ATL: SANDY - Remnants - Discussion

[Terry]

From Tri-State Weather:
Numerous maydays being called by the New York City Fire Department on Coney Island. The whole island is reportedly submerged. Battalion 41 says no more FDNY personnel will respond to the island.

[GoneBabyGone]

Mother Jones ‏@MotherJones
Massive flooding in Lower Manhattan. Fires in subway tunnels. ALL RESIDENTS ordered inside. Stay Safe NYC, we love you. #sandy

[windnrain]

13.72...

Are we going to break 14?

[BobHarlem]

Bellevue hospital can't get the generators running, 2 ft water in the basement -- FDNY scanner #Sandy

[FrontRunner]

A couple friends of mine who live in the Murray Hill area of Manhattan just posted on their Facebook walls that they lost power. This is a pic one of them posted:

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[SunnyThoughts]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10101402330659943 video from facebook of the flooding

[KBBOCA]

A pic in the Wunderground comments showing the lights out in lowerManhattan

[SouthernBreeze]

Report: Mantoloking Bridge taken out by floating house

Ocean County Administrator Carl W. Block said county officials believe a house has floated into the Mantoloking Bridge. 'We believe that to be the case,' Block said. He said county officials are heading to the area now to assess the situation.

http://www.app.com

[Texas Snowman]

Just crazy to wrap my head around that we are witnessing the worst storm in NYC in over 200 years. It's not just NYC though, the entire NE is getting destroyed. I can only imagine the areas being hardest hit are unable to be reached at this time by rescue teams as well as the media. Daybreak tomorrow will be scary.

Yeah, I remember Shepherd Smith on Bourbon Street saying New Orleans had dodged a bullet from Katrina. But as he was saying that, levees were breeching and people were starting to die.

I've been wondering all evening how bad this will be in terms of death and destruction. Hopefully not as bad as Katrina but probably much worse than Ike.

[windnrain]

It is official...

The Battery Tunnel is not all that is getting water.

The Subway systems have been hit, water is rushing into them.

[millerm277]

Bellevue hospital can't get the generators running, 2 ft water in the basement -- FDNY scanner #Sandy

As a note, they updated that they did get the generators/emergency lighting working, but they couldn't get the pump working and to send more pumps over. (unclear if it meant there was only one pump, or if one of multiple pumps isn't working). Source: FDNY Radio.

[ROCK]

this is getting worse by the minute!! sheesh

[jlauderdal]

Confirmation on CNN...

Subways are flooding...

The NHC will NOT report on the "post trypical cyclone" f/k/a HURRICANE SANDY past 11:00 pm; the hydrometeorology reports begin at 5:00 am tomorrow. Where, pray tell, are citizens to obtain updates other than media outlets during the gap? The terminology police will not assist public awareness of the danger.

http://www.weather.gov/

[Hey Its Me]

Full blackout in Southern Manhattan (for those w/o backup generators). conEdison affected customers jumps to ~285K. Although this number is clearly lagging about 30min+ behind.

Sky cam confirms! Have a look:

http://new.livestream.com/breakinglivenowdirect/sandycam?&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=follow&utm_campaign=breakinglivenowdirect&utm_content=sandycam






http://apps.coned.com/stormcenter_external/default.html

[MaryEllen71]

I'm in the Detroit area and we have a wind advisory.

[Terry]

Cars under water Ave C 14th Street NYC

[KBBOCA]

From the @WSJWeather twitter:

Town of Islip official: A rescue vehicle was lost (overturned) en route to a rescue on Fire Island (via 1010 wins)

[NOTE: Fire Island had mandatory evacuations... sigh]

[cycloneye]

POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE SANDY TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL182012
900 PM EDT MON OCT 29 2012

...HURRICANE FORCE WINDS GUSTS REPORTED OVER LONG ISLAND AND THE NEW
YORK METROPOLITAN AREAS...

SUMMARY OF 900 PM EDT...0100 UTC...INFORMATION
----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...39.6N 74.6W
ABOUT 15 MI...24 KM NW OF ATLANTIC CITY NEW JERSEY
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...80 MPH...130 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...WNW OR 300 DEGREES AT 21 MPH...33 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...947 MB...27.96 INCHES

NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE TIDE GAUGES HAVE RECENTLY REPORTED STORM
TIDE HEIGHT...THE COMBINATION OF STORM SURGE AND TIDE RELATIVE TO
MEAN LOWER LOW WATER...OF 13.3 FEET AT KINGS POINT NEW YORK...13.7
FEET AT THE BATTERY NEW YORK...AND 13.3 FEET AT SANDY HOOK NEW
JERSEY.

A WIND GUST TO 79 MPH WAS REPORTED AT JFK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN
NEW YORK. A WIND GUST TO 90 MPH WAS REPORTED EARLIER THIS EVENING
AT ISLIP NEW YORK.

NHC WILL ISSUE ITS LAST ADVISORY ON SANDY AT 1100 PM EDT. THE
HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER...HPC...WILL BEGIN ISSUING
PUBLIC ADVISORIES AT 500 AM EDT TUESDAY. HPC PUBLIC ADVISORIES WILL
BE ISSUED UNDER THE SAME WMO AND AWIPS HEADERS AS THE NHC PUBLIC
ADVISORIES...AND WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE VIA THE NHC WEBSITE.

$$
FORECASTER BROWN/ROBERTS

[gpickett00]

Please give a source of some sort, even if it's unofficial like, "I heard on CNN"

[Cyclenall]

It appears we are witnessing a catastrophic disaster unfolding right before us!! Can't believe some of the reports rolling in, total chaos at this point.

I still have power where I'm at but winds starting to pick up with some gusts.