sandy aftermath pics
 

http://www.foxnews.com/weather/slide...ending#slide=1


no telling what the total $ amount will be on this storm. one picture alone has several cars piled up in a flooded area. going to be high. hopefully no more added to the death toll.

Brutal..not finished yet...amazing pics..yes, hope no more deaths..
Watched ABC hour long news at 6.30 and CBS from 10-11 last nite and in between the weather channel, haven't watched them in years...on location reporters were in distress...and Stewart had a re-run due to storm and watched a few minutes of Letterman and was just him and his goofy band leader and no audience...

i have to admit, probably my biggest pet peeve is when stations such as the weather channel send reporters to stand out in the storms to do reports.

what the hell purpose does that serve? you're telling people it's a serious storm, seek shelter...and then you send a crew in harms way. that makes no sense at all to me. do we really need to see someone in rain gear getting soaked and blown around to know 'hey, it's a hurricane'?

Revealed today that New Jersey is devastated, both on shore and inland, Chris Christie on Fox this am obviously severely worried, caring about his state and people. Fire burned 80 flooded homes. Manhattan flooded. 38 dead.

Heavy heart for all involved :(

Amazing you people are taking Fox at their word?

:zz: About what? Christie was on Fox this am, highly praising President Obama and the federal response.

The Faux And Fools Idiot asked if Romney was going to do disaster photo-op in New Jersey. Christie said to the Faux Idiot:

When asked if Romney will come to NJ do the disaster photo-op tour, Christie said of Romney:

Video here:

http://youtu.be/Uu2SJbmhu2I

i give him kudos..he told the public that obama did a good job.on this front..but he stands by his support for romney..further keeping it real.

Powerful Article ... non-political

Watching New York City drown



In 2005, Aaron Naparstek, a writer with the New York Press, published a remarkably prescient piece about the vulnerability of New York City to hurricanes, the flooding that would result along the hundreds of miles of shoreline in the five boroughs—with the water filling the sea-level interior flatlands and washing over the reclaimed swamps of Brooklyn—and the ill-prepared psychology of “a complacent coastal city” where the ocean is not thought of as a threat. Naparstek observed that in fact New York “is behind only Miami and New Orleans on the list of U.S. cities most likely to suffer a major hurricane disaster.” He cited meteorologists and disaster planners with the city’s Office of Emergency of Management who were in consensus “that the metropolitan region is due for a big one. Overdue, in fact.” Mike Lee, then Director of Watch Command at the OEM, told Naparstek that the worst-case hurricane scenario for New York City—in which 30 feet or more of storm surge sweeps over the city in a category 3 storm event—“gives emergency managers serious gastrointestinal distress.” Nicholas Coch, a professor of coastal geology at Queens College, said “The New York City area is the worst possible place for a hurricane to make a landfall.”

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/30/watc...rk_city_drown/

what a crazy storm. I never really would imagine seeing pictures like I have of the places I spent my childhood. My brother was in hoboken, four feet of water surrounding his apartment (he's fine).

Kudos to the President, Governer Christie, and the mayor of NY, for a job well done so far.

Side note..When was the last time the stock market closed for two consecutive days....1884...wow...

Just spoke with a good friend of mine that still lives "at the shore" (we never used that terminology growing up) and he said that Bay Head and Mantoloking, two very nice old beach towns are still completely under water and what isnt under water is on fire due to a gas leak that they cannot shut down because the valves are under sand or water. I built about 15 homes on those beaches before I moved, they are all destroyed or washed away completely. Very sad.

Sorry to hear that. That must hurt.

I understand the waters are horribly contaminated with gasoline, diesel, etc. and people who stayed back are still being asked to evacuate due to risk of fire.

Breezy Point, Queens photo from the air.

http://www.businessinsider.com/breez...-photo-2012-10

:eek: :( :{>:

I think it very much premature to give kudos to anyone yet.

:zz: The federal and state responses from the 10 governors so far have been without complaint. What is yours?

Just keep believing that Obama, Christie and Bloomberg are doing a fantastic job because they are telling you that they are.

whatever

so far they've been doing everything they can. Unless Christie bends over and starts chugging water.

The responses have been good.