! #shouldbedoingsomethingbetterwithmytime

Prolly back then Carr just wanted to make sure he had enough drugs to weather the storm.

Biked to Foodtown, wind was at my back on the way there so no problems. The ride back was interesting. My weight plus 30-lb bike plus 25lbs of groceries and I STILL almost got blown across the street a couple of times.

don't be a dick Josh

it's drizzling outside but the real stuff hasn't really started yet - good thing i got off today!

tbf, Carr did live in Houston for quite a few years and has hurricane experience.

― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Monday, October 29, 2012 2:26 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're confusing the football player with the journalist

fairway in red hook is fucked -- i imagine ikea will be as well

(still hoping thread gets de-railed to female ejaculation tpoic)

it looks like there is going to be widespread damage and even if someone is lucky enough to avoid any serious problems it's nagl to be smug while other people are bunking on cots having abandoned their homes

Couldn't tell from "David Carr tweets:" who we were talking about.

xpost Yeah, I felt bad as soon as I posted. Carr's story is actually pretty inspiring.

mike h don't be gross

That said, I wonder if drug addicts do stockpile when something like this comes up?

there is nothing gross about it

Yeah, my bad.
https://www.twitter.com/carr2n

oh, looks like this is totally gonna miss connecticut?

Miss, or not effect? I could have sworn I heard the reach was something like 150 miles from the eye, which means it doesn't have to hit to hit you.

well yeah it'll still "hit" us, but it's tacked way west since yesterday

Katrina took down a hickory tree with a 5' diameter in our yard, and it had dropped to below hurricane strength by the time it got here.

George Bush doesn't care about 5' diameter hickory trees.

90 mph, 942 mb...

Boston transit closing at 2pm today.

Lots of NJ flooding pics:

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/sandy-coverage-updates-20121027

I am praying to the universe that our beautiful sidewalks will be spared

MOMI used your article on Psycho in their handout yesterday

The whole thing or an excerpt??

Chemo center closed, waiting for a doctor response via answering service, so I can sit home and finish Team of Rivals by Wednesday I guess.

good luck, east coast <3

I hope Romney did not team up with COBRA to use the weather dominator and screw with our election!

Morbs, how is Team of Rivals? I am torn between it and Wolf Hall for my Hurricane reading.

jeez the Gowanus IS overflowing, run for yr lives

ToR is a solid read, didn't know the details of the prewar Republican/Whig machinations... I wish DKGoodwin went on about "the lovely Kate Chase" less often.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-store-hurricane-sandy-2012-10

*wipes sweat off brow*

Ocean City, MD Pier is gone.

cheers. i'll go with that one, then. xposts

:(

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UH2DpDKSlHw/UI6D-UHJp6I/AAAAAAAAPSs/7jyHzGmmQDo/s1600/156448_488008844566853_1185432556_n.jpg

Blizzard Warning, MD and WV...

Shawn Reynolds@TWC_ShawnTWC Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross rode out Hurr. Andrew & says #Sandy is beyond anything we imagined earlier this week. Wow

UPDATE _ the fake cobwebs on our front porch - GONE

http://instagram.com/p/RXoEkohmER/

atlantic city

#prayforapplebees

yeah just heard about AC on WNYC

...and that's with the storm still 200 miles away...

Morbs, they called it an excerpt but it took up the front and 1/2 of the back page and you were their only expert. Well done!

"Meet me tonite in Atlantic City" - for some undersea ping pong

but damage in advance of landfall doesnt nec mean landfall will be worse

k i should speak only for central CT...looks like the coasts are gonna get slammed

I wish DKGoodwin went on about "the lovely Kate Chase" less often.

haha – she took a long look at the Vidal novel.

Yeah, guys. Despite his henna dye job, Bryan Norcross is a mofo. He saved a few people's lives as Hurricane Andrew was happening (he was the only broadcaster on the air as the storm's fury was howling).

Why would you assume I was kidding about tourists going to see empty parts of NYC??? I think that's an opportunity you're much more likely to remember in 10 years than that time you saw a Broadway show or went to the Empire State Building or whatever.

everyone in the east coast gets blown today!

http://i.imgur.com/85sru.png

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/1min/

that looks like a Bitch of a cloudy swirl

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/hurricane-sandy-tosses-disney-cruise_n_2038771.html

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

everyone in the east coast gets blown today!

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Monday, October 29, 2012 11:32 AM (18 minutes ago)

that's great, but i think you keep forgetting to say "away"

very sad

http://blogs.wsj.com/dispatch/2012/10/29/crew-abandons-famed-tall-ship-off-north-carolina/

i just got bread at the supermarket! lots of ppl walking their doggies while they still can

where do dogs do their yuk in a storm?

is that a George Clinton title?

you'll find out later

http://themovieblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/pointbreak1.jpg

Reeves in da storm - eyen swayzee

where do dogs do their yuk in a storm?

<3

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcnyiq2Vkb1qbb52do1_500.png
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcnx6y9tEC1qz867mo1_500.gif

lol whut

did the mutants get washed up out of the sewars?

i don't know, it's just the latest thing posted on tumblr for #bloomingdale (my neighborhood)

atlantic city living up to its name

neighbors down the street just lost power

Video of the pale horse man:

http://gawker.com/5955762

Follow-up pic:

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/384840_10152205811920066_1659901890_n.jpg

that is one of my favorite photos

*buys NBA league pass before power goes out*

lol! hooray for hurricane horse men!

http://distilleryimage6.instagram.com/9cb0cfb221da11e2968922000a1cbafc_7.jpg

hahaha

Man v's Nature

http://observer.com/2012/10/gowanus-canal-flooding/#slide10

"some day a real rain will wash all eth scum onto the streets"

"So, Death, how many people do you intend to kill this week?"

"the normal amount"

http://gothamist.com/2012/10/29/compare_satellite_images_of_sandy_a.php

http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/7/2012/10/horse1.gif

yay!

Storm TEAM 4 getting bored.

that's america right there

la guardia starting to flood

Little pink horseheads
for you and me

http://i.imgur.com/0IDu1.jpg

haox or real image?

haox

yeah the boat is definitely a 'shop

there's not a person who's really that tall

http://urbanomnibus.net/main/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/newyork-under-water.jpg

that's actually an incredibly terrifying image

I was gonna say

I'm getting wigged by the storm pics and I'm not even on the east coast

move out of NYC how and forever

Got a storm, got a surge,
and it's out of control.
Got an uncontrollable surge
and I'm losing control.

Got an uncontrollable surge
I'm gonna tell you all about it.
Got an uncontrollable surge
I'm gonna scream and shout it.

OFF TOMORROW TOO FUCK YEAH

WIND DAY

Amazing to see cuttyhorse.jpg on the news

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTFkp7HHcvqS-Bk9AFHIsmYksf-AEzGaWD9eCGXxbr2iQE4mwNl

http://i.imgur.com/K015d.jpg

guys

AAAHH NOT AGAIN!!

http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/AFP_Getty-514957613.jpg

cool
story
bro

cool
story
bro.

C
S
B

costobro

you
like,
bro?

clstrybr0

we will beat-obama and sand y

cool storm bro

cool stormy bro will beat-obama and sandy

http://istwitterwrong.tumblr.com/post/34563249044/is-that-really-a-picture-of-hurricane-sandy-descending

Tagged his own place of business.

http://www.deviantart.com/download/332070190/mtg__supreme_verdict_by_samburley-d5hpezy.jpg

“I love the water,” Blis Laurel said this afternoon, standing beside the choppy waters of the East River. A fierce wind was blowing in across the esplanade where the East River Ferry lands—when it hasn’t been docked to wait out a possibly horrendous storm. Ms. Laurel had ventured down from her apartment on Bedford Avenue to read and reflect, to take in the scene and the energy.

“Mother Earth is so powerful,” she continued. “I love to connect with her; I wanted to come down before the storm and feel the energy. And I want come out in the storm, too, and see what that feels like.”

lulz

Mitt to the rescue!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/28/mitt-romney-fema_n_2036198.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

“It’s exciting because two celestial events are happening at once,” Ms. Laurel explained. “It’s a harvest moon and a hurricane, which I hear can mean a big storm surge. I don’t know what that would mean energetically, but I think it’s important to be with our thoughts and be in a place of love and not a place of fear.”

i agree w/what u said laurel even if mookie is loling at u

“It’s a harvest moon and a hurricane
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/2/28/1330434552502/Neil-Young-008.jpg

hi laurel can i have the number of your sister gaia

Ms. Laurel was wearing a white- and rainbow-colored knit cap with white tassels and a green down vest. She had a chain around her neck with a crystal hanging from it. She is from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and thus well accustomed to the ways of a fierce storm. “Andrew was my first, when I was 3,” Ms. Laurel explained.

'i miss Andy sometimes'

“Andrew was my first, when I was 3,” Ms. Laurel explained.

not barack obama?

That is not a flattering Neil pic. Makes me wonder where he keeps his Rancor monster.

Spouse and I have a bet on when we'll lose power. He says within ten minutes (it just started gusting here in DC); I say we'll make it to 3:00 p.m.

Meanwhile, the damn hilton near the data center is already booked. So much for a room with power on the company dime.

makes me wonder if he is the Rancor monster.

Might be on to something there, Alfred.

http://images.hitfix.com/photos/2382497/Neil-Young-and-Crazy-Horse-performing_event_main.jpg

i really hope we don't lose power that would be a huge bummer. much better to wait out the storm w/ the television on

I ran out of onions I need an onion I am going to go outside to find an onion wish me luck

rip dayo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzs_OWgAZi8

It is amazing how many onions I go through in a week. Srsly I average an onion a day, easy. When I find I do not have onion, I panic. Godspeed, dayo, I support your mission!

My respect for Young increased when he took the stage with Axl Rose - now he is a hero again - be it rancor or harvest moon or TRANS

My poor wireless service ate my post, I tried to say that lol I ran out of onions last night and had to venture out for them this morning! Sadly in the meantime I am running out/am out of eggs.

WTF!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A6ZTKUlCYAA7QkU.jpg

Was just posting about that!

CNN is so raedy for somethin gto go down - I bet they blow up a boat and then report on it - they cant control themselves

UPDATE: there are still onions to be purchased in New York City

Haha I have one big onion. I hope it's enough to get me through the day.

I am running out of cigarettes I need more cigarettes I am going to go outside to find more cigarettes wish me luck.

yeah I bought one really big onion! they didn't have the red bags of smaller onions.

I am down to one and a half onions, some shallots, and half a dozen cloves of garlic. I could easily wipe all of that out in a single dish. SHOULD HAVE STOCKED MORE ALLIUMS WHAT WAS I THINKING???

what about a smaller bag of red onions?

no probs for me, I don't cook

Great, so the thread gets de-railed to Onions instead. I guess teh world is mroe ready for onions that feminine victories.

they had small bags of shallots for $5 a pound fuck that

threw out half an onion yesterday cuz i have so many, who's gong to miss it? not me

"they had small bags of shallots for $5 a pound fuck that"

never fuck a shallot

It'll end in tears.

shallots have no Skene's glands I'm afraid to admit

In a measurement of pure kinetic energy, NOAA's hurricane research division on Sunday ranked the surge and wave "destruction potential" for Sandy — just the hurricane, not the hybrid storm it will eventually become — at 5.8 on a 0 to 6 scale. The damage expected from winds will be far less, experts said. Weather Underground meteorologist Jeff Masters says that surge destruction potential number is a record and it's due to the storm's massive size.

"You have a lot of wind acting over a long distance of water for hundreds of miles" and that piles the storm surge up when it finally comes ashore, Masters said. Even though it doesn't pack much power in maximum wind speed, the tremendous size of Sandy — more than 1,000 miles across with tropical storm force winds — adds to the pummelling power when it comes ashore, he said as he added caramelized onions to his burger.

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sounds delicious

shrimp

plate of shrimp

threw out half an onion yesterday cuz i have so many, who's gong to miss it? not me

― ticks up my sleeve (brownie), Monday, October 29, 2012 3:05 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

a man who truly values nothing in life

I bet allot of seafood will be washed ashore and we can eat it with onions and shallots! gather ye crustaceans and mollusks while ye can!

Has the Kraken been released? I bet that would be yummy.

it's getting noisy out there

this crane collapse is crazy

I saw that somebody was playing galaxie 500 on spotify and it is indeed excellent music to be listening to as I gaze outside at this fell storm

Cracklin Kraken chips!

LOL at the NY Daily News:

Terror above Seventh Ave.: Crane collapse in midtown Manhattan as Hurricane Sandy storms into the East Coast

TERROR

Firefighters were enroute and the little traffic near the One57 building was being hurried away by worried police.
No injuries were reported in the collapse, which was reported at 2:30 p.m., city officials said.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/crane-collapse-manhattan-article-1.1194790#ixzz2AiZWcxCJ

TERRIFYING

"the little traffic" makes me think of sewer rats in their cars desperately trying to get upstate.

this car alarm outside just keeps going off again and again

Has Obama called it an act of terror? Or is he WEAK ON CRANES?

surely some sort of cosmic joke xp

haha dan so yale students who are 'trapped in ny' can stay at the yale club, according to email j got

lmao I'll be right there

I bet Bloomberg is regretting banning big freaking sodas now!!

blustery and rainy in Arlington but there's basically no surge potential for the Potomac so if the power stays on everything could be relatively hunky-dory. Sympathies to the variously distressed of the upper mid-atlantic

i guess it's smart to eat frozen food? I'm washing my clothes so late y'all

Scuba gear!
http://images.scribblelive.com/2012/10/29/52ab2609-0816-48dc-a076-2ce4f49a546b_800.jpg

http://goo.gl/maps/mBhdW

come on in emergency martinis will be on your left ... stay safe

lol that it is on Vanderbilt Ave

can't help noticing the loosened limbs on the power lines outside my window and the gale winds and the fire truck blaring by
so i guess this is on or something

Scuba gear pic very close to where I grew up on Long Island. Shit.

These are from the town I grew up in on Fire Island. My friend's dad and sister are out there and refusing to evacuate. Awesome.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c135.0.403.403/p403x403/374083_463072637064179_860426164_n.jpg

good advice: make coffee now while you can.

Good luck Forks

xpost oh gosh good luck to your ppl ENBB

Yeah I might boil a big pot and make one giant thing of strong black tea

head for the hills!

http://instacane.com

a can of spaghetti?

View of crane through telescope

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A6ZcbtDCMAAoLnn.jpg

god dammit car alarms should be illegal

that crane looks weird

if God had wanted us to have cranes he would have invented them

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A6ZZuN6CQAAVxqn.jpg

so no one thought to lower the crane before the hurricane

Hurricrane

Here is another one from Fire Island:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/fireisland.jpg

My friend's dad is an asshole. Nobody should be out there at this point. Nice try being a hero dude.

fuck enbb that suuuucks

@NYscanner for more details as they come in

Woo 50-yr-old gas oven and stove will still be working at the end of the earth and most of humanity. Coffee any time.

update: starting to get p windy in n vermont, still partially sunny tho

plz secure yr delicious maple syrup supplies thx

I always keep a jar of instant coffee (even though it's gross) for these type of emergencies. I don't know if I could survive without coffee.

so no one thought to lower the crane before the hurricane

Cranes take quite a while to put up and take down.

god dammit car alarms should be illegal
― iatee, Monday, October 29, 2012

Woo 50-yr-old gas oven and stove will still be working at the end of the earth and most of humanity. Coffee any time.

Make sure you grind a bunch of beans in advance, though, unless you've got a hand grinder

Even if you have an electric starter you can still turn on the gas and light the stove with a lighter, right? This is my first nu-kitchen so I'm really not sure.

u still in Jersey City, forks? and if so, how close to the Hudson River?!?

Get some c4, clear the sidewalk below. Seems pretty simple to me.

I am writing a theme for tis hurricane as we speak

is this supposed to hit Maine, hanle y?!?

I think we are only getting the fingers of it

plz secure yr delicious maple syrup supplies thx

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, October 29, 2012 3:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/why-does-canada-have-a-strategic-maple-syrup-reserve/261869/

don't fall on top of carnegie hall, crane

Fresh-baked snickerdoodles coming out of oven fyi.

q: how do you get to carnegie hall?
a: fall on top of it you are a crane haha!

update: starting to get p windy in n vermont, still partially sunny tho

― lag∞n, Monday, October 29, 2012 3:52 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was up your way a couple weekends ago! truly god's country

I ground all my coffee beans on Sat, it's about 3 days' worth so that okay.

god is a terrible driver

lia got super psyched about snickerdoodles. we're glued to the tv right now... you should come up whenever you want to obsess over this with us!

i was up your way a couple weekends ago! truly god's country

― call all destroyer, Monday, October 29, 2012 4:04 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

indeed where did u go

i have many friends in white river junction (lol comics) and damn that shit is gorgeous

That's where I grew up. Pretty, but it gets old.

ur from wrj dawg

Rad! Let me get the last batch out of the oven and I will.

I'm from Lebanon.

Until I was 7 I lived in Corinth, VT. Upper Valley kid all the way.

ah so, i lived near st j for a while when i was a kid, and then later as an adult... and now once again

the whole house is shaking

montpelier, stowe, waterbury, greensboro w/beer nerd friends

nice

im supposed to fly out of boston on wednesday and i sure hope this whole shit doesnt fuck it up

xxp- i made the waterbury/greensboro run this past weekend - stoked to be hunkered down with a whole grip of heady topper

One of my best friends growing up has roots in Danville. Was in St. J all the time with him, and playing hoops, etc. Lovely little town, but that museum creeped me out every time I went there on field trips.

My parents were staying in Southern VT for a short time this summer - West Dover. The damage done by Irene last year was really obvious. I hope that this isn't just devastating for them again.

yeah up where i am irene wasnt really a deal but all along the ny border it fucked shit up

the museum and the athenaeum are both p creepy xp

Montreal update: So the wind knocked my recycling bin, sign of impeding doom. I have to clean the whole thing now.

Better check all the bins of Canada while yoru at it'

You had a chance to make a perfectly good Boards of Canada joke and you blew it.

xxp- i made the waterbury/greensboro run this past weekend - stoked to be hunkered down with a whole grip of heady topper

― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, October 29, 2012 4:19 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude we had to go store to store hunting for it--hope it was easier for you!

we used to vacation in west glover and barton when i was growing up. it was beautiful up there!

the coffee thing didn't occur to me. i'll grind some beans in a little bit and use the filter cup of my electric coffee maker to survive

Well before the worst ravages of Hurricane Sandy were expected to descend on the New Jersey coastline, Atlantic City was already in big trouble.

By high tide around 8 a.m. on Monday, officials said 70 to 80 percent of the city was underwater. Water as much as eight feet deep coursed through many streets, leaving them impassable. Heavy rains and sustained winds of more than 40 miles an hour battered the city.

All arteries leading into Atlantic City were closed, and officials speculated that they might remain so for days. No one could enter Atlantic City. Casinos were shut down.

“The city is under siege,” said Thomas Foley, the chief of emergency services. “Sandy is pretty furious at Atlantic City. She must have lost a bet or something. As we say in our slogan, ‘Do A.C.’ She’s doing A.C., all right.”

we used to vacation in west glover and barton when i was growing up. it was beautiful up there!

― spicy bacon, bitch! (Eisbaer), Monday, October 29, 2012 4:32 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lake willoughby is so dope

"You had a chance to make a perfectly good Boards of Canada joke and you blew it."

:(

I was actually thinking of a certain candian who had her bin filled up with foreign recycling by an asshoel; recently but saw no real connection

it is! so is lake crystal and lake memphremagog.

my parent's cabin was on Lake Parker in West Glover.

Since this became the Vermont vacation thread, I will add that sail boating on Lake Champlain is one of the great feelings one can experience in a life.

It's a great place to chill, definitely.

i aspire to ice skate across lake champlain

Oh that New Jersey spirit:

“The city is under siege,” said Thomas Foley, the chief of emergency services. “Sandy is pretty furious at Atlantic City. She must have lost a bet or something. As we say in our slogan, ‘Do A.C.’ She’s doing A.C., all right.”

I love how the Guardian have a front page live blog for this, there obsession with live blogs knows no end.

Grease refs are pretty common at this point, but I like here how the progression from nice Sandy to rough and tumble Sandy is tracked:

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/55994_4433968521018_2111294313_o.jpg

thread derail attempts " F. E. - onions, vermont"

Nuclear Regulatory Commission watches reactors in Sandy's path

I've ice skated on Lake Champlain but never across it. That'd be cool.

Weather Channel streaming live on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWeatherChannel?feature=inp-lt-san

yeah its a thing people do apparently, go all the way to ny xp

of course ive ice skated like once since i was 12

I am seriously thinking of going to Manhattan tomorrow morning for a photo project.

Lights flickering in my apartment, and yet I took the elevator to the basement laundry. #titaniumballs

I wish I could see an "ice hurricane" as a disembodied spirirt/robot

I want to go outside and take photos too but I left my waterproof jacket somewhere I don't know

You don't need a jacket. Just grab your horse head and some underwear and go.

That horseman is a hero - I hope he knows it.

I was actually thinking of a certain candian who had her bin filled up with foreign recycling by an asshoel; recently but saw no real connection

Canadian reCycling Conspiracies vol 1

"Authorities warned that New York City and Long Island could get the worst of the storm surge: an 11-foot (3-meter) onslaught of seawater that could swamp lower Manhattan, flood the subways and damage the underground network of electrical and communications lines that are vital to the nation’s financial capital.

“Fucking leave immediately. Conditions are deteriorating very rapidly, and the window for you getting out safely is closing,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told those in low-lying areas."

lurking thread for excitement because I actually had to go to work in this cold-ass, mildly rainy weather

this jetski guy kicks ass
http://i49.tinypic.com/fk1ekh.jpg