The Great Storm of 2012 Is Coming - Hurricane Sandy

My niece who lives in New Jersey made a Facebook post about this storm. It's being called a "terrifying monster storm" there. Sounds pretty descriptive to me.
 
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Something to remember when you start seeing all the political spin on the storm.

Obama June 3, 2008 - "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal".
 
Cruella said:
Something to remember when you start seeing all the political spin on the storm.

Obama June 3, 2008 - "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal".
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Sounds like Fredric March as Matthew Harrison Brady in the movie "Inherit The Wind"

The man is demented.
 
thats what the WH and FEMA are telling people. seriously...

no power, no cell service. braindead...

this is what we learned from Katrina ?


When President Barack Obama urged Americans under siege from Hurricane Sandy to stay inside and keep watch on ready.gov for the latest, he left out something pretty important — where to turn if the electricity goes out.

Despite the heightened expectation of widespread power and cable television failures, everyone from the president to local newscasters seem to expect the public to rely entirely on the Internet and their TVs for vital news and instructions.

None of the major cable or local news channels put emergency phone numbers or key radio station frequencies on their screens. The only phone-related instructions on the homepage of ready.gov is how to get monthly disaster-prep text messages. The Federal Emergency Management Agency told the public via Twitter to use texts and social media outlets to stay informed.

TV and radio are still the primary methods of getting information about Hurricane Sandy to the public, but social media are increasingly important to those efforts, FEMA chief Craig Fugate said Monday.

A call to FEMA’s news desk, however, found even they didn’t have any non-Internet information readily available beyond suggestions that people call 911 in an emergency. When asked where folks should turn for information if they have no power, a FEMA worker said, “Well, those people who have a laptop with a little battery life on it can try that way. Otherwise, you’re right.”

Such blind spots are perilous to the public, experts say. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell did reference during a news conference Monday two useful phone numbers — 211 for guidance on emergency shelter locations and 511 for traffic information — and D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray told News Channel 8 that people should call 311 in storm-related emergencies.
But that’s about it for public information of this type.​
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How are you going to call 911 without electricity? Most landline phones today don't work without it and you can't charge a dead cellphone without it.

How many people even have a battery operated radio?
 
PLC1 said:
A Facebook friend from New York says the power is back on today. Now, they're bracing for a Nor Easter.
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Winter is coming. I think those people are going to have to relocate until spring.
 
People are complaining of human waste in the stairwells of the public housing apt. buildings.
Amazing how a hurricane can shit in the hallways. o_O
 
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They're getting a nor'easter today. I heard there were more evacuations.
 

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