NOAA to East: Beware of coming 'Frankenstorm

[Caliga]

Yeah, what were they thinking, that they could sneak up the coast in front of it/before it made landfall ?

They were probably trying to sail far out to sea to make an end run around it.  Sometimes it's safer for a boat like that to actually be at sea during a storm than tied to a dock someplace where it's likely to be thrown onto the shore and smashed to bits.

[alfred russel]

Yeah, what were they thinking, that they could sneak up the coast in front of it/before it made landfall ?

Sometimes larger ships will put out to sea because being in port is a good way to end up damaged and sunk. Although I wouldn't want to play chicken with a hurricane in a tall ship.

I think I toured that ship as a kid.

[Caliga]

My dad (who is in Philly) is telling me that Long Beach Island--where I spent my summers as a kid--has been totally breached in at least four places.

Also, the AC boardwalk has apparently been smashed to pieces.

[Caliga]

My uncle is off the island and supervising a storm shelter at his high school (he's the superintendent of his regional school district).  My guess is that his houses on the island may be toast, including the house on the lot that used to belong to my grandparents.

[mongers]

My uncle is off the island and supervising a storm shelter at his high school (he's the superintendent of his regional school district).  My guess is that his houses on the island may be toast, including the house on the lot that used to belong to my grandparents.

But good that he's doing the important job of protecting life; everything else can be rebuilt with insurance/federal aid,assuming the storm doesn't materially affect the make-up of the island.

[Caliga]

His new house on that lot is awesome and I'll feel bad for him if it gets smooshed, but honestly I'd feel a lot worse if my grandparents' house was still standing on the lot and was the one to get smooshed.

[Syt]

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/instasnopes-sorting-the-real-sandy-photos-from-the-fakes/264243/

[garbon]

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/instasnopes-sorting-the-real-sandy-photos-from-the-fakes/264243/

Well those were pretty obvious.

[Caliga]

Do you think this one is real.  That looks like Virginia Beach to me:

[Razgovory]

Well, Tim it looks like now is the time to post a whole bunch of news articles.  CdM will be out of commission for a while.

[DGuller]

Well, I'm in Brooklyn with my dad now, and will likely be stuck for a couple of days.  My dad didn't have anything to eat in the house, and surprisingly, enough stores were open and stocked with what we needed.  Eventually we had to cut our shopping short, because it started blowing hard enough that I was afraid of flying debri.  At least we're not in the flood zone.

[Tamas]

I am sorry to read all that Cal.

Stay safe DGuller!

Best of luck to those affected!

[Caliga]

I'll be mildly sad if the Atlantic City boardwark gets totally annihilated, but I'll be REALLY sad if White House Subs a few streets landward gets destroyed.  BEST.  HOAGIES.  EVER. 

[Ed Anger]

We had a couple idiots in the office here complaining about *our* weather.  OMG WE MAY GET A TRACE OF WET SNOW TONIGHT

Hey, I'm mildly annoyed. And the wind gusts might just fuck up DP&L. Since they'll send all their crews eastwards and leave us with shit.

[Caliga]

Yeah, the Ohio Valley region doesn't do a very good job of dealing with windstorms.  TRUST ME ON THIS ONE.