Poll about Hurricane Sandy

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What do you think about the exceptionality, or lack thereof, of Hurricane Sandy?

I think sometime around... say, 2023 we'll get a storm that makes Sandy look like a pipsqueak.

Why do WE have to be hit with this freak storm? Is the Earth angry at us? What did we ever do to deserve it? SEND IT OUT TO SEA WHERE IT BELONGS!

Ooo ... I'm scared!


Not.

i think it may be a bunch of hype, it didn't officially land yet in NJ, but we will have to wait for 5 or 6 pm to find out how much terror this frankenstorm is about to unleash on the east coast, if you ask me, i call it "stormzilla" i have not watched anything else accept for the weather channel, the alerts and severe weather threats alerts sound/look like something out of a natural disaster movie (such as "the perfect storm" and "day after tomorrow")

this morning i was watching the Doppler radar map with my dad (who had to go to work at 2 am this AM because of this thing!) I jokingly asked " OK, when will the UFO's start to show up and kill us all?" he then looked at me as if it was not all that funny, and said "its not a joke Jess, I know your talking about the movies but, not a good idea to joke about this at this time, they said this is the "storm of the century" worse then all the other storms you have been here through, this one we may even lose the house"

Fnord: love the cartoon graphic of the old people watching the newscast.


-Jess

From the AP feed:

Start with Sandy, an ordinary late summer hurricane from the tropics, moving north up the East Coast. Bring in a high pressure ridge of air centered around Greenland that blocks the hurricane's normal out-to-sea path and steers it west toward land.

Add a wintry cold front moving in from the west that helps pull Sandy inland and mix in a blast of Arctic air from the north for one big collision. Add a full moon and its usual effect, driving high tides. Factor in immense waves commonly thrashed up by a huge hurricane plus massive gale-force winds.

Do all that and you get a stitched-together weather monster expected to unleash its power over 800 miles, with predictions in some areas of 12 inches of rain, 2 feet of snow and sustained 40- to 50 mph winds.


ruveyn

And you know what's funny? (Or maybe not so funny). If Frankenstorm appeared in Japan, there would be no looting of any kind. You can anticipate stores being burglarized, hospitals being raided and abandoned homes being broken into all over the place.

Not sure how much damage it will cause really due to the fact I'm not sure whether or not states like Florida have more stringent building codes than states like Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, etc.

the FDR in new york is totaly under water and there was a shark swimming on a suburban street in new jersey

I say it's a buncha hype. I realize that the storm is real and it WILL harm people, but where I am, there's a little rain and wind, and people are freaking the f**k out. I find the whole thing quite calming and interesting, almost beautiful. No matter what we learn to make as humans, we will never be able to match mother nature in sheer power and beauty. I just wanna stand out in the rain and enjoy it... Meditate in it. The only problem with that is it's friggin' cold. Why couldn't we have gotten this storm back in summer when it was like 100 degrees out?

Oh! Vermont!

There have always been sharks swimming on suburban streets in New Jersey.

As someone from New Orleans, Prepare, no power or water, food, and emergency workers do not get their feet wet.

After the storm passes you will be ringed by National Guard on land, Coast Guard on the water, with machine guns, letting no one in or out for a week.

Then you will be occupied by FBI, DEA, FEMA, Corp of Engineers, till the evidence is removed and the records sealed for fifty years by a Federal Judge.

Anti Terror Squads with fixed bayonets will set up road blocks, drag whole families out of cars, face down on the ground, with a gun pointed at their heads.

If someone gives you a bottle of water, demand a bill of sale, for if you cannot prove ownership, you can be jailed or shot for looting. Government agents dressed as National Guard entrap people this way.

Banks can foreclose in a year, Insurance Companies are supposed to pay within a year, but could be fined $10 if they take two.

The Red Cross is mostly Scientology, looking to prey on the weak.

Men with automatic weapons will herd people onto busses, and dump them thousands of miles away. You cannot take your pets. You cannot get out of line and go get your worldly goods, Clothes on your back, then Kansas, or in this case, Detroit.

Almost a third of New Orleans never came back, as they lost everything, and had nightmares.

Get cash in small bills, bottled water, a backpack. Dress for extended outdoor stays, boots, raincoat, hat. ATMs and gas pumps go down with the power.

The Media will have nothing good to say about you, the government help failed because you are ungrateful troublemaking looters. Religious Leaders will say it is because you are sinners, and Baal knows about it.

But overall enjoy it, it is a once in a lifetime event, because doing it twice will kill you.

After the storm passes, and things quite down, well, the death rate in New Orleans was 700% of the national over the next three years. That stress stuff catches up, stroke, heart attack, and hospitals are full of people who needed a bed.

Take it for what it is, Human Comedy.

Obama knew about this storm for days, and did nothing, if he were a real President, he would have ordered it out to sea.

It was Obama who had Ben Lauden dumped in the ocean, and now the ocean is invading New York!

Too much hype, it is just a Hurricane turned Blizzard, becoming a thousand year flood.

The rest of the country, locked in drought, would welcome any water.

Rude stuckup New Yorkers complaining about anything. Gripe, gripe, gripe.

A million to one they demand another bailout!

We poor and uneducated should bail out our betters. Well, New York is just too good for us, so clean up your own mess. You could have built levees, installed pumps, and moved the whole city to higher ground.

God would not have punished them unless they were guilty of something!

Cash in small bills, a back pack of water, dress like a homeless person.