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Hurricane Sandy

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    #152
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    04:04am New York University Hospital is without power and its back-up generator has failed :(


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    #153
    asherbassad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭asherbassad


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    04:04am New York University Hospital is without power and its back-up generator has failed :(


    Like I said...pathetic.

    Not a single backup generator to Wall Street's accounting systems will have failed but a hospital......not as important.


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    #154
    MadsL
    Registered Users Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    asherbassad wrote: »
    Bring on the ban.

    With luck, it will be permanent and site wide.


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    #155
    asherbassad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭asherbassad


    MadsL wrote: »
    With luck, it will be permanent and site wide.

    And why would you say that? Have I said something hurtful? Illegal? Inappropriate?
    Of have I just pointed out shallowness and you don't like it?

    In other news.....another thousand women were raped today in the last 4 hours in the East Coast of the US.


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    #156
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,045 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I have been watching the 24/7 news all night, and I am thinking this was a little bit of an anti-climax.

    Of course that didn't stop the news stations hyping it up like it was Judgement Day.


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    #157
    MadsL
    Registered Users Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    asherbassad wrote: »
    And why would you say that? Have I said something hurtful? Illegal? Inappropriate?
    Of have I just pointed out shallowness and you don't like it?

    In other news.....another thousand women were raped today in the last 4 hours in the East Coast of the US.


    You will find any excuse. Any excuse to ride your little hobbyhorse.

    Hurtful - yes to people who know people in the path of this hurricane.
    Illegal - in breach of the charter and mod instruction, yes.
    Inappropriate - If you really cannot understand why your comments are inappropriate I suggest you have someone explain it to you slowly.

    The shallowness is your inability to conceive of Americans as anything more than a cartoon of your own imagining.


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    #158
    K-9
    Registered Users Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    asherbassad wrote: »
    Bring on the ban.

    Dealt with, others can stop giving him oxygen now.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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    #159
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    US nuclear plant declares "alert" after Sandy storm surge-NRC

    Exelon Corp declared an "alert" at its New Jersey Oyster Creek nuclear power plant due to a record storm surge, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said on Monday, warning that a further rise in water levels could force operators to use emergency water supplies from a fire hose to cool spent uranium fuel rods.

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/10/30/storm-sandy-exelon-oystercreek-idUKL3E8LU1S120121030


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    #160
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 5,148 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    How are people joking about this? Just because it's a faceless force killing people and not some sick serial killer.


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    #161
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    A dam is after breaking in New Jersey,rescues going on in three NJ towns


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    #162
    [Deleted User]
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    US nuclear plant declares "alert" after Sandy storm surge-NRC

    Exelon Corp declared an "alert" at its New Jersey Oyster Creek nuclear power plant due to a record storm surge, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said on Monday, warning that a further rise in water levels could force operators to use emergency water supplies from a fire hose to cool spent uranium fuel rods.

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/10/30/storm-sandy-exelon-oystercreek-idUKL3E8LU1S120121030

    I'm guessing later that when they say nothing happened you'll use this alert as evidence of a meltdown?


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    #163
    OurLadyofKnock
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    SANDY UPDATE: A CNN newreader is standing in front of a projection screen in Atlanta howling in demented convulsions as images of a few inches of choppy water near some buildings came in.


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    #164
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    CNN now reporting that 50 homes have been burnt to the ground in Queens


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    #165
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    14 people reported dead, maybe more.
    Nuclear alert.
    Power Station fire
    Four buildings collapse
    Tower fire persons rescued
    River rescues numerous
    Beach house cut off by tide burn to the ground
    Hospital evacuate 200 patients as power fails
    Evacuation centre evacuated as it floods
    Tunnels flooded
    Subway flooded
    Numerous tress down [with deaths]
    Stock Exchange won't open today
    Highest floods on record
    Ship sunk
    Roads washed away
    Airports closed
    911 system overwhelmed
    Many roads closed
    Partial collapse debris unsafe
    Cold and snow to follow


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    #166
    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,722 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    gbee wrote: »
    14 people reported dead, maybe more.
    Nuclear alert.
    Power Station fire
    Four buildings collapse
    Tower fire persons rescued
    River rescues numerous
    Beach house cut oof by tide burn to the ground
    Hospital evacuate 200 patients as power fails
    Evacuation centre evacuated as it floods
    Tunnels flooded
    Subway flooded
    Numerous tress down [with deaths]
    Stock Exchange won't open today
    Highest floods on record
    Ship sunk
    Roads washed away
    Airports closed
    911 system overwhelmed
    Many roads closed
    Partial collapse debris unsafe
    Cold and snow to follow

    And if only the cyclist had insurance and a number plate this wouldn't have happened! ;) Sorry i had to add that!


    Its like watching a movie all that is happening over there, hopefully the number of lives lost isn't going to get out of hand.


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    #167
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    gbee wrote: »
    14 people reported dead, maybe more.
    Nuclear alert.
    Power Station fire
    Four buildings collapse
    Tower fire persons rescued
    River rescues numerous
    Beach house cut off by tide burn to the ground
    Hospital evacuate 200 patients as power fails
    Evacuation centre evacuated as it floods
    Tunnels flooded
    Subway flooded
    Numerous tress down [with deaths]
    Stock Exchange won't open today
    Highest floods on record
    Ship sunk
    Roads washed away
    Airports closed
    911 system overwhelmed
    Many roads closed
    Partial collapse debris unsafe
    Cold and snow to follow


    Its like a Superman movie plot except without Superman :(


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    #168
    OurLadyofKnock
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 558 ✭✭✭OurLadyofKnock


    Someone I know did a tarot card reading yesterday concerning the fate of New York - just for experiment sake. The card they got was The Moon. Which is a full moon drawing up water from the sea with towers and nightmare scenes during a night of hysteria.

    Means nothing of course - but still interesting.

    http://www.tarot-card.net/tarot-cards/images/moon.jpg


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    #169
    OurLadyofKnock
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 558 ✭✭✭OurLadyofKnock


    Shark swinning up a New York street.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f77bJJ_o_M0


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    #170
    SlipperyPeople
    Registered Users Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭SlipperyPeople


    nice i was a shark for halloween


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    #171
    Pal
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    I was in New York for Hurricane Gloria in 1985.
    The American media was ridiculous at the time.
    They overreact on a scale you just cannot comprehend.

    The storm wasn't so bad at all.
    You just had to stay indoors and hope not to be the unlucky one affected by a power cut.


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    #172
    chopperbyrne
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    Pal wrote: »
    I was in New York for Hurricane Gloria in 1985.
    The American media was ridiculous at the time.
    They overreact on a scale you just cannot comprehend.

    The storm wasn't so bad at all.
    You just had to stay indoors and hope not to be the unlucky one affected by a power cut.

    They're not overreacting this time though.


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    #173
    books4sale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭books4sale


    WTF? This is so dumb!

    Who brings a Tall Ship out into the middle of a class 1 hurricane?

    The crew had to jump ship, were rescued but one member still missing.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp=42979117&#49602929


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    #174
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    books4sale wrote: »
    WTF? This is so dumb!

    Who brings a Tall Ship out into the middle of a class 1 hurricane?

    The crew had to jump ship, were rescued but one member still missing.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp=42979117�

    Just seen that as well,mental stuff.


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    #175
    Spread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Spread


    Locally just a few trees down. Rain still lashing but an eerie calm. You've got to feel sorry for those in the thick of it and for families who've lost someone. What looks like hype is in fact not. A huge area is condensed into your living room's TV and news being news - they show what is newsworthy.


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    #176
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    chopperbyrne wrote: »
    They're not overreacting this time though.
    What? :p

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8slEPV9LyS0


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    #177
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20121635

    Anyone got a summary of live streams I can throw up on the OP?


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    #178
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    What? :p

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8slEPV9LyS0

    hilarious. ankle deep - we get this every year in Ireland. :D


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    #179
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    Have they never seen a bit of rain before??


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    #180
    saiint
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭saiint


    american news should come to ireland
    theyd have storys everyday
    Its raining
    The weather has calmed down roads flooded
    oh wait its starting to rain again
    the sun is back out roads still flooded
    its now snowing


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    #181
    Witchie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    50 houses destroyed in a fire in Queens. Its not been a good nite. :-(


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