Hurricane Sandy

cartell_best · 29-10-2012 11:19pm

They are getting some battering at the mo. We complain and moan (well I do) about a wee bit of a flood and dodgy roads because of bad weather. Looking at CNN and Sky News, jesus, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Weather seems to be the one power that can bring the US to its knees and at a standstill. I hope that they see it through..Too many people exposed to the natural elements of such a threat. No-one deserves it...

Dangerous Man · 29-10-2012 11:23pm

Google have a crisis map with a bunch of info if anybody needs it or is worried about family abroad.

It's here: http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy

Witchie · 30-10-2012 1:08am

How come there are still some people out on the streets. Get indoors idiots!

Really starting to worry bout my family and friends over there as it seems to be really starting to hit hard now.

Paully D · 30-10-2012 1:17am

This lad is mental :pac:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/liveblog/files/2012/10/original.gif

30-10-2012 1:23am

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Its currently 5.55pm in New York. Take a look at this live webcam of Times Square.

Its dead. No thousands of people walking the streets no rush hour traffic. Still the odd person out tho.

It's like GTA IV. Nothing but a few taxis and police cars, and not too much traffic at once.

Run_to_da_hills · 30-10-2012 1:25am

Fresh pics from NJ.

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

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

PizzamanIRL · 30-10-2012 1:27am

http://iwitness.weather.com/_Flood-on-Ave-C-14th-Street-NYC/photo/17928387/148597.html

Hope he's OK but WTF is he doing outside.

grizzly · 30-10-2012 1:29am

Could this be Gods anger? We can never be sure!

Mr.Crinklewood · 30-10-2012 1:34am

grizzly wrote: »

Could this be Gods anger? We can never be sure!

Not Gods, but Allahs.

Kerrydude1981 · 30-10-2012 1:39am

The reporters on CNN are really earning their money tonight,they had one lad trying to do an interview in the shade of a jeep earlier on,two of them standing there and one of them had trouble in even standing still let alone trying to talk into a microphone.

Witchie · 30-10-2012 1:47am

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

Skid · 30-10-2012 1:49am

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 · 30-10-2012 1:52am

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

Witchie · 30-10-2012 1:52am

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 · 30-10-2012 2:01am

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 · 30-10-2012 2:02am

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 · 30-10-2012 2:09am

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 · 30-10-2012 2:17am

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 · 30-10-2012 2:20am

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 · 30-10-2012 2:21am

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

jd007 · 30-10-2012 2:26am

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 · 30-10-2012 2:30am

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 · 30-10-2012 2:40am

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 · 30-10-2012 2:43am

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 · 30-10-2012 2:45am

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

Witchie · 30-10-2012 2:47am

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 · 30-10-2012 2:56am

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 · 30-10-2012 2:57am

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.