Hurricane Sandy

Your presumption would be quite misplaced...◊

edited 29th Oct '12 9:12:08 PM by Komodin

So Day 1 has ended, stay safe fellow East Coast tropers.

Holy shit, I know over there.

edited 29th Oct '12 9:22:58 PM by rmctagg09

@chihuahua: It was in D.C. Ooooh, a few power outages and high winds and rain! SOOOOO HISTORY-MAKING!

Weather.com plays upbeat muzak over impersonal satellite imagery of the storm on its livestream breaks...

edited 29th Oct '12 11:04:27 PM by Zyxzy

I keep reading the title of this thread as Hurricane Slendy.

Weather.com / The Weather Channel plays upbeat muzak over all its "cycle the local weather forcast and maps" breaks. :P

Yeah, but it's really dissonant right now.

Hope everyone in Sandy's path's okay...

So I turned on the news today and it turns out the storm was very bad. Manhattan is flooded by feet of water, the subways are flooded, a power station had exploded, 83 people are dead, and an apartment's front wall completely collapsed.

WTC construction flooding.◊

Hopefully this gives a reason to the people who complain about overreaction to hurricanes. Especially ones that combine with a winter front to form a Nor'Easter - also known as "perfect storms".

edited 30th Oct '12 6:06:39 AM by Completion

I don't complain about it, but it always surprises me how destructive hurricanes are when in Hong Kong it's an extra holiday. Those guys must be doing something right if they can have barely a casualty under such storms.

Hong Kong is prepared for hurricanes and is in a regular area for typhoons. New York is in the north Atlantic and is completely unprepared for a hurricane there.

Also, the United States is regularly hit by hurricanes. You're only hearing about this one because it's destructive. The last hurricane you probably heard about was Irene, which turned out to not be destructive. The last one that did terrible damage like this was Katrina in 2005. You just don't know any better about hurricane preparation in the United States I guess.

edited 30th Oct '12 6:58:23 AM by Completion

US Gulf Coast gets hit very regularly. The city I went to college statistically gets hit (by an eye, that is a direct hit) once every three years. The Gulf Coast has hurricane preparation down. Katrina's death toll was in part because the people were so use to hurricanes that they forgot how dangerous they could be and didn't evacuate when they were supposed to.

Dang, due to Sandy, there was a freaking SHARK swimming in the front yard of someone's house!

@Completion: Don't you mean 33?

Also, everyone's talking about the subways, but does anyone have any idea when the buses will be back?

edited 30th Oct '12 9:12:14 AM by Wheezy

I lost power in my area...

I'm at school, and don't have time to thread binge. All the tropers are okay, right?

I think so, yeah.

Buses are back tomorrow. MTA hopes to have subway tunnels drained by Saturday.

I think Katrina was more what I had in mind when I wrote my post. I'd thought that tropical places would be better prepared for hurricanes. Hong Kong has never been evacuated due to hurricanes and yet it gets though unscathed.

edited 30th Oct '12 1:38:29 PM by IraTheSquire

Hong Kong is mountainous, right? New Orleans is below sea level and is also below the level of a lake. It's basically a gigantic bowl bordering a gigantic lake and the Gulf of Mexico as well as being the delta of the Mississippi river. New Orleans would've gone unscathed if it weren't for one of the levees breaking that caused others to break due to stress if I remember correctly. Those levees had survived a previous Category-5 hurricane in the early 70s, so it was assumed that they would have held up since they were built to withstand hurricanes greater than category 5.

Yep: New Orleans elevation. That dark blue is where the city is.◊ Hong Kong.◊

edited 30th Oct '12 1:54:05 PM by Completion

So guys, I heard people have already died due to the hurricane. How did that happen?

The only one that I know of is that a man died when a tree fell on his house. Not sure about the others.

Well, I am sure there should be some sort of alarm system tha warns people if its about to get specially bad, and good evacuation plans and what not. After all, it IS the US.

Not everyone can get out in time. Or they underestimated how safe they were in certain areas. Or just unpredictable accidents that resulted from the storm. Or just people just flat out didn't want to get away to safety.

I am so thankful I live where I live. The damage looks horrible. All we have is extreme winds, though they say north Georgia might get flurries.