Hurricane Sandy

**Bregor** · 2012-10-29 22:50

Originally Posted by Cail

Queens Beach 129 St. Bn-47 has a fully involved church.

god's pissed

More importantly, Pete Venkman's pissed.

**Salodin** · 2012-10-29 22:51

Oyster Creek.

USA gonna show Japan how you run a fucking Nuclear Power Plant.

**Cail** · 2012-10-29 22:51

FDNY Incidents ‏@FDNYIncidents

Beach 207 St in Breezy TL-124 is reporting he has 2 full blocks of houses on fire.

**Headspace** · 2012-10-29 22:51

holy shit this is cray

**Salodin** · 2012-10-29 22:53

Why power was not shut down I don't know. So much damage could have been avoided if they hit the big red button the second reports came in of transformers blowing up in town.

**Sho** · 2012-10-29 22:56

Originally Posted by Salodin

Why power was not shut down I don't know. So much damage could have been avoided if they hit the big red button the second reports came in of transformers blowing up in town.

Like I said, people didn't take this storm seriously. At least now with the advent of Twitter the NYC area officials might be better prepared next time. To be honest, it took Hurricane Katrina clipping the shit out of Houston before they got disaster prepared as well. Hurricane Rita and Ike did much less damage over all because of it.

**Headspace** · 2012-10-29 22:56

Originally Posted by Bregor

Oh Romney, you crazy dog, you. No amount of magic underwear will help you now.

no one will think anything of it.

**Omniyoji** · 2012-10-29 22:56

Originally Posted by Sho

And niggas thought this storm wasn't goin to be shit.

Seriously, I thought this was just some other storm but damn shit is all upside down overthere. Hope you East Coast BG'ers are doing okays

**FNH** · 2012-10-29 22:57

update from Associated Press on some of the states affected:

Carolinas
US Coast Guard rescues 14 members of HMS Bounty crew. One crew member believed killed and the captain missing from the tall ship.
Connecticut
Power outages: 381,906. One person killed by falling tree. Most schools to be closed Tuesday along with University of Connecticut.
Delaware
Power outages: 32,000. Dover Air Force Base being cleared of some aircraft and set up as a disaster response centre.
Kentucky
Power outages: 50,000. Up to 10 inches could fall in some high areas, a few inches on lower ground. Power crews coming in from Canada to help.
Massachusetts
Power outages: 400,000. Mandatory evacuations ordered in sections of Dartmouth and Fall River. Voluntary warnings in some other areas.
Michigan
Power outages: 23,000
New Hampshire
Power outages: 100,000. 100 New Hampshire Guard soldiers on active duty. At least 13 shelters opened.
New Jersey
Power outages: 1.6 million. Widespread flooding and damage. Two people killed when a tree landed on their vehicle. Newark Liberty airport shut down until further notice.
New York
Power outages: 1.13m due to flood damage and deliberate blackouts to avoid damage. Some floodwater entering subway. Across the state, at least five people killed. All airports closed until further notice.
Pennsylvania
Power outages: 640,000. A man died Sunday in Lancaster County when he fell while trimming a tree.
Virginia
Power outages: 123,460
West Virginia
Woman killed in road crash after five inches of snow. Conditions expected to be at their worst overnight and early Tuesday before the storm moves on.

**Soa** · 2012-10-29 22:58

I feel lucky as hell right now since its basically been a normal rain storm here in Philly. I still have power and so do several people I know around the region, and all I have is a tiny puddle in my basement that frequently leaks.

**Cail** · 2012-10-29 22:59

firefighter in CT killed, believe it was in Easton. didnt catch what happened, but it was storm related

**Salodin** · 2012-10-29 22:59

Originally Posted by Sho

Like I said, people didn't take this storm seriously. At least now with the advent of Twitter the NYC area officials might be better prepared next time. To be honest, it took Hurricane Katrina clipping the shit out of Houston before they got disaster prepared as well.

I'll admit I underestimated the storm, seeing as the last 5 hurricanes were over exaggerated; but damn the second some one on a walkie talkie said "Transformers" and "Exploding" in the same sentence, I would have hit the big red button with out haste. Niggas be stupid.

**FNH** · 2012-10-29 23:00

Coming into PA, as a weatherman is reporting the barometer is dropping quickly

**Viq** · 2012-10-29 23:01

Originally Posted by FNH

update from Associated Press on some of the states affected:

Even the AP forgets RI exists >_<

**FNH** · 2012-10-29 23:01

Originally Posted by Cail

firefighter in CT killed, believe it was in Easton. didnt catch what happened, but it was storm related

tree fell on the fire engine is what was reported about an hour ago, couldnt find any other info so I didnt report

**Qalbert** · 2012-10-29 23:01

not sandy but: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...89T04I20121030
nother quake

**FNH** · 2012-10-29 23:02

Originally Posted by Viq

Even the AP forgets RI exists >_<

likely lack of reporting, bulk of info only coming from NY. NJ has been out of the loop since it made landfall, can't find much from them. Other states are just getting it so they are still reporting.

**6souls** · 2012-10-29 23:04

Reports of over 10,000 calls to 911 in the last 30 minutes -WeatherChannel

https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/sta...28481519509504

Rising water threatened the cooling system at the Oyster Creek nuclear plant, in Toms River, N.J., on Monday night. The plant declared an alert at 8:45 p.m., which is the second-lowest level of the four-tier emergency scale established by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The water level was more than six feet above normal. At seven feet, the plant would lose the ability to cool its spent fuel pool in the normal fashion, according to Neil Sheehan, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The plant would probably have to switch to using fire hoses to pump in extra water to make up for evaporation, Mr. Sheehan said, because it could no longer pull water out of Barnegat Bay and circulate it through a heat exchanger, to cool the water in the pool.

If ordinary cooling ceased, the pool would take 25 hours to reach the boiling point, he said, giving the operators ample time to take corrective steps. The reactor itself has been shut since Oct. 22 for refueling, so it is relatively cool.

Alerts are declared a handful of times every year among the 104 power reactors around the country.

So far, no reactors in Sandy’s path have been forced by the hurricane to shut down, although one in Waterford, Conn., Millstone 3, has lowered its power output to 75 percent. The operator said this was done to assist the New England grid, which would be destabilized if the reactor shut down suddenly from full power, and also to reduce the chance that it would automatically shut down; at 75 percent, Millstone 3 could withstand the loss of a pump without having to close.

Several other reactors in the region are now closed for refueling, which is ordinarily carried out in the spring or fall, when electricity demand is low.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...#sha=a0eb0cdfc

**RKenshin** · 2012-10-29 23:06

RI has been surprisingly calm. I know there were quite a few outages, but aside from it seems like it'll end up being less damage than Irene.

**Viq** · 2012-10-29 23:07

Originally Posted by RKenshin

RI has been surprisingly calm. I know there were quite a few outages, but aside from it seems like it'll end up being less damage than Irene.

But we had the first reported murder during the storm!

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