Hurricane Sandy

Witchie

Yeah the CNN ones are mad! Watching the girl in red up to her knees in water and still working away. Fair play!

Skid

Witchie wrote: »

Yeah the CNN ones are mad! Watching the girl in red up to her knees in water and still working away. Fair play!

If it's that bad they should get out of there. Not going to help anyone if the Emergency Services have to go and rescue them.

News Reporters seem to think they are invincible, at some point you have to put down the camera.

Max Power

Hope Chandler, Ross, Joey, Monica, Phoebe and Rachel will be okay.

Witchie

True but they must have a limit set and are aware of the dangers. Am sure when they think it will become seriously dangerous they will get her out of there.

Corkfeen

I've spent most of my evening watching it, something fascinating about extreme weather. Hope they don't get hit too badly and good luck to boardsies that our stateside.

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

He may not have organised it but he will certainly hijack it.

Sort of like how you hijacked this event for your agenda? You are making absolutely absurd claims....

B.A._Baracus

Skid wrote: »

If it's that bad they should get out of there. Not going to help anyone if the Emergency Services have to go and rescue them.

News Reporters seem to think they are invincible, at some point you have to put down the camera.

Its sadly the nature of news reporting, or to be more accurate american news reporting.
Things "look better" & reports engage viewers better if for example a reporter is knee deep in a flood rather than being 8 miles away from any danger.

Its the nature of the game. Sure, why would any reporter also goto a warzone too. But the reality of things are that while in the shot it looks bad ... it aint as bad as where the shot could of been taken. Kinda like "get in, shoot, get out" type of deal.

B.A._Baracus

01:06am Sky News are reporting about how a crane, a crane thats on top of a high rise construction building in New York, has collapsed. Not fully off the bulding. But its arm has collapsed and is swaying.

Hazys

A good portion of Manhattan is in darkness now....its coming my way over night but should mostly stay out in western mass tho

B.A._Baracus

Hope mods don't have an issue with me just posting updates


01:17am Alot of New York is without power. Images have been taken of New York's famous skyline/buildings showing no power.

01:19am A power station has gone down. They are trying to use diesel generators to get it back up.

Witchie

You can listen in to the emergency services HERE if you so wish.

jd007

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Fresh pics from NJ.

A shark in someone's front garden. :eek:

http://www.sun-gazing.com/

Was it a nuclear shark?

Hazys

Almost 400,000 people is Massachusetts without electricity this evening with Sandy approaching...so far the majority of the city of Boston has been unaffected tho

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/10/29/outer-edges-hurricane-sandy-are-bringing-high-winds-and-rains-today-but-worse-still-come/Q9xxjXy0lsXcVzUKT49CkJ/story.html

Lapin

That Irish woman just interviewed on Sky News didn't get her accent in the hills of Donegal or the plains of Kildare, thats for sure.

Skid

Lapin wrote: »

That Irish woman just interviewed on Sky News didn't get her accent in the hills of Donegal or the plains of Kildare, thats for sure.

That was like, Katie van Buren from, like, RTE's kids programmes.

Hazys

3 feet of water on the floor of the NYSE...defly closed tomorrow, most likely longer...crazy

Witchie

God just heard over the emergency radio one of the guys calling for power to be cut off in the area he is in coz there were loads of buildings with smoke coming out of them and people out on the streets.

Nitemare stuff. :-(

hairyprincess

A lot of reports on Facebook of buildings being on fire, some with people in them, around Rockaway.

God love the emergency services, they have some job.

Da Shins Kelly

Hope nothing too bad comes of it. A guy I'm friends with on Facebook who is in the US put up a status saying he was heading east "just to see what a hurricane really looks like". Madness.

Wacker The Attacker

You cant beat a nice bit of an aul hurricane

RebelSoul

Reports on the internet of transformers exploding. Read one that said a hospital was struggling to start up its back up generators.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqYZ433TeQ

Explosion starts at 18s

Then a whole lot of nothing.

Bigger explosions at 3:08

Wacker The Attacker

RebelSoul wrote: »

Reports on the internet of transformers exploding. Read one that said a hospital was struggling to start up its back up generators.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqYZ433TeQ

Its about 4:04 too long

refusetolose

looks bad alright

Fuh Q

2 deaths in New Jersey, 1 in Connecticut, 1 in West Virginia, 1 off NC coast, in addition to 5 deaths in NY

Witchie

Just read about a woman getting electrocuted in a puddle. Why are people going outside?????

areyawell

Witchie wrote: »

Just read about a woman getting electrocuted in a puddle. Why are people going outside?????

Some people arn't even evacuating even though given 100 wanings to do. Stupid Americans

FatherTed

I've lost power 3 times so far here in Connecticut but the utility company has gotten us restored quickly. But a tree has landed in a neighbours bathroom and another landed on their patio. It's.going to be a long night.

Spread

Hazys wrote: »

3 feet of water on the floor of the NYSE...defly closed tomorrow, most likely longer...crazy

That has just been scotched in breaking news

Witchie

FatherTed wrote: »

I've lost power 3 times so far here in Connecticut but the utility company has gotten us restored quickly. But a tree has landed in a neighbours bathroom and another landed on their patio. It's.going to be a long night.

You poor thing. I cant imagine how scary it must be, especially for those trying to keep calm for the sake of young children and trying to make it out like it is a bit of fun for their sakes.

Hearing a lot of fires including possibly Coney Island Hospital.

ProudDUB

areyawell wrote: »

Some people arn't even evacuating even though given 100 wanings to do. Stupid Americans

I'd like to see how well 300,000 Irish people would take to being told that they had to get the heck out of Dodge. It would be a train wreak of epic proportions. Not everyone has the physical or financial ability to evacuate, or has somewhere safe to go.

Blacked out NYC skyline;





Bit weird looking.

Hazys

areyawell wrote: »

Some people arn't even evacuating even though given 100 wanings to do. Stupid Americans

Pretty ignorant post. People act the same everywhere in the world, its a natural reaction "it won't happen to me and i'm safer in my own home".

asherbassad

Fuh Q wrote: »

2 deaths in New Jersey, 1 in Connecticut, 1 in West Virginia, 1 off NC coast, in addition to 5 deaths in NY

So how many deaths are there normally in Jersey, Connecticut and NYC?

What a washout ....I was expecting this thing to bang around for 24 hours. Long Island got a few power cuts and a spot of flooding and that was it. What a friggin' gyp.

B.A._Baracus

from what Sky news are saying... the "stormy" conditions in New York are over. But next comes heavy snow etc.

Pj!

asherbassad wrote: »

So how many deaths are there normally in Jersey, Connecticut and NYC?

What a washout ....I was expecting this thing to bang around for 24 hours. Long Island got a few power cuts and a spot of flooding and that was it. What a friggin' gyp.

This is not a film mate...

stupidfishy

asherbassad wrote: »

So how many deaths are there normally in Jersey, Connecticut and NYC?

What a washout ....I was expecting this thing to bang around for 24 hours. Long Island got a few power cuts and a spot of flooding and that was it. What a friggin' gyp.

Sorry, we're fresh outta troll food.

B.A._Baracus

Sky News reports New York 911 services are recieving 10,000 calls per half an hour :eek:

Hazys

When it rains, it pours snows.

Blizzards in Maryland :eek:

The same early blizzards we got in Boston last year around Halloween.

Witchie

Just heard that 100s of people in a commercial building that was on fire and having to go out into water on the street. Really a fecked up nite over there.

asherbassad

Pj! wrote: »

This is not a film mate...

Bet you were glued to the TV with popcorn and pepsi for the bombing of Baghdad though. More than 5 died and more than a few trees were uprooted during that "movie"

Pj!

asherbassad wrote: »

Bet you were glued to the TV with popcorn and pepsi for the bombing of Baghdad though. More than 5 died and more than a few trees were uprooted during that "movie"

Go to bed

K-9

asherbassad wrote: »

Bet you were glued to the TV with popcorn and pepsi for the bombing of Baghdad though. More than 5 died and more than a few trees were uprooted during that "movie"

Way off topic, don't post in this thread again.

opinion guy

Apparently some huge explosion at a powerplant in Manhattan (according to bbc live feed)
youtube vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqYZ433TeQ

:eek::eek:

Soby

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/253181_461455220564776_877008259_n.jpg

B.A._Baracus

03.35am Sky News reports at least 12 killed in US and Canada.

Sad.

Soby

areyawell wrote: »

Some people arn't even evacuating even though given 100 wanings to do. Stupid Americans

Don't be a idiot , some people are elderly some people have no transport , there are circumstances , but yes there are probably those strong stubborn people staying at home , doesn't make them stupid

asherbassad

K-9 wrote: »

Way off topic, don't post in this thread again.

You're right. Not a peep about the 60+ dead in the Caribbean (which isn't "off topic") until the casinos of Atlantic City and some blue-bloods' pads in The Hamptons suffer a power outage.

Bring on the ban.

BTW, 12 killed in Lahore bombing.

Soby

All sky news are going on about now is the campaign and politics , push it back a week or two and concentrate on the welfare and safety of the american people

Witchie

asherbassad wrote: »

You're right. Not a peep about the 60+ dead in the Caribbean (which isn't "off topic") until the casinos of Atlantic City and some blue-bloods' pads in The Hamptons suffer a power outage.

Bring on the ban.

BTW, 12 killed in Lahore bombing.

Very sad to hear that.

But:

1. There has been mention of those killed in the Carribbean.

2. Its not just some casinos and hamptons pads that are being affected.....60 million people are in the path of this storm including some people I love so am glad it is getting the coverage it needs.

B.A._Baracus

Soby wrote: »

All sky news are going on about now is the campaign and politics , push it back a week or two and concentrate on the welfare and safety of the american people

You read my mind exactly.
I mean, two hours ago the storm was hitting. Now its also about the next president


It really does make you cynical about the news. Now that the storm has passed New York - Move onto someone else. But of course, splicing the damage in between.

asherbassad

Witchie wrote: »

Very sad to hear that.

But:

1. There has been mention of those killed in the Carribbean.

2. Its not just some casinos and hamptons pads that are being affected.....60 million people are in the path of this storm including some people I love so am glad it is getting the coverage it needs.

Just heard now that East Side Medical Centre backup generators have failed and they are carrying babies down stairs. Now that is just pathetic. How much time was given for this storm and even if it wasn't enough time who is/was responsible for a hospital's backup power?
In MANHATTAN?

Would this happen in Cuba?

That great quote comes to mind "You're doing a helluva job, Brownie."