wiskey
Albatross Admirer
are people venturing out then? I dunno how strong the winds are now or whether its all about the flooding risks.
Hurricane Sandy - "Perfect Storm"
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are people venturing out then? I dunno how strong the winds are now or whether its all about the flooding risks.
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
US Coast Guard rescue footage of the survivors of the HMS Bounty shipwreck
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...andy-ship-abandoned-ship-coast-guard/1665339/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...andy-ship-abandoned-ship-coast-guard/1665339/
grubby local
tapir wanker
24 hour news is choking on its own vomit. BBC quoting random unattributables. Who the fk is 'Silvia from Washington DC', for example? The NYSE is flooded ... no it's not. 'Apparent' footage on youtube. Desperate producers jumping on every twitpic thread asking permission to use. There's no authority, just random splurge.
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wiskey
Albatross Admirer
#FDNY units are on scene at Coney Island Hospital. No confirmed fire or reports of injuries at this time.
— FDNY (@FDNY) October 30, 2012
— FDNY (@FDNY) October 30, 2012
What is the matter with you? I checked where the fire stations were in relation to the hospital, then I checked the roads. I'm listening to Brooklyn fire dispatch and they're not mentioning any fire at Coney Island Hospital.
I did all that cos it freaked me out a bit that a hospital could be on fire with no help.
That photo is from about 15 miles away
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
I watched about 20 seconds of news earlier and heard the BBC person say 'normally the skies above New York are literally exploding with planes' and I turned it off!
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
So sad, and with a Christian name as well, I decided to google her to see if she was related, and came across her facebook page and she is.
Great great great great great granddaughter apparently
Fez909
toilet expert
Venturing out? You should have been here earlier. We had phildwyer claiming it was like a typical Welsh summer's day, and he even stripped in Times Square on webcam for us for proof. Looked drizzly, at the worst. This was at the same time that there were pictures of streets under inches of water being posted.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Yeah, but it wasn't a great strip. We didn't get to see skin
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
So sad, and with a Christian name as well, I decided to google her to see if she was related, and came across her facebook page and she is.
Great great great great great granddaughter apparently
I'm confused, whose great great great great great granddaughter is she?
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
I'm not sure how accurately these occupation figures have been kept up to date but it seems most of the shelters have had a low uptake
http://www.redcross.org/find-help/shelter
http://www.redcross.org/find-help/shelter
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Fletcher Christian's!
Trouble is, now, when there really is a big one no-one is going to listen at all.
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
I just found some amazing footage of the impact in the next town over from me.
Every scene is of a place I know like he back of my hand. The house on stilts, the beach parking lot, the grassy place with the benches where people are getting blown over by the sea spray.
Wow.
Every scene is of a place I know like he back of my hand. The house on stilts, the beach parking lot, the grassy place with the benches where people are getting blown over by the sea spray.
Wow.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
has babylon fallen yet?
dylans
overlord of all acorns
You know what pisses me off about the reporting of this?
60+ people are dead in Haiti and a dozen in Cuba because of this storm. Some 200.000 are homeless in Haiti, 137.000 homes are damaged in Cuba. There is also extensive infrastructure damage in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas yet the disaster in those countries barely get a mention.
60+ people are dead in Haiti and a dozen in Cuba because of this storm. Some 200.000 are homeless in Haiti, 137.000 homes are damaged in Cuba. There is also extensive infrastructure damage in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas yet the disaster in those countries barely get a mention.
Morning All, I just got in after a very interesting night. No rain or wind to speak of, everyone in a party mood. Not many bars open, but the ones that were rocked into the wee hours. And I got a date with a chica caliente for tonight. We'll wave at the webcam together...
He doesn't appear until about 1:15 in, cba to edit it out
Nice one Drew. Not sure how I managed to wave the wrong way...
Cheers. It was a great night as it turned out. Bit pissed now though.
It was going very well, but her friend wasn't having it and pulled her away. You can read it all in the body language.
That's part of the problem. The other part is that the media have a vested interest in exaggerating, especially before the storm. This time they were beyond ridiculous, you'd have thought the bleeding world was ending. There was no need to cancel my flight, let alone delay it for three freaking days.
There's worse places to be stuck mind.
Barely a mention....I heard the mentions but they didn't really register. It's not news when disasters happen in poor countries. All our lives we've seen endless stories of starvation in Africa, poverty in Haiti. News from poor countries is almost always bad so it's not unusual so it's not news. It doesn't get ratings or sell ads. Don't know how to change it.
Kanda
Diving wanker
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