Hurricane Sandy - "Perfect Storm"

[Treacle Toes]

....more female specific baiting/insults?

 

[phildwyer]

....more female specific baiting/insults?

OK, now I've got you.

Where are these "female specific baiting/insults" of which you accuse me?

Where are they? Can you produce them please? Now please?

Or are you, by any chance, a LIAR?

 

[Treacle Toes]

Do you understand what this symbol '?' means?

OK, now I've got you.

Where are these "female specific baiting/insults" of which you accuse me?
Where are they? Can you produce them please? Now please?

Or are you, by any chance, a LIAR?

 

[quimcunx]

Oh alright. Jesus.

Anyway, the bets are flooding in by PM, and I'm responding as quickly as I can. Please be patient. But Quimcunx, I'm afraid I can't possibly countenance your request--it is illegal in the state of New York. And I really don't want to hear about your "toys."

It's a real polygraph, not a toy one, phil.

 

[trashpony]

Oh look. It's another thread all about Phil

 

[treelover]

Any more mention of the homeless in the US?

I've been thinking about peeps that live in subways/tunnels etc.

They don't count, as someone said on the news, 46 million on foodstamps(which some of the republicans want to take away) and barely mentioned in the US Election coverage..

My heartfelt sympathies though to those in the US, Haiti, affected by this disaster...

 

[teuchter]

All you mugs make phildwyer's job too easy. If I was him I'd be disappointed in you.

He's right about quimcunx though. She really is a regenerate and habitual liar.

 

[quimcunx]

I'm no regenerate liar.

I've always been this way.

 

[teuchter]

Actually I meant degenerate.

 

[quimcunx]

Actually I meant degenerate.

I refute any claim that my lying is any worse or more inept than it ever was.

 

[lizzieloo]

I refute any claim that my lying is any worse or more inept than it ever was.

Lies

 

[Yossarian]

There were concerns about the subway system, well founded, concerns about low lying areas of the city, well founded, worries about NJ and other coastal areas, well founded.

Sounds like New Jersey got the worst of it - the coast was battered and there's been flooding in areas like Hoboken, where the National Guard has been called in to assist thousands of people trapped in their homes. That's definitely big news in the US - not sure how important a story the storm is in Britain, but it must have been getting a hell of a lot of coverage in Britain for so many people to comment on how much they resent hearing about it.

 

[phildwyer]

All you mugs make phildwyer's job too easy.

Easy you call it? You try it then.

Anyway, I've now walked all over Manhattan. Everything above 30th St is completely normal, except all the bars are heaving in the middle of the day. There's no power below 30th., but about 50% of the businesses are open--either in complete darkness or using generators. The parks are closed, a few tree branches are down. Open air drug dealing appears to have returned to Avenue D, but not sure if that's because the cops are otherwise occupied today. Otherwise, you'd never have known anything untoward had happened.

In a sane world, this would have been worth a couple of columns in the NY Post, and maybe a half-inch in the Guardian. But as this thread has amply proved, we do not live in a sane world.

 

[DotCommunist]

what happened to going to newark

 

[phildwyer]

what happened to going to newark

Got through on the phone instead.

 

[petee]

 

[petee]

you'd never have known anything untoward had happened.

not above 30th street in manhattan, no. except, er, you can't use the subway.
of course, 90% of the people in nassau and suffolk are without power, and 135 are dead (65 in the cariccean, 50 in the states).

ps - get the fuck out of my town.

 

[Citizen66]

It's nice to see a timely return of rutita's favourite animated graphic.

 

[editor]

My friend Jim took some photos around the East Village today:

More here:
http://www.urban75.org/blog/after-the-storm-street-scenes-from-the-east-village-new-york-nyc/

 

[Citizen66]

My mental image of a hurricane is cars ending up in trees, not puddles being created around cars. That's a normal day in Manchester.

 

[Greebo]

ps - get the fuck out of my town.

He would if he could but he can't. BTW since when have you owned the entirety of New York?

 

[lizzieloo]

Sounds like New Jersey got the worst of it - the coast was battered and there's been flooding in areas like Hoboken, where the National Guard has been called in to assist thousands of people trapped in their homes. That's definitely big news in the US - not sure how important a story the storm is in Britain, but it must have been getting a hell of a lot of coverage in Britain for so many people to comment on how much they resent hearing about it.

I don't resent hearing about it, (I don't think anyone else does here either) I'm very interested in weather phenomena. I resent it being described as "Total devastation" as it was repeatedly on Radio 4 the day after.

 

[Greebo]

I don't resent hearing about it, (I don't think anyone else does here either) I'm very interested in weather phenomena. I resent it being described as "Total devastation" as it was repeatedly on Radio 4 the day after.

Quite.

 

[lizzieloo]

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

IT'S JESUS

or a very big pothole

 

[editor]

It's even better with the sound:

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's even better with the sound:

It's not from this storm. It's two years old

Still funny though

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

My friend Jim took some photos around the East Village today:

That building with the stacks looks like a biology lab of some sort. Is that near one of the campuses?

 

[editor]

That building with the stacks looks like a biology lab of some sort. Is that near one of the campuses?

It's the power plant that went bzzzzzt.