Hurricane Sandy - "Perfect Storm"

[Miss Caphat]

I actually live in Essex County!!!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Ever thought about why they call the region New England?

I know that, but Billericay? I suppose all those years ago it wasn't as much a shithole as it is now.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I actually live in Essex County!!!

Has that only just occurred to you? I did mention Billericay's in Essex earlier

You ESSEX GIRL

 

[Miss Caphat]

Has that only just occurred to you? I did mention Billericay's in Essex earlier

You ESSEX GIRL

It did just occur to me.
well, I guess I'd better start acting the part. What does it involve?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It did just occur to me.
well, I guess I'd better start acting the part. What does it involve?

Here you go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_girl

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Fantastic pictures from NY Times building updating every minute

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/nyt-webcam.html?smid=tw-share

 

[Miss Caphat]

Fantastic pictures from NY Times building updating every minute

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/nyt-webcam.html?smid=tw-share

cool. looks pretty calm though.

ooh, ooh, look at mine again Minnie http://www.northshorepavilion.com/surfcam/index.html

sea's looking much wilder now!

 

[Miss Caphat]

wind's howling and whistling now

this is distracting me from my homework

 

[Frankie Jack]

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/statueofliberty/?cam=liberty_hd

 

[elbows]

Apparently the important aspect of the story is whether mayor Bloomberg got a boner during a press conference:

http://gawker.com/5955625/did-bloomberg-have-a-boner-at-his-hurricane-sandy-press-conference

 

[peterkro]

Don't know how useful this is but sounds suitably dramatic:
http://new.livestream.com/breakinglivenowdirect/sandycam

 

[Reno]

I'm supposed to go to NYC on Wednesday, meeting a friend there from San Francisco who was going to go Tuesday. His flight is definitely cancelled and it sucks, because I hadn't been planing to go there by myself and having to pay for the hotel by myself would be a lot more expensive than I had been planning.

There goes my big holiday for the year.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Beautiful

 

[Barking_Mad]

One interesting thing to note is that although the winds are not going to be exceptionally strong in terms of pure hurricane measurements, the direction of it means that it's blowing in the opposite direction into which trees are used to, making them more prone to fall over.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Getting stronger.....

Eric Holthaus ‏@WSJweather

NHC update at 5am: "#Sandy strengthens", sustained winds now 85mph, pressure down to 946mb. One of most intense hurricans ever in this area.

 

[Barking_Mad]

...

Hurricane Central ‏@twc_hurricane
Recon has found a very small area of surface winds as high as 91 mph, so the official 85 mph may even be conservative. #Sandy

 

[Barking_Mad]

Getting stronger.....

I tweeted Eric Holthaus and asked how much strengthening could come as a result of passing over gulf strem, he replied that another 10mph on top of the 85mph currently recorded could be possible.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Is this pic real?

http://instagram.com/p/RW474pOfoM/

 

[lizzieloo]

Is this pic real?

http://instagram.com/p/RW474pOfoM/

It's an old picture.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

cool. looks pretty calm though.

ooh, ooh, look at mine again Minnie http://www.northshorepavilion.com/surfcam/index.html

sea's looking much wilder now!

Unable to connect. Maybe it's got wet

 

[DotCommunist]

I actually live in Essex County!!!

will Northampton be OK

 

[boohoo]

Good thing my sister in law had her c-section last week. My brother and family live in NY.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

cool. looks pretty calm though.

Calm before the storm

Not much seems to have changed

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/nyt-webcam.html?smid=tw-share

 

[Barking_Mad]

 

[Barking_Mad]

Hatteras Island, yesterday!

 

[twistedAM]

Not been really paying attention tot eh news this past few days but this New York thing is all over the place.
Tucked in somewhere in the reports is that 45 have already died in the Caribbean.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

wind's howling and whistling now

this is distracting me from my homework

I hope its only a distraction from homework and not a major disaster.

(I also wonder about JC2. I heard there was an earthquake off the west coast of Canada Sunday.)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Looks a lot windier than in Times Square

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/

 

[weepiper]

the Times Square and Brooklyn Bridge webcams are both down for me. Wonder if this is just because of heavy traffic from people trying to see what's going on, or if it's weather-related

 

[weepiper]

ooh no they're back again. The Brooklyn one is a lot more indicative of the weather than the Times Square one

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/brooklynbridge/