NOAA to East: Beware of coming 'Frankenstorm

[Ed Anger]

[jimmy olsen]

By the way, why will a full moon make the tides worse? A full moon isn't closer to earth, or bigger. The only thing happening is more light falls on it and reflects to Earth.

[Strix]

Shit just got serious here.  The Internet went out for a couple of minutes, both by cable and by 4G.  My sister reported the same thing.  Thankfully it's better now.

Four million Facebookers cried out in anguish....

[garbon]

That was 10am. I posted as a link.

[garbon]

By the way, why will a full moon make the tides worse? A full moon isn't closer to earth, or bigger. The only thing happening is more light falls on it and reflects to Earth.

Use wikipedia.

[Ed Anger]

 

That is the problem with my limited computer access. All the good stuff gets posted already.

[The Larch]

A buddy of mine is in NY right now, barricaded somewhere in Harlem. He says that back at home it'd be just a regular storm, nothing to write home about. 

[Ed Anger]

A buddy of mine is in NY right now, barricaded somewhere in Harlem. He says that back at home it'd be just a regular storm, nothing to write home about. 

He is a filthy liar.

[jimmy olsen]

By the way, why will a full moon make the tides worse? A full moon isn't closer to earth, or bigger. The only thing happening is more light falls on it and reflects to Earth.

Use wikipedia.

I already looked at a Moon phase diagram and figured it out.

[jimmy olsen]

1.5 million without power

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/29/us/tropical-weather-sandy/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[CountDeMoney]

If I lose power, I'll jump onto the iHipster and let you know.

I can see the top of the substation that feeds my development from my deck off in the distance, and luckily all the cabling in the area is underground, so it's going to take a major FUBAR to lose my juice.
Then again, I lost power for over 4 days during Isabel in 2003, so who the fuck knows.

Being on the third floor on the top of a hill, man, my walls are creaking like Ed's leg and Darth Wagtaros' back first thing in the morning.

[Ed Anger]

I assume GangstaKitty is annoyed.

[Tonitrus]

Still going strong here.

[CountDeMoney]

I assume GangstaKitty is annoyed.

She's annoyed I haven't fed her for the evening.

[CountDeMoney]

Still going strong here.

You should be OK, since you're in base housing;  there's 4 substations redundantly feeding that fucker, 3 owned by NSA and 1 owned by the US Army.  It would really take something to fuck up 4 subs, you should be OK through the whole thing.