Hurricane Sandy

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29 Oct 2012, 6:59 pm

I live in New York, the storm right now is freaking me out! Seriously, my house lost power twice so far and my family keeps on hearing transformers exploding in the distant. I'm really scared right now

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29 Oct 2012, 8:14 pm

I've been watching on the news and it looks bad. Just stay safe, it should pass in a day or so.

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29 Oct 2012, 9:01 pm

Wow, Sandy. Let's see...

Can anybody here say "hype"?

This storm was completely underwhelming. Power outages and, if you live within like 5 miles of the ocean, flooding.

Yeeeeah...I'm not gonna say this was any worse than your average thunderstorm. Except maybe for the flooding, which affected the minority of people who were hit by this storm.

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29 Oct 2012, 10:03 pm

I managed to avoid it on the east coast. Wow.

Even if it is a little hyped, this is still the Northeast. They're not used to having weather like that...

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29 Oct 2012, 10:24 pm

Magdalena wrote:

My very elderly grandfather lives right smack in the middle of where this hurricane is hitting. And if anything bad happens to him, I'll never forgive you for this comment.

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30 Oct 2012, 12:52 am

Magdalena wrote:

Already a million plus without power.
Hardly an average thunderstorm.

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30 Oct 2012, 2:31 am

Magdalena wrote:

....Says the person who probably lives on the west coast.

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30 Oct 2012, 3:13 am

Magdalena wrote:

It wasn't underwhelming well at least to me. I live in NYC area and many people were given mandatory evacuation orders and had to go to the shelter.
Thousands of flights got cancelled, bridges and tunnels closed, airport runways are flooded and public transportation systems are submerged in water. NYS and its neighboring states declared state of emergency.

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30 Oct 2012, 5:57 pm

Is this "the Year Without a Halloween"?

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30 Oct 2012, 7:03 pm

I didn't lose power, which was good! The high winds got scary though.

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30 Oct 2012, 7:18 pm

Nova Scotia is getting hit with this storm too.

While not as serious as New York (or New Jersey for that matter), it's still a tad worrisome.

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30 Oct 2012, 8:20 pm

Same things happen when we get typhoons over here. Stay safe and don't go out. Put on headphones and do something you like. A few years 681 people died in one single storm, on this tiny island...so really, don't mess with storms. :wink:

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30 Oct 2012, 8:44 pm

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Stay safe and hope it turns out ok for you and your family.

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30 Oct 2012, 11:13 pm

The Hurricane is big news over here in Australia.
I hope all our American friends on the forum are safe best wishes to all of you.

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31 Oct 2012, 5:45 pm

I hope you stayed safe, fellow Aspies along the Eastern seaboard.

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01 Nov 2012, 12:02 am

naturalplastic wrote:

Magdalena wrote:

Already a million plus without power.
Hardly an average thunderstorm.

You mean in an area populated by over 22 million people, 6.2 million lost power as of Halloween morning? Hmm, still not very overwhelming. Thunderstorms often cause outages for almost 100% of the population in the areas that they affect. ~20% isn't all that massive, New York City or not.

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