Hurricane Sandy

Justthefacts · 10-30-2012, 07:51 PM

Not to sound morbid, but has anyone died? I hope not

**Janszoon** · 10-30-2012, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Slow Groove

Not to sound morbid, but has anyone died? I hope not

According to CNN at least 33 people have died.

Engine · 10-30-2012, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Engine, I don't understand that picture.
Are they saying the storm is as big as Europe, or that if it was over here Paris would be history? I don't think we've been affected --- few high winds, nothing special, and we often get the "tail end" of hurricanes and such, so I'm a little mystified. Have I missed the point totally?

Like Janszoon said, it's just showing the size of the storm relative to the size of Europe. That's the actual size of the storm superimposed on a map - to scale. Supposing the eye of the storm happened to occur where the picture shows, you would probably be having high winds, heavy rain, power loss and trees falling, and maybe flooding there in Dublin.
I just thought it was interesting. Western Europe is such a tiny place, and this storm is so large.

Engine · 10-30-2012, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

According to CNN at least 33 people have died.

And on top of that, about 80 homes in Queens have been lost to floods and/or fires. Some houses were torn from their foundations.
Lots of survivors are now homeless. And this is just in the US. Many more dead in the Caribbean.

PoorOldPo · 10-30-2012, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Engine

Like Janszoon said, it's just showing the size of the storm relative to the size of Europe. That's the actual size of the storm superimposed on a map - to scale. Supposing the eye of the storm happened to occur where the picture shows, you would probably be having high winds, heavy rain, power loss and trees falling, and maybe flooding there in Dublin.
I just thought it was interesting. Western Europe is such a tiny place, and this storm is so large.

Oh...

Justthefacts · 10-30-2012, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

According to CNN at least 33 people have died.

Man, that's awful. I really was not expecting this storm to be so chaotic.

Freebase Dali · 10-30-2012, 10:44 PM

I can sympathize, as a Louisiana born & raised guy.
But had New York been equipped with Pirogues...

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 10-30-2012, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

Some places are not as affected as other places, at least in Canada. Out west in BC, they're on a fault line so they're more likely to get earth quakes. Much of Ontario and the Prairies in the midwest get tornadoes but the impact of tornadoes is not as widespread, and the Atlantic provinces on the coast get hurricanes and the remnants of hurricanes that travel up the coast. There's also a risk of ice storms and severe snow storms and blizzards in the more northern parts. As far as I know, there are no active volcanoes in Canada.

In Wellington we have a huge earthquakes risk, obviously Christchurch now too (which was unknown before that there were fault lines), Dunedin and Invercargill has blizzard and flood risk and Auckland/Rotarua has active Volcanoes. So it's pretty normal I think.

**Exo** · 10-31-2012, 04:17 PM

Holy ****ing ****.

I'm alive

We just got power back which is really lucky considering NYC is going to be without power for another week. Towns around me either have power or don't. Our shores are gone. There are trees down everywhere around me. My house and family are all safe but we have cleaning up to do. I'll be posting a lot of my own pictures soon once I get enough. I get the opportunity to go out and work in the next few days. It's a ****ing madhouse here. You should see the gas station lines. It's incredible. People are waiting hours for a tank of gas at the few stations that have power.

Incredible. I'll keep everyone posted. I hope everybody else on the board that is in NJ is okay.

This is all just around my area of town. I'll have more when I go out to work.

**Frownland** · 10-31-2012, 04:23 PM

Glad to see you're alright Exo.

10-31-2012, 04:17 PM	#49 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	Holy **ing . I'm alive We just got power back which is really lucky considering NYC is going to be without power for another week. Towns around me either have power or don't. Our shores are gone. There are trees down everywhere around me. My house and family are all safe but we have cleaning up to do. I'll be posting a lot of my own pictures soon once I get enough. I get the opportunity to go out and work in the next few days. It's a ing madhouse here. You should see the gas station lines. It's incredible. People are waiting hours for a tank of gas at the few stations that have power. Incredible. I'll keep everyone posted. I hope everybody else on the board that is in NJ is okay. This is all just around my area of town. I'll have more when I go out to work. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE** Last edited by Exo; 10-31-2012 at 04:28 PM.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Glad to see you're alright Exo. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	I can sympathize, as a Louisiana born & raised guy. But had New York been equipped with Pirogues...