Big Jims Videos Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 and this just in from my friend on fire and rescue in Toms River area: water rescues STILL ongoing in Ocean County. Many more people trapped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisy Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 My grandfather has a friend in LBI. He said it was the scariest night of his life. He's got feet of water still around his home, no where to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaoPos Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Horror stories from Staten Island: http://mobile.silive.com/advstaten/pm_29251/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=pQ22DpMR Terrible. Have immediate family living up in New Brighton section. They escaped the worst of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQPublic Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Just walked the UWS in a box around 94 to 81, along CPW and Riverside Drive. Can't stress enough again how lucky we are. Mostly relatively light tree damage. Some big ones down along CPW, but generally speaking it doesn't look like a disaster inside the Park. I'm sure there are plenty of trees down, but the Park will still look the same when they clean it up. Given that resources need to be put towards residential neighborhoods, it makes sense to keep it closed and delay opening it. Has to put the Marathon in question for the weekend for that reason alone. In walking the neighborhood, it was easier to see why I felt so little of the wind during the storm. We are about as sheltered as possible from a NE wind. The cross streets in Manhattan run ESE to WNW. We face south, and we are at the Western end of a long block, so any NE wind basically blows from behind us. My car was parked near CPW and 94th, exposed to the NE wind and a tree fell ten feet from it. Glad to see the park seemed to fair ok! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthNJwx Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 March 1962 Nor'easter had some epic damage at the Jersey Shore, but nothing like this... Hold that thought - http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/features/f6/storm-of-long-beach-island/collection_3abe0c84-64b1-11e1-9b6c-0019bb2963f4.html. I don't think people realize how incredibly bad that was. This is definitely the worst since then. Is it worse? I'm not sure, though I don't think comparisons like that are important. Worse in some places, not as bad in others, etc. - obviously both storms with coastal impacts I think we can all agree we hope to never see again. Terrible images coming out of this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sojitodd Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Breezy point fire: That area looks incredibly densely built up for a single family home area-almost looks third world in that sense alone. Do many of these people drive-and if so where do they park? (I am just totally unfamiliar with this type of area of NYC. Also at the very bottom of the pic it looks like some of the houses are a bit askew and one looks possibly collapsed-would that be from the surge? How many people evacuated this area. Damn that fire looks like something out of Japan or something given the density of wooden houses. Did anyone die in this fire? Just astounded and curious about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plokoon111 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Man I feel for all you guys. So much devastation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 FInally after sorting through a lot of crap and fake videos I found one showing something more like a hurricane condition (Jersey City): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvm0B1KhV98 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Breezy point fire: Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaoPos Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/ex-fema-director-michael-brown-criticizes-obama-reacting-202803013.html Smh... Said Obama responded "too quickly" to sandy... What a scumbag, arrogant son of a b**ch.. Ps, same guy who "handled" Katrina as FEMA head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Saw that earlier, Brown is the definition of pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cast4 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 http://news.yahoo.co...-202803013.html Smh... Said Obama responded "too quickly" to sandy... What a scumbag, arrogant son of a b**ch.. Ps, same guy who "handled" Katrina as FEMA head This could easily be an onion article. What a ****ing loser looking for attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocoAko Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 FInally after sorting through a lot of crap and fake videos I found one showing something more like a hurricane condition (Jersey City): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvm0B1KhV98 Yeah, saw this on CNN. Boy what I wouldn't have given to see anything like that back when I lived at home (destruction aside, of course). The guy who took that video lives in a high rise near the waterfront and was trapped on the 7th floor of the building because his lobby was still flooded as of lunchtime today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooL Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 The ferocious winds lasted way too long. It was awesome to see the power but i was getting uncomfortable after a while. There are probably tons of posters here that still dont have power. My friend a few blocks away wont have power until Nov. 5th. That's ridiculous and im lucky Btw, GFS, and other models are signaling a storm threat, maybe wintry, in a week or so. The NAO is just beasting negative right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrOldSchool Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Night 2 without power. Getting chilly in here but I'm bundled up, though I'm not spending another night in here without power. Woke up to a 20' or so tree down in my back yard. Most neighbors have similar damage. Didn't get a chance to explore the town but ill do that tomorrow. Looking at things in here, and knowing how many folks are without power like me, I think I got off easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha5 Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 This still feels so surreal, and I'm not even in the area at the moment. Folks back home say that you pretty much cant drive anywhere because of all the downed lines and trees. They've never seen anything like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
left_gulley Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Not sure if this has been posted, but it seems that many houses closest to the beach in Seaside Heights suffered catastrophic damage: http://www.breakingnews.com/item/ahZzfmJyZWFraW5nbmV3cy13d3ctaHJkcg0LEgRTZWVkGMzatgsM/2012/10/30/video-aerial-view-of-seaside-heights-new-jersey-coastline-after-hur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthNJwx Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Not sure if this has been posted, but it seems that many houses closest to the beach in Seaside Heights suffered catastrophic damage: http://www.breakingn...tline-after-hur Similar in Holgate on the south end of LBI. There are a couple of pictures on this page: http://lbirecovery.tumblr.com/ Some houses have been lost. My grandparents' house is in Holgate, but a bit north of the pics on that site and on the bayside (protected by a marina) with above-average elevation, so it looked fine when I saw it on the aerial shots. My weather station at the house somehow continued to upload data to the internet until about 1:30 am yesterday, so I caught both the front and back sides of the storm. Peak gust of 64 mph, minimum pressure 27.94" - and I had no idea of the destruction that was going on within mere blocks as my updates came into Wunderground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthlight Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Hard to really grasp the damage around the area at the moment. I'm sure we will be talking about this one for the rest of our lives. I had an eerie feeling when going over the 18z NAM soundings with forky around 4-5pm. There was a clearly event moist absolutely unstable layer on the 3-9 hour soundings...and we were dealing with mixing down a 75 knot low level jet...and it was a southeast based low level wind info the harbor at high tide. But it's one of those things where the translation from forecasting , and something you see on data , to real life...and something you see where people are devestated and lives are lost.. is hard to understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntenseBlizzard2014 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Power Outages from Con Ed in NYC/Westchester dropped from 14,188 at 12 AM to 13,784 at 6:30 AM. Nice progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Anybody got some pics of trees down and what not in their neighborhood? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxEngine Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Anybody got some pics of trees down and what not in their neighborhood? Yeah, but nowhere to plug my camera in to upload them . The ones on my phone kinda suck, all i have is one of a tree that destroyed my fence and just missed my shed and pool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weathergun Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 JFK gusted to 85mph. The 12z Bufkit GFS from Saturday, was showing potential gust to 76kt (87mph), Monday night: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billgwx Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I had an eerie feeling when going over the 18z NAM soundings with forky around 4-5pm. There was a clearly event moist absolutely unstable layer on the 3-9 hour soundings...and we were dealing with mixing down a 75 knot low level jet...and it was a southeast based low level wind info the harbor at high tide. Yep. Became a concern when we looked at soundings the day before...and it might have been there on soundings even earlier. The MAUL lived up to its name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mob1 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Anybody got some pics of trees down and what not in their neighborhood? I've got many but have no idea how to post pictures from my phone (windows phone, so a little restricted in terms of flash player) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ag3 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Coned is doing a great job in Queens. My mother-in law, my sister and a good friend all got their power back last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Lizard Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Bore we moved to Texas, my brother used to take the LIRR into Penn Station, make a couple of transfers, and ride the Lexington Avenue line *uptown* to a Jesuit high school near here. This is NOT Lower Manhattan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 JFK wind gust is 79 on the PNS. Where is this 85? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drz1111 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Ed, you've been conned. That's 86th street station IN BROOKLYN. The 86th street station in Mannattan, i.e., the one near Regis, has an entrance b/w 50-100 feet above sea level and was unscathed by the storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunny and Warm Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Yep. Became a concern when we looked at soundings the day before...and it might have been there on soundings even earlier. The MAUL lived up to its name. Is the MAUL similar in any way to the sting jet some have mentioned? Seems both groups of opinions are discussing the same event, so wondering whether people are using different names for the same thing. Also, how unusual is a MAUL, and are they usually associated with a TC event?? Thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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